From: Information Week One-On-One With Second Life Creator Philip Rosedale Quote from the site - Rosedale, who announced last week that he’s stepping aside as CEO of Linden Lab, describes the challenges of continuing Second Life growth while preserving the crazy culture that made it popular.

From: Prime Newswire Global Kids to Open International Justice Center in Second Life With Address by the ICC Prosecutor Quote from the site - Global Kids, the foremost nonprofit in virtual world education, is set to launch the International Justice Center within Second Life on March 20 at 3PM EST. The inaugural event will feature a presentation and discussion by Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Later that same day, the center will host a simulcast of an address by Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary General.

From: The Press Association University’s ‘virtual’ open day Quote from the site - A British university is claiming a first with plans to hold an open day in the virtual reality world of Second Life. Liverpool Hope University aims to attract students from across the world with the online scheme to open the doors of its virtual campus.

From: Christopher Scott Rice UK Second Life Island Grand Opening Thursday Quote from the site - Just wanted to post this invitation to UK’s Grand Opening for its Second Life Island on Thursday afternoon. I’ll be giving a brief talk as part of a panel at 2pm at the WT Young Library Auditorium.

From: ITworld.com Career networking in Second Life Quote from the site - Arriving for the first time in Second Life can be compared to visiting a large shopping mall in a distant city. Everything looks vaguely familiar, but chances are you don’t know anyone. Yet for many IT professionals this brave new world offers unique opportunities for networking, job searches and even interviews.

From: Emerald City World Water Day gets a concert in Second Life Quote from the site - How do you get people involved in big issues that are enormously important but also dauntingly huge in scope — and seemingly very removed from the realities of the people you’re trying to reach? You’ve probably heard about how many people around the world don’t have access to clean drinking water.

From: Fleetwood Weekly News University to hold ‘open day in Second Life’ Quote from the site - Liverpool Hope University is claiming a first with plans to hold an open day in the virtual reality world of Second Life. The university aims to attract students from across the world with the online scheme to open the doors of its virtual campus. The open day has been planned as part of a six month project by third year BA Media students.

From: Web Worker Daily Just Another Day in Second Life Quote from the site - I’m a serial entrepreneur in a virtual world. How did a nice girl like me end up being such a geek? Was it because I read science fiction as a young girl while all my friends were reading romance novels? Did it happen when I played Space Invaders on a neighbor’s Atari?

From: BBC Uni open day held in Second Life Quote from the site - BA Media students at Liverpool Hope University have set up a virtual campus on the imaginary world website as part of a six-month project.

From: Orange Island Dorkbot session : a Mixed Reality Event, in Paris and Second Life Quote from the site - The Dorkbot session is a collaboration between Dorkbot SL and Dorkbot Paris, and will take shape as a Mixed Reality Event, in Paris and Second Life.

From: Economist Break down these walls Quote from the site - “THE farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” Apply Winston Churchill’s aphorism to the internet, and about the farthest back you can look is 1994, when the previously obscure computer network first became known to a wider public.

From: Second Life Blog I see gray people… and they walk around like they don’t know they are gray. Quote from the site - We are getting reports from some residents that there are regions where textures do not seem to be loading properly. The effect is everyone in the region appears gray to everyone else.

From: Ambling in Second Life Mercedes Drives Off Quote from the site - The virtual worlds marketing consultancy, Kzero, reports that Mercedes-Benz is closing its multi-sim presence in Second Life today. It is almost exactly 1 year since I posted about the opening of the site.

From: SL Reports WSE - World Stock Exchange - Delists, Delists, Delists Delists… Quote from the site - Hot in off the press, WSE delists seven (7) companies in one day. The message is brief to why the companies are delisted. WSE once the biggest stock exchange in Second Life has in the past month delisted twelve companies in total - some of which requested to be removed from the exchange due to shareholder concerns regarding the future of WSE.

From: Your 2nd Place Wandering Penguin: Looking For Land in All The Wrong Places Quote from the site - It’s time for Wandering Penguin to establish a Base of Penguinations, so this means doing the unthinkable.

From: New World Notes AjaxLife’s Killer App: Offline Deletion Of SL Inventory From The Web! Quote from the site - The latest version of AjaxLife, the web-based Second Life viewer from teen Second Lifer Katharine Berry, comes with a powerful new feature that should warm the heart of every Resident who’s been in-world for more than a few months.

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