Feb 5
Second Life News for February 5, 2008
From: New World Notes New World Tableau: Faerie Hax and the Mermaids of SL Quote from the site - These images are taken from Faerie’s compilation of photos documenting the mermaids of Second Life. “The mer culture is another that lives quietly in the background of SL not getting the attention that the Elves get, but getting along quite nicely,” she tells me. “I think there are more mers than most people realize.”
From: Second Life Blog New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.0 RC0 Available Quote from the site - Today’s Release Candidate Viewer (1.19.0 RC0) contains a ton of bug fixes and re-introduces some functionality that was previewed in our 1.18.6 RC viewer series.
From: Massively Second Life content creators face genuine dilemmas Quote from the site - Content theft has always been something of an issue in Second Life, though there seems to be less of it going on in per capita terms than in the physical world. That said, it is interesting to see Second Life content creators increasingly moved towards positions maintained by music and movie publishers in the physical world.
From: longcountdown.com Top SightSeeing Spots in Second Life Japan Quote from the site - I’m a regular visitor to the virtual world of Second Life, and one of my favorite ways to spend time there is by visiting some Japanese sightseeing spots. I have shown you Tokyo Tower, and the castles in Osaka, Kumamoto and Himeji before, but here they are again along with some of my other favorites.
From: Ambling in Second Life Pachinko with Anshinchodoma Quote from the site - This evening’s post features another new island in Second Life, this time from Japan. The island, which goes by the rather unwieldy name of Japan Anshinchodama, apparently opened to the general public on 1st February, or so I gleaned from the Anshinchodama website. I also gleaned that Anshichodama is probably a company that runs pachinko parlours - and may be part of J-Net.
From: Digital Transformation Second Life on The Cover of Business Week Quote from the site - “Second Life (which as you know has been a favorite of the Radar for some time) has made the cover of Business Week. On Saturday, at the Maker Faire, Beth Goza of Second Life excitedly showed me the magazine, turning to the table of contents and showing me the picture of her avatar: “That’s me!” she said.
From: Dedric Mauriac: A second life from the first Visitor statistics at an all-time high Quote from the site - I was just looking at my statistics for each month since the inception of my blog in September of 2006. Last month, I had 1,979 views. This is the highest number of visitors I have had in a given month.
From: Research Quest Procedural Literacy & Second Life Quote from the site - I haven’t really discussed Second Life on this blog but Brian Mathew’s post about Second Life on Friday over at The Ubiquitous Librarian got me thinking again about Second Life’s application in information literacy and the role procedural literacy can play.
From: Texas DEN “Scoot a Boot” at TCEA and Second Life! Quote from the site - Calling all Texas educators! Polish your spurs and c’mon down! Special events are happening all next week at TCEA in Austin and in Second Life!
From: NY Post Jobs FIRMS TURN TO VIRTUAL-LIFE SITE FOR INTERVIEWS Quote from the site - NATHAN Tia, a creative lead for Centric, a new-media agency, has never met his boss face to face. And it’s not because he’s an underperformer who hasn’t been singled out for a pat on the back. It’s because Tia, who works from home, was hired through a “virtual interview,” conducted on the Internet-based virtual world Second Life.
From: Corporate Counsel Why Should Corporate Counsel Become Familiar With Virtual Environments? Aren’t They Just Fun And Games? Quote from the site - For quite some time I attempted to avoid the virtual world. After all, I am a busy attorney who does not have a lot of free time to get involved in non-work, first life activities, no less virtual, “Second Life” ones. However, my law practice reading (i.e., the reading I do to keep up with new cases, statutes, practice tips, issues and other information pertaining to my fields of practice - intellectual property and technology law) just wouldn’t stop talking about metaverses, virtual space, and virtual environments, such as “Second Life.”
From: Howard Rheingold Creating Objects in Second Life Quote from the site - Part of my time online is spent teaching and speaking in Second Life. With the help of KJ Hax and Ferdi Serim, I learned in less than half an hour how to create a book, upload a cover, and link it to the text of one of my books online.
From: Delaware Online Tell us about your Second Life Quote from the site - We’re looking for some Delawareans to profile in a story about the fiendishly addictive Second Life. Do you play? If so, we’d like to hear from you.
From: Business Standard Multi-sensorial to multi-media Quote from the site - Nowadays you rarely hear anyone say their media-mix comprises just film or press or the Internet. It’s increasingly about doing a “multi-media” campaign, or about capturing all 360-degree touch points. The whole idea behind looking at holistic ways and newer mediums of reaching and communicating with the consumer is to make maximum impact on him.
From: Second Life Save the Date - February 6th Quote from the site - What an incredible weekend! DEN’s first (and I’m betting NOT last) Virtual Conference was a hit! So many of my blog colleagues on the DEN website have done a fabulous job wrapping up and processing the day’s event that I won’t even make that attempt.
From: autoblog iMagicLab opening dealer megaplex in Second Life Quote from the site - On March 1, 2008, Second Life will host the grand opening of the Automobile Dealer Relations Center (ARDC) called AutoLand.
From: Business Communicators of Second Life SL Business Communicators Meeting: SkyTran Transcript Quote from the site - Our meeting SL Business Communicators meeting last Friday with UCI professor Crista Lopes a.k.a. Diva Canto flew by - literally. We got the chance to see the coolest rezzing process ever -and it was the SL prototype of the RL magnetic levitation transportation pod project, SkyTran.
From: edc Blog Second Life in Higher Education: Surveying Pros and Cons Quote from the site - I have yet to fully immerse myself into experimenting with Second Life. After creating an account and entering in to begin basic avatar customization, I grew frustrated with the interface (not seeming very intuitive) and have not since entered it.
From: Flexible Learning Second Life group work observations: in-world and out Quote from the site - In my continuing participant observation of Second Life labs, I was observing the Postgraduate participants, who were tasked both in a tutorial class and later in the week in a lab, to decide what they wanted to create on their plot of land - to be assessed as their group work.
From: New World Notes Ziggy Revealed: SL Creator Addresses Content Theft With Real World Plea Quote from the site - “I’m the human behind Ziggy Quirk…” So begins a unique video that represents just the most dramatic move taken by a loose affiliation of content creators protesting a recent wave of content theft. I’m still trying to assemble the narrative, but apparently, one or more Residents were discovered to be selling or giving away skins and fashions from several well known designers.
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I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Jason Whitmen
Thanks for the link.
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