From: The Click Heard Round the World The 48 hour film competition comes to Second Life: is the learning curve too steep? Quote from the site - Catching up on old emails, I see that there is a 48 hour “virtual reality filmmaking” competition coming to Second Life in January. This is good news for both Second Life and the machinima community, potentially attracting new filmmakers and audiences to this cutting-edge artform.

From: Information Week GridTalk On ‘Entrepreneur’s Guide To Second Life’ Rescheduled To Friday Quote from the site - Join us in Second Life Friday for our rescheduled GridTalk with Daniel Terdiman, author of the new book The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Second Life, to learn about the best ways to do business in-world. Daniel’s talk was supposed to happen this morning, but Second Life was down for maintenance, so we rescheduled it.

From: Business Wire The Tech Museum of Innovation’s Second Life Initiative: Revolutionizing the Development of New Museum Exhibitions Quote from the site - The Tech Museum of Innovation (The Tech), one of the nation’s premier science and technology museums, today announced the convergence of technology and art in the virtual world with the launch of The Tech in Second Life. This integration of The Tech in Linden Lab’s Second Life has the potential to revolutionize the development of new museum exhibitions.

From: Game On Castronova Predicts Exodus to Virtual Worlds Quote from the site - I dig Edward Castronova, the guy who wrote a book about the social biz behind the rise of online gaming, and now he’s got a second one out with a provocative thesis.

From: Kansas City Star MIDDLE EAST DIARY: Virtual hajj Quote from the site - It’s hajj season, time for millions of Muslims to converge on the holy city of Mecca in a pilgrimage that’s obligatory for every Muslim at least once. Rituals begin next week, but airports already are packed with white-draped pilgrims and authorities are on high alert in regional transit points.

From: The Telegram The second wave of Second Life Quote from the site - If online worlds collide, some hope for big bang of sales, IBM, Microsoft explore ways to connect Second Life, There, and other virtual spaces.

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From: Valley Wag Linden Labs fires chief technology officer Quote from the site - Looks like all those problems in the big empty known as Second Life — the virtual world’s confounding user interface, poor graphics, and high attrition rate — aren’t going to get fixed anytime soon.

From: Massively Send Christmas cards in Second Life from outside (even without an account!) Quote from the site - Are you a Second Life widow or widower? Do you have the artistic talent of a goose, or are flat broke in Second Life and want to send cards?

From: Massively Cory Ondrejka’s departure in his own words Quote from the site - Shortly after we received Philip Rosedale’s official statement on Cory Ondrejka’s imminent departure from Linden Lab, a source close to Linden Lab passed us a copy of Ondrejka’s internal email about the matter.

From: New World Notes New World Tableau: Porsupah Ree in Chakryn Forest Quote from the site - I recently wrote about the lovely Chakryn Forest of Andrek Lowell, but my screenshots were not taken in a WindLight-enabled viewer. Porsupah took this one with WindLight and, he says, “No post-processing involved other than adding the label text.”

From: Second Life Blog [Resolved]Inventory Failure for Some Residents Quote from the site - Some residents are experiencing inventory failure which includes inability to manipulate objects, failure to load inventory items, ghosted prim, and other agent-inventory related issues.

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From: Business Communicators of Second Life San Jose Tech Museum Opens in Second Life Quote from the site - “The Tech,” as The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose is lovingly called, today launched a virtual replica in Second Life - kind of. The building may look familiar, but the mission is to encourage the re-thinking of museums, exhibits and to explore the next iteration of “the museum.”

From: News.com Cory is Second Life: reader comment from SundogSakai Quote from the site - Business disagreements aside, it is as imposible to remove Cory from Second Life as it would be to extract the DNA of one parent from a child.

From: New World Notes New World Newsfeed: CTO Cory Linden Leaves Quote from the site - The Flying Spaghetti Monster has left the world. Moo Money of Massively.com reported the rumor first, the rumor was further strengthened, then over at CNET, was confirmed yet again: citing irreconcilable differences in the technical development of Second Life, Chief Technical Officer Cory Linden has left the company.

From: Second Life Blog Rolling Restart Beginning at 11:00 AM PST on 12/12/07 Quote from the site - Last night we experienced an intermittent inventory database failure. The database recovered but needs maintenance. This requires us to log out a small number of Residents using that database for a short period of time (30 minutes).

From: Second Life Blog Winter Festival 2007 - Registering Events and Venues Quote from the site - Season’s Greetings, and I hope the day finds you both prosperous and well! You good folks are putting together some extraordinarily festive experiences for one another. (Yes, I’ve been peeking. Please don’t tell my parents.)

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