Warren EllisIf you don’t know who Warren Ellis is, you need to find out - simply put, he’s one of the best writers on the planet in any format he touches. And now he’s going to be writing a news columns from Second Life!
Giving First Life Gifts in Second Life using Amazon.comIn the virtual world Second Life it is easy to form very close friendships with someone you may never have the opportunity to meet in person. Second Life residents celebrate First Life holidays like Valentine’s Day and Christmas as well as personal celebrations; birthdays, weddings, anniversaries […]
Oxford Flood Pictures
I am in the city of Oxford at the tail of a two-week speaking tour of the UK. Parts of Oxford have been underwater for the last few days due to some nearly unprecedented summer flooding. After arriving in town yesterday I wandered around and took a few pictures. Many parts of […]
Warren EllisIf you don’t know who Warren Ellis is, you need to find out - simply put, he’s one of the best writers on the planet in any format he touches. And now he’s going to be writing a news columns from Second Life!
Today in Second Life - Sunday 19 August, 2007
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Today in Second Life we had:
19,564 new signups bringing us to 8,974,642 signups total.
A peak concurrency of 48,498 at 2:06PM, and a minimum concurrency of 26,499 at 11:57PM. Median concurrency for the day was 36,374.
The grid experienced more […]
Who are we? - Otenth Paderborn
Filed under: Interviews, Resident Snapshot
This is the 15th in a series of largely demographic interviews that are conducted with established residents, to find out more about them and their involvement with Second Life, and to contrast the differences between their views and experiences and those of the newer residents. The […]
slconference 2007 is cancelledFrom September 16-18 there should have been a european conference called slconference07. According to their homepage it is cancelled now. In the end it seems that they did not manage to get enough financial funding for it probably due to lack of sponsoring interest as their statement on their homepage hints.So here […]
The Future of TeachingYesterday I spent the day in a pretty heady, day-long workshop sponsored by the Institute for the Future out here in Palo Alto talking about what schools, and specifically teaching might look like at some point down the road. It was titled “The Future of Learning Agents” and Steve Hargadon was there […]