Morning,
One individual already has! To wit:
… TROY, N.Y.–Edd Hifeng barely merits a second glance in “Second Life.” A steel-gray robot with lanky limbs and linebacker shoulders, he looks like a typical avatar in the popular virtual world.
But Edd is different.
His actions are animated not by a person at a keyboard but by a […]

Morning,
Second Life has obviously come of age! To wit:
…There are roughly one million active residents of Second Life. But for people who haven’t visited that virtual world — or don’t intend to — director Douglas Gayeton has brought back a dispatch.
Second Life is an online, 3-D landscape where denizens have an almost unlimited […]

Morning!
This is ‘way ‘way cool, to wit:
….I saw Iron Man on Monday and it is a great movie! What I was unaware of was that Iron Man is also in Second Life and doing something pretty cool. Annie Ok worked on the machinima film (see above) and informed me of an Iron […]

Morning!
This just came across my radar - to wit:
…Understanding how to promote yourself, an event, or just to get the word out in Second Life can be a bit of a challenge, even for the professionals have trouble doing it. There are some tools and resources that are lacking in from the traditional […]

Morning!
NPR has a great discussion over at how the virtual world affects your real word behavior. To wit:
…How you appear in the virtual world could affect your behavior in real life, according to researchers at Stanford University. Andrea Seabrook speaks with Stanford’s Jeremy Bailenson about his research into how people interact psychologically with […]

Got an iPhone?
Want to use it for dignified reasons like Second Life?
‘course you do! And that’s why:
…Comverse has been demoing a version of Second Life on the iPhone at the Mobile World Congress this week.Instead of trying to run the full app on the iPhone’s hardware, Second Life is actually being run from […]

‘Course you do!
‘Course you want a Flip Oakes Wild Thing trumpet to travel the stratosphere (and if you do, I certainly can vouch for its awesomeness - I treated myself to one 2 years ago and it’s heaven).
Check out this article I’ve found for you regarding Second Life and Musical instruments, to wit:
I’ve never […]

You have politics,
so of course! You have religion on Second Life. To wit:
…As a part of my ongoing research into the role of religion in virtual worlds, I have set up a survey. It is essentially the same as an earlier survey profiled by Wagner James Au in his blog, […]

You know
you’d think that politics run rampant in America…and you’d be right.
Did you know they’re heating up in the Virtual World of Second LIfe as well?
To wit:
…The presidential campaign has gotten nasty in the real world. It’s getting nasty in the virtual world, too.
As Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama duke it out in […]

Art has imitated
life a wee bit too much here:
…Sadly the person who erased the existence of his virtual life this time was a good friend of mine. But I hear the sound more and more frequently as people struggle to come to terms with the ways in which Second Life is affecting their real […]