From: Metaversed Philip Rosedale on Managing Virtual Distance Quote from the site - The Managing Virtual Distance conference held by the Institute for International Research began yesterday at The Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, CA. The keynote speaker was Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab. While he couldn’t be there in person, he still managed to attend the conference by interacting with the audience through Second Life.

From: Caleb Booker Create Ted Castranova’s Avatar! Quote from the site - Monday at 11am PST Metanomics will be host to Ted Castranova, world-renowned expert on MMORPG economies and one of the first economists to do serious studies there. He has a request: “make me a dwarf female, high fantasy style.”

From: Massively Beowulf novelisation author interviewed via Second Life Quote from the site - Caitlin Kiernan, who wrote the novel to go with the movie Beowulf, is following in Neil Gaiman’s and Roger Avary’ s footsteps by being interviewed in Second Life. However the interview with Kiernan will be broadcast on BBC2’s ‘The Culture Show’ at 7pm GMT (11am SL Time) tomorrow.

From: Dizzy Banjo Philip’s first voice presentation in Second Life! Quote from the site - Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend a talk by Philip Rosedale CEO of Linden Lab speaking at the Managing Virtual Distance conference held by the Institute for International Research in Anaheim, California.

From: Metaversed Virtual Finance And The Reality Of The Linden Dollar Quote from the site - Our latest Metanomics session featured financial entrepreneurs, some of whom work in a real world financial institution and some who focus their efforts on financial business inside the virtual world. It was recorded and re-broadcast across the Second Life grid by SLCN.tv, and can be screened by clicking on one of the links above.

From: Wayne Porter Second Life Griefing- “Raid Warning” Virtual War Quote from the site - Following was passed to me from a trusted colleague. As with any coordinated attack in Second Life it may or may not materialize. I would recommend SIM owners being alert. If none of this makes sense to you then it is not a problem you have to contend with. For some reason this reminds me of my interview with the SLLA (Second Life Liberation Army). So long ago .They apparently have NOTHING to do with this “Raid”, and again this is a general warning. Take it for what it is worth.

From: Massively Linden Lab readdressing servers Quote from the site - Linden Lab have been restarting Second Life servers all day. Well, since about 1pm, at any rate. Suddenly, with not really any notice, all these servers need new IP-addresses. Linden Lab’s operations team is working on assigning the new addresses and restarting the servers.

From: the Beijinger Second Life Moves To Beijing Quote from the site - If you’ve dared to step inside an internet bar anywhere in China, you may have immediately realized two things: it is easy to inhale the second-hand smoke equivalent of an entire Zhongnanhai cigarette, and kids and adults are more than willing to spend bleary-eyed days playing fantasy dragon-slaying games and chatting online. Whether they will take to chat-based fantasy worlds like Second Life or its Chinese equivalent HiPiHi is not yet clear.

From: Pioneer Online Student earns big money with Second Life Quote from the site - Music has given Kerry Lowery the opportunity to travel all over the nation, and the Internet has given him the opportunity to perform for people all over the world.

Lowery currently is playing eight to 10 shows a week on Second Life, an online video game where real people get together to live out virtual lives.

From: Yahoo Pipes Second Life in dutch media Quote from the site - Collection of Dutch media, marketing and news sites that are filtered on containing Second Life.

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From: Blog-EFL Education@Edunation - Second Life Teaching Tools Quote from the site - I’m now getting excited about the new initiative that the Consultants-E are launching in two weeks: a new series of monthly events, Education@Edunation, which I’ve been asked to help co-ordinate. The first one, which unfortunately I won’t be able to attend (I’ll be on a plane coming back from Venezuela) looks like a very promising launch to what I’m sure will be a very popular event in Second Life.

From: Discovery Educator Network SHOUT OUT TO RIPTIDE FURSE Quote from the site - I KNOW he’s gonna kill me when he reads this post, but too bad!!!

I’ve posted elsewhere, and I believe I might even have posted here how I believe we are no longer dealing with the ‘read/write’ web, but rather with what I’ve coined ‘Web C3‘ which is Consume, Contribute, and Collaborate. I know that we use different tools for the collaboration portion.

From: Beth’s Second Life Second Life and NCTE Quote from the site - What happens when 14,000 English teachers and professors gather in New York City for a conference?

I can’t think of a good punch line. I am taking punch line donations down there in the comments tab ;p

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