From: PRWeb An Artist and a Poet In the Virtual World Second Life Collaborate On An Anti-Violence, Anti-War Installation Quote from the site - Paul C’zanne and Jeannette Angell — as their Second Life personas, PleaseWakeMeUp Idler and Sherpa Voyager — have created an art installation titled “Political is Personal” in a rented warehouse in Second Life.

From: The Journal Gazette Virtual assumption Quote from the site - U.S. intelligence officials are cautioning that popular Internet services that enable computer users to adopt cartoon-like personas in 3-D online spaces also are creating security vulnerabilities by opening novel ways for terrorists and criminals to move money, organize and conduct corporate espionage.

From: Sophie Kinsella SOPHIE KINSELLA IN SECOND LIFE! Quote from the site - On March 2nd, Sophie Kinsella will read from her new novel, REMEMBER ME?—and take questions from readers throughout Second Life in the Amphitheatre on Bantam Dell Island. You can also view the event live on this page.

From: phone mag NEC use mobile Second Life to demo VoIP & multimedia tech Quote from the site - I’m not sure if Vincent will have time to visit online world Second Life while at MWC - there’s so much to see that just getting round the real-world is practically impossible! - but NEC are offering mobile access to the service as a demonstration of their SCI Platform, made up of IP voice and multimedia services.

From: Product Reviews NEC’s IP Voice & Media Solution: Second Life via mobile phones Quote from the site - It’s been revealed today at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, that NEC is to connect mobile phones and virtual worlds, namely “Second Life”. They will do this by placing a unique `NEC communicator` in the Second Life world.

From: Telegraph Spies tread lightly in Second Life Quote from the site - Last week the Washington Post ran an article on a report produced by Iarpa, the American intelligence technology agency about virtual worlds (Second Life, World of Warcraft and so on) and they role they could play in global terrorism.

From: michigan evergreen Evergreen seminar in Second Life Feb. 12 Quote from the site - The Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) is hosting a free seminar in Second Life on Tuesday, February 12, 4pm SL time (that’s 7pm EST - Michigan time). The seminar will focus on Evergreen ILS open-source software.

From: Tonka’s World Second Life? I can barely manage my first. Quote from the site - As a ventured in the world of Second Life, I was skeptical. I’ll be honest, before this class, I never really saw the value of these “virtual worlds” and thought they were downright weird.

From: Team Think Interviewing in SecondLife Quote from the site - Interesting article in the New York Times about companies moving job interviews into SecondLife. The whole virtual world industry has had a lot of folk scratching their heads saying “Gosh, that’s cool. There must be a way to use it in business, but how?”

From: Labourhome First Trade Union Protest on Second Life Quote from the site - I couldn’t make the Newham UNISON rally tonight with Guest speaker, Tony Benn, in support of their sacked branch Chair, Michael Gavan, (I’m laid up and off work with a dodgy Achilles heal). However, I was able to visit the brand new on-line “Union Island” on “Second Life” to listen to an on-line debate on “union busters”.

From: Digital Transformation Magazine for Second Life in Second Life. Quote from the site - Second life has a magazine for Second life homes and gardens with lots of articles about buying or renting home in Second life, finding the best designers, choosing furniture, arranging it to best advantage, landscaping garden and learning the latest news from the world of interior design.

From: Carolyn’s blog Midwives meeting in second life Quote from the site - Having had a meeting in second life with my friends, supporters and mentors, Petal and Arwenna my plans for the midwives meeting in second life is moving along. We discussed where we might hold the meeting and decided on Koru Island, the New Zealand educators island.

From: Dedric Mauriac Following the scripting advice of a bimbo Quote from the site - My day job primarily consists of programming software, databases, and websites. I use products that deal with version control in test environments before I release the code in a live environment.

From: geek gestalt Book review: ‘The making of Second Life’ Quote from the site - The virtual world Second Life might be a household name today, but back in 1999 when its founder first brought a small group of developers together in a sketchy San Francisco alley, changing the world wasn’t looking like much of a possibility.

From: New World Notes Virtual World As Terrorist Haven/Money Laundering Platform? Cory Ondrejka Says Not So Much Quote from the site - Last week I briefly noted a feature Washington Post story, “Spies’ Battleground Turns Virtual”, because it confirmed the existence of private Second Life islands owned by the CIA. I missed some of the article’s more inflammatory language, but Cory Ondrejka didn’t.

From: Reuters Linden “actively discussing” ad farms Quote from the site - Jack Linden said Friday that Linden Lab is looking into the problem of ad farms — small patches of land filled with garish virtual billboards. While discussing a new “Linden Department of Public Works” initiative to beautify the Second Life mainland, he wrote…

From: geek gestalt Multiverse shows off its virtual Times Square Quote from the site - I spent part of Friday afternoon in New York’s Times Square, but something wasn’t quite right. On the one hand, things looked very realistic, with the many digital video screens blaring high-fidelity but inane content out at me. On the other, there was only one person in evidence.

From: Law Career Blog Second (Life) Opinions Revisited Quote from the site - In November, I posted about UK law firm Simpson Millar, which has set up shop in the online gaming world “Second Life.” I just received an interesting comment on that post–and since some time has passed since then, and since it’s an interesting issue, I thought it was worth pointing out again.

From: Second Life Blog Service Quality Metrics through January ‘08 posted Quote from the site - I have updated our Service Quality Metrics page with updated data through the end of January 2008, and the downloadable data and charts are also available in excel, open document, and google docs formats. The format of the charts and datasets has been truncated to a “rolling 7 months” format to remain concise and to increase the legibility of the charts.

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