Tenth Life

The relay portion of the Relay for Life in Second Life has now begun. For the next 24 hours, people will be celebrating, learning, mourning, virtually walking, and yes, raising money for the American Cancer Society.
If you have not yet made a contribution, you can do so in Second Life by paying any donation kiosk [...]

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A wonderfully succint definition by CoyoteAngel Dimsum on Twitter:
social media are “presence by other means”, and that includes Twitter, IM, and SecondLife

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Jay Lake (author of Mainspring) has proposed creating a steampunk abecedary:
Let’s play a bloggy game. Per the above, put your suggestions for a steampunk abecedary in comments — next week I’ll distill them out, and we’ll have a poll for the coolest/funniest, with hardback copies of Escapement [ Powell's | Amazon ] as prizes.
Only two [...]

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Virtual worlds have the potential to create real and deep connections across many boundaries. Please consider voting to add Arabic language to SL.

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Second Life Grid Status Reports » Blog Archive » [Resolved] Logins closed - In-World service disruptions
Our central database is sad, which leads to disruptions in several inworld services, such as teleports, search and profiles not working, logins and transactions failing.
Please do not attempt any transactions with non-copy items at this time.
Excuse me? “Our central database [...]

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