Merged realities: events and issues for virtual worlds

1. Clever Zebra have made their Virtual Worlds for Business eBook a free download – all the details here.

2. ABC Island in Second Life sees the return of music trivia show Rockit this Friday night at 8.30pm AEDT. Everyone has a chance of being a contestant and it’s a lot of fun.

3. It’s always a small world: research shows that people in MMOGs congregate with people geographically close to them:

“It’s not creating new networks. It’s reinforcing existing networks. You can talk to anyone anywhere, and yet individuals 10 kilometers away from each other are five times more likely to be partners than those who are 100 kilometers away from each other.”

4. We’re well and truly still running our Victorian Bushfire fundraiser – all the details here.