From: The Sun UCR plans virtual world Quote from the site - It is virtually going to happen in a few months. UC Riverside students and others will live, work and play - and buy whatever they want - in a campus-research project dedicated to consumer behavior.

From: Newscientist Virtual time travel Quote from the site - A project funded by the Library of Congress aiming to preserve early computer games, electronic literature like online novel 253, and virtual worlds like Second Life has just kicked off at Stanford University.

From: The How They Got Game Project We are Preserving Virtual Worlds Quote from the site - Just a short note to let everyone know that the previously announced project, “Preserving Virtual Worlds,” funded by the U.S. Library of Congress, officially began quietly on 1 January.

From: Gwyn’s Home Hitler Explains Second Life Quote from the site - It’s more fun if you don’t speak German, and you have a sense of humour.

This is hilarious.

From: The Jewish Daily A Trip to the Holy Land, Online Quote from the site - Flying to Israel is costly and time-consuming, but a virtual trip is just a few mouse clicks away. The online world Second Life opened an Israel community last Sunday, and users can now travel to such sites as the Old City in Jerusalem, the Western Wall, the promenade and opera house in Tel Aviv, the Red Sea and the Eilat underwater observatory.

From: Millions of Us Imagine Life Sweeter Quote from the site - Vote for your favorite. We asked Second Life residents to send us their wildest ideas about what would make Second Life sweeter. And we got some doozies. Our panel has narrowed it down to a select few. Four, to be exact.

From: Business Communicators of Second Life Reuters Brings Davos 2008 to Second Life Quote from the site - The World Economic Forum held each year in Davos, Switzerland will again be accessible, at least in part, to Second Life visitors and residents. Reuters reports they will be there interviewing several business leaders from Davos next week, January 23 - 27.

From: switched Virtual Banks Crumbling in ‘Second Life’ Quote from the site - Whether or not you’ve ever explored the typically flamboyant vistas of the virtual world ‘Second Life’ or have any desire to do so, the virtual community with few rules and fewer rule enforcers is still a fascinating social experiment to study from the outside. So, it’s with morbid curiosity that we sit back and watch as many major financial institutions in the virtual world begin to fall to pieces.

From: nmc NMC Virtual Worlds Announces Plans for 2008 Quote from the site - Today, on the anniversary of the founding of NMC Virtual Worlds, the New Media Consortium announced new directions for the NMC’s special services unit in the coming year, and affirmed the continuation of the work it began a year ago and continued throughout 2007. NMC Virtual Worlds provides a full palette of support to educational institutions wishing to explore, build, or establish a presence in a range of virtual worlds.

From: TechNewsWorld Virtual World Workforce, Part 1: Promising the World Quote from the site - Despite the press these high-profile recruiting events receive, the move to virtual worlds for workforce activities is part of an evolution, not necessarily a revolution. Employers have used social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook to meet and learn about prospective employees for years, explained Louis Vong, vice president of interactive strategy for recruiting firm TMP.

From: msnbc Q&A with Anshe Chung, virtual philanthropist Quote from the site - Contribute’s Janet Rae-Dupree created a digital “self” — an avatar called Scoop Raymaker — to enable her to explore Second Life and interview its first philanthropist, virtual real estate tycoon Anshe Chung.

From: Second Life Blog Rolling Restart Scheduled Thursday Afternoon PST Quote from the site - A rolling restart is scheduled for Thursday, 17 Jan between 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm PST. The simulator code update is meant to improve database performance

From: exec Businesses look to online world Second Life to create virtual enterprise Quote from the site - Real-life companies look to expand their enterprises by doing online business on virtual world second life. Exec explores the user-defined world and its first dollar millionaire Anshe Chung.

From: Second Life Herald Phantom Bots Skimp On Physics Quote from the site - One of the mysteries the Great Bot Hunt may have finally been revealed by Second Life resident Day Oh, who called the Herald to explain the key to creating phantom avatars. Readers may recall that last November the Herald located a number of mysterious bots lurking in Linden sims - bots that were impossible to bump or push.

From: New World Notes Ophelia’s Gaze: Iris’ Guide to Using WindLight with Style Quote from the site - When the WindLight version of Second Life was released last Summer, I completely converted. WindLight offers much more advanced atmospheric controls than the official viewer, from the clouds to the water, with much more effective and realistic lighting controls. The problem is… there are so many controls, and avatars have so many little flaws.

From: Verbal Stew Pigs in Space! Quote from the site - Hopefully at least one person gets that reference. Haha! I cracked myself up with it. :p If you haven’t heard yet, Aley Arai has her very own sim. Who is Aley Arai, you ask? Well, she is a super genius, of course.

From: Reuters Live from the World Economic Forum in Davos Quote from the site - Reuters is back next week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. We’ll be interviewing guests such as Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab Chairman Mitch Kapor, Robert Scoble, and Tim O’Reilly, live in front of a Second Life audience at the Reuters Auditorium.

From: Your2ndPlace Library of Congress: Backing Up Second Life? Quote from the site - Yesterday, when I wrote ‘Beyond Linden lab’, I had not even heard a whispered rumor of the Library of Congress project mentioned by New Scientist: …It is one thing to preserve copies of the architecture and objects in such worlds.

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