From: ACLU Blog In Their Shoes: Guantanamo in Second Life Quote from the site - Do you Second Life? If you do, join activists from around the country on Progressive Island tomorrow starting at 11 a.m. SLT/2 p.m. EST for the ACLU’s Close Guantánamo Day of Action. A series of live, interactive events will mark the sixth anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

From: New World Notes Second Life Events: Rik’s Picks for January 10-13 Quote from the site - Joining the ranks of Second Life Sweden, Morocco, Mexico and the Netherlands (among others), comes the latest virtual recreation of a nation-state: SL Israel. At 7PM PST today there will be an opening party to celebrate the new sim.

From: smp Author - and Her Victorian Creations - Come Alive in Second Life Quote from the site - Deanna Raybourn, author of ‘Silent in the Sanctuary,’ the latest novel featuring Victorian sleuth Lady Julia Grey, will be making a series of special interactive appearances in the 3D virtual world of Second Life throughout January.

From: Discovery Education SAVE THE DATE!!! Quote from the site - ‘Get a Life, a Second Life That Is!’ is a webinar aimed at educators who would like to learn more about Second Life and how this virtual world can contribute to your PLN (Personal/Professional Learning Network).

From: Torley A new, free movie recorder that works with Second Life — WeGame Quote from the site - Everyone should know I love to share my enthusiasm about tools that’ll do you well, and after hearing about it yesterday @ TechCrunch, I signed up for an account at WeGame.com and downloaded their movie recorder. Kinda like a “YouTube for games” with the unique bonus of giving you the tool to record with, they just went into Public Beta — while it’s Windows-only at this time, it is free and, as I’ll emphasize again, very easy to use.

From: Business Edge Virtual reality condos getting second look Quote from the site - Condos sales are gathering more than a second look in today’s marketplace. They’re getting a Second Life.

While traditional marketing reigns supreme - show suites, direct mail and other promotional campaigns such as Inter-net sites - condominium developers are getting the chance to have buyers boldly go where they have rarely gone before: Into the world of virtual reality.

From: Computer Weekly Second Life will emerge as leading collaboration platform, says report Quote from the site - IT managers should begin experimenting with Second Life in business today as the collaboration tool is expected to become as popular as e-mail within five years, a report has said.

From: Parent’s Eye View Thoughts on Second Life Quote from the site - I want to get Second Life, I want to understand, but no one seems to be able to explain it to me.

I downloaded Second Life to my computer for the first time about a year ago. I spent time trying to figure out what was going on, and teleporting to some areas set up by friends. There weren’t a lot of other people around, and “rooms” that did have a lot of people were so busy, I could not get in.

From: Press Dispensary A Second Life for The Game and its Rules Quote from the site - Neil Strauss, author of international bestselling ‘pick up’ book The Game, is bringing his newly published follow up, The Rules of the Game (http://www.easy2pull.com/ ), to a global event on January 13, 2008, featuring a live personal appearance, readings from his new book, an audience Q&A and a party.

From: AdRants Second Life Shop ‘Hang the DJ’ Launches Poster Campiagn Quote from the site - Yes, yes, Second Life is apparently alive. While haven’t been there in months, commerce seems to be alive and well or at least the promotional aspects of commerce. Here’s an ad campaign for Hang the DJ clothing shop.

From: Freedom to Tinker Second Life Welcomes Bank Regulators Quote from the site - Linden Lab, the company that runs the popular virtual world Second Life, announced Tuesday that all in-world “banks” must now be registered with real-world banking regulators…

From: Electric Archaeology Planning archaeology in Second Life Quote from the site - Eric over at Digging Digitally commented on my plan to build a virtual excavation in Second Life, and especially my thoughts on linking to outside archaeological databases - like Open Context. XML is definitely the way forward in this regard, and he provides some links to different kinds of data in the Open Context repository…

From: Business Communicators of Second Life ACLU’s “Close Guantánamo” SL Campaign Launching Jan 11 Quote from the site - Today, Jan 11 at 11:00 a.m. SLT the American Civil Liberties Union is holding a launch event in Second Life related to their Close Guantánamo campaign. The new SL space, called “Gone GITMO” is intended to focus attention on the detention of prisoners and the conditions at Camp X-Ray.

From: Wikinomics Second Life and government Quote from the site - A few months back Anthony wrote about Sweden’s efforts in establishing a presence in Second Life. At the time those responsible for the project, and those associated with it such as former PM Carl Blidt, noted that it represented a broader effort to enshrine the country’s reputation as an innovative and forward thinking locale.

From: Second Life Blog New WindLight Viewer! (76886) Quote from the site - Hey all. Lots of good fixes in this one!…

From: Second Life Blog WindLight Survey Results, Part 2! Quote from the site - Hey all. So I’ve gathered the results from the last WindLight Survey. Before I jump into the results themselves, however, I wanted to address one of the biggest issues that it raised: that of survey thoroughness.

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