Archive for June, 2008

  • Info Island and libraries in Second Life activities this week

    Hot Topics – Governance in Virtual Worlds
    Who governs virtual worlds? Virtual world creators? Virtual land owners? Group leaders, owners, organizers? In a world created by its residents who makes the rules? What does it mean to be a leader in a virtual world? Join us for our monthly hot topics discussion on Info [...]

  • Vote today to award projects creating real world public good in Second Life

    Imagine rebuilding the real world from the ground up, prim by prim. What would you change and how would you create public good?
    Five finalist projects are realizing their revisions with the Second Life and the Public Good Community Challenge. Now through June 30th you can vote for your top three of these five [...]

  • Info Island and libraries in sl activities this week

    Mystery Manor Book Discussion
    When: 25 June (Wednesday)
    Time: 6PM SL
    Where: Gazebo at Mystery Manor
    Maxito Ricardo will lead a discussion of Hard Time by Sara Paretsky.
    Paretsky’s character, V.I. Warshawski, is a detective from the
    hardboiled school and with her “Paretsky is credited with transforming
    the role and image of women in the crime novel.” (Wikipedia). It [...]

  • Earn some Lindens while helping others understand what it means to work and live in second life

    Earn Some Lindens While Helping Others Understand What It Means to Live and Work in Second Life
    GSD&M’s Idea City (ideacity.com), a national advertising agency in the USA, is creating a panel of Second Life avatars for research and feedback. The goal of their panel is to gather opinions and insights from Second Life residents [...]