From: Second Life Herald Empty Position Leads to Linden PR Void Quote from the site - Earlier this week, residents learned of the departure of Cory Ondrejka aka Cory Linden aka SL’s own Flying Spaghetti Monster, from sources as varied as Massively, the recipient of leaked e-mails, to CBS News, which featured an article on Cory’s departure as Chief Technology Officer, to the Herald’s help wanted ads.

From: intute Advent Calendar - A Second Life for Education? Quote from the site - In the run up to the first Intute Staff Conference in Nov 2007 the teams were asked to put together a presentation explaining who they were and what they did. The request came with a rather worrying stipulation; ‘no powerpoint’. A presentation without Powerpoint? What could we do? For my part I decided to make a short film, a machinima film, dealing with the work I had been doing in Second Life.

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From: The Motley Fool 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.

From: Nobody Fugazi’s blog The Future of Financial Regulation By Residents Quote from the site - Even while my main system was down (it is now back up) over the last week or so, I made forays into the grid to check on a few things on the old underpowered laptop - and now that I’m back on stream (with some added horsepower under the hood), its time to get back in gear.

From: The Metaverse Journal World Stock Exchange lays out roadmap and some history Quote from the site - On Friday I received a notecard in Second Life from the World Stock Exchange. It’s a lengthy piece (replicated below) that provides some insights into future plans. It’s also a dogged adherence by WSE to the belief that the whole operation is for entertainment and educational purposes only and that its currency is purely fictional. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again - the so-called fictional Linden currency can be directly converted to US dollars so how does one argue it’s not real?

From: metaversed Join us on Monday for Metanomics With Dr. Yesha Sivan Quote from the site - This coming Monday we will be joined by Dr. Yesha Sivan, founder of Metaverse Labs (MVL). A pioneer and leader of technologies for knowledge infrastructures, Dr. Sivan’s professional experience is in the development of innovative workplaces.

From: Second Life Blog [RESOLVED] If you can’t log in to the Support Portal at the moment… Quote from the site - …chances are, you’re talking to Webserver #20. Among all of our Webservers, #20 has suddenly decided it’s not on speaking terms with the support portal login. The others are working fine.

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