From: Information Week Second Life CTO Leaves Amid Reports Of Falling Out With CEO Quote from the site - Cory Ondrejka, who was employee #4 at Linden Lab, the company that develops Second Life, either quit Tuesday, or was fired.. As with most high-level corporate departures, his going out the door was marked by a terse, vague statement by his — former — employers, and a great deal of discussion on blogs.

From: Tech Blorge Congressman goes virtual - Second Life to the rescue! Quote from the site - Now your congressman has no excuse not to attend important world summits - not when he can send a virtual avatar in his place. That’s precisely what Rep. Edward Markey did when he found himself unable to escape Congress to go to the Bali Climate Summit, going on from the 3rd to the 14th of December.

From: telecoms Second Lifers get real world phone lines Quote from the site - Inhabitants of Second Life will soon be able to carry out their real world communications from the comfort of the virtual universe.

From: Ambling in Second Life Centric Virtual - plus the Cory Story Quote from the site - It seems like ages since I last blogged about a Dutch site in Second Life, yet once upon a time I couldn’t move without stumbling across a new one. Tonight, however, it is time to redress the balance, with a trip to Centric Virtual. Many folks will associate the word “Centric” with the American marketing agency that specialises in social media and virtual worlds. However, this particular Centric is a Dutch IT firm.

From: Second Life Blog Updated Release Candidate Viewer: Second Life 1.18.6 RC1 Available Today! Quote from the site - Second Life 1.18.6 Viewer Release Candidate (RC1) is now available for download. Please go to the test software page to download and try these pre-production viewers.

From: Greg Laden’s Blog Influential Flying Spaghetti Monster Disciple Resigns from Second Life CTO Position Quote from the site - This just in …

Virtual world Second Life’s chief technology officer … has resigned. Cory Ondrejka… quit Tuesday and will depart at the end of the year.

From: Massively Big business analysts looking more kindly on Second Life once again. Quote from the site - It seems like only yesterday, but I guess it was about 6 months ago, that a lot of big business analysts were saying, in rather more business like language, “OMG what’s all the fuss about Second Life?”

From: Virtually Blind Microgovernment “Extropia” Opens in Second Life; Focus on Creative Expression and Community Quote from the site - Extropia, an ambitious Second Life microgovernment identifying itself as an “independent technocratic city-state,” opened last month. Extropia’s designers hope it stands as an “exemplar of the future we want, today, where technology is used exuberantly in the service of beauty and fun.”

From: Tech Policy Central Rep. Markey’s Second Life Speech Quote from the site - Rep. Ed Markey (D-CA), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, spoke at the United Nations’ climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia today. But instead of making the trip from D.C., he opted to “appear” via Second Life.

From: Associated Press Second Life’s CTO Resigns Quote from the site - Virtual world Second Life’s chief technology officer — a colorful Navy veteran who delights in mocking creationism — has resigned.

Cory Ondrejka, employee No. 4 at San Francisco-based Linden Lab, which owns Second Life, quit Tuesday and will depart at the end of the year.

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From: Second Life Blog Various regions inaccessible at present Quote from the site - [UPDATE 9.22am PST] Continuing to slowly recover from our problem with downed regions. Hopefully you are seeing an improvement in the level of regions you can access.

From: Second Life Art News La Reve Quote from the site - A laudanum induced vision or a Absinthe enabled dream enraptures the mind as La Reeve begins to rez.

From: AFP ‘Avatars’ offer virtual alternative at climate summit Quote from the site - More than 10,000 people are in Bali thrashing out action on global warming, but those who couldn’t make it in person are here virtually — some in the form of dragons and action heroes.

From: Marketing Shift Second Life Not Second Best to Being Live Quote from the site - Second Life is a second skin for companies and individuals to represent themselves online, but it’s a strange technology to use to present before the U.N. But that’s exactly what Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts did.

From: Second Life Blog Knowledge Base Article of the Week: Undo, or undo not. There is no try. Quote from the site - Hello everybody! This week, we’ll take a look at a skill that’s essential to any Second Life Resident’s repertoire: intimate knowledge of the undo function! If you’ve ever used a graphics editor or a word processor, you’re probably familiar with the concept of “undo”.

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