1. Linden Lab have released a PDF Quickstart Guide for new Second Life users.
2. Dancing Ink Productions have released a new documentary about a virtual journalism project: The Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo. You can watch it here:
3. Sky News in the UK has pulled the plug on their island in Second Life. As Sigmund Leominster says:
Virtual world Cassandras can eagerly point to this as being further evidence that “the end is nigh,” whereas more sober commentators will simply point out that the economics of news reporting and delivery in Second Life is very different from real life, and spending lots of money to have virtual world analogs of real life newsrooms doesn’t necessarily make any financial sense.
4. Tateru Nino has an interesting post on human nature and virtual environments over at Massively.
Unless I'm much mistaken, Sky have just swapped to Immersive Workspaces rather than left altogether.
You're absolutely correct Peter, they've pulled the plug on their island but not their overall presence in SL.
Unless I'm much mistaken, Sky have just swapped to Immersive Workspaces rather than left altogether.
You're absolutely correct Peter, they've pulled the plug on their island but not their overall presence in SL.