From a bump from Crap Mariner. From: Second Life Podcast Network SL UtR - 23 - Yak Priest Quote from the site - Have you ever met a Yak Priest? I have, and Rocky Torok is his name. This time he talks to us about all things not related to the Yak, and a couple things that are. Rocky’s an SL DJ and also a new mentor, besides being co-owner of the Lonely Yak Roadhouse on Blakslee World.

From: The Insatiable Zoe Connolly News about the SL BloggerCon Quote from the site - Sadly, there will be no SL Bloggers Convention as I originally planned for February 2008.

From: SLNN.com Timeline emerges over banking shutdown Quote from the site - Slowly, a more complete picture of what has happened with Hope Capital Bonds not making their bond interest payment on November 2nd and the ripple effect it has had is becoming available.

From: Direct2Dell Real Life and Second Life Come Together Via the Twitterverse Quote from the site - While the flurry of activity that is the Consumer Electronics Show has passed, there are still some great stories to come out of it. I was there for two entire hours myself, thanks to a “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” type of experience getting to Vegas. Although, instead of an obnoxious guy hanging with me, I had my Twitter friends.

From: Ambling in Second Life Rixos Hotels and Villas Quote from the site - Turkey seems to be one of the up-and-coming countries in Second Life at the moment. Nic Mitham at Kzero pointed me at this newpaper article that gives a little more insight into this. I mention all of this because the subject of today’s post is - I believe - my first Turkish company.

From: Metroblogging San Francisco Second Life requires “banks” get a second look, and FDIC approval Quote from the site - SF based Linden Labs, whose fantasy Second Life website creation is supposedly becoming more popular all the time, is also starting to find out about the risks in managing a large “virtual” population. Apparently, after wooing in users whose real lives were lacking and needed online fleshing out, the company now needs to weed out the scam artists who are anything but “fake”.

From: Vint Falken dmoz’ing Second Life: get noticed! Quote from the site - Wondering how much Second Life sites are represented in the dmoz listing aka open project directory - I had to be there for other reasons - I went to Google’s Directory. To my surprise, the open project directory and thus also Google says that there exist only 50 sites on Second Life?!? That few, you say?

From: Massively San Jose’s Tech Museum looks for virtual exhibits in Second Life Quote from the site - The Tech Museum in San Jose is worth the trip alone. Always chock-full of fantastic and informative exhibits and events, it’s the go-to place for the rare combination of education and entertainment that neither preaches nor panders. As befitting such a forward-looking institution, The Tech has created a virtual museum location in Second Life.

From: tgdaily Banking crisis hits Second Life Quote from the site -
San Francisco (CA) – The virtual residents of Second Life are experiencing a banking crisis of their own after a recently announced ban on unregistered banks. As of January 22nd, unregistered banks won’t be able to offer interest or any return on investment. Now, virtual citizens are scrambling to pull their money out of banks and causing some institutions to close their doors.

From: Metropolismag The Unreal World Quote from the site - The late French philosopher Jean Baudrillard famously observed that, in contemporary society, individuals have come to prefer the “hyperreal” experience of computer and media worlds to actual everyday reality. Lately, this phenomenon has become so pronounced that Baudrillard’s theory seems almost quaint.

From: New World Notes Imagining “The Dumb Man”: SL Machinima Auteur Lainy Voom’s Latest Movie Quote from the site - When Lainy Voom first heard Sherwood Anderson’s mysterious short story, “The Dumb Man”, she says, “It stopped me in my tracks, made me absolutely still while I listened.” It was about death and desire, and it refused easy understanding.

I have posted the video below, but you should read the blog post as they interview the creator of the video Lainy Voom.

The Dumb Man from Lainy Voom on Vimeo.

From: Economics of Virtual Worlds Bye Bye Banks Quote from the site - Linden Lab made headlines recently by announcing a ban on banks in Second Life that lacked government certification, effective Jan. 22, 2008. via New World Notes

From: New World Notes Georgia Tech Grads Add Augmented Reality Feature to Second Life’s Open Source Client Quote from the site - How about a first-person shooter that you can play in the real world, or a filmmaker’s tool for displaying space ships and flying dragons out of thin air on a small budget? That’s just two immediate applications that spring to mind with Augemented Reality Second Life, a project from two grad students at Georgia Tech (known in SL as Tobey McElroy and Blair Potluck.)

Second Life as a Platform for Augmented Reality

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From: Wayne Porter Primitive Avatars, Infinite Thinking and Monolith 8 Should Not Exist in Second Life. Quote from the site - “The Magic Circle” and preserving its sanctity… I don’t believe any gaming circle is sacrosanct and by inscribing such “sacred space” you miss the “real game” or the ability to take gaming to whole new heights. A lot of discussions have been going on in world about Second Life’s “Economy”… one of the hidden secrets and assets in the Second Life milieu is the ability to rapidly find and connect those very forward thinking, collaborative and creative people (who do not always agree) to explore things and explore new modes that cause break through thinking.

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