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Running through the end of July are Audience Participation Events for the UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge, with 90 artworks from around the globe and MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom, with a sublime collection of 51 short animated film.Both of these events are set up such that the viewers or the audience experiencing the artworks or the film, can submit a top10 list in the order they … [Read more...] about The University of Western Australia in Second Life: Audience Participation Events: UWA Centenary 3D Art & MachinimUWA V

With over 20,000 regions currently active on the grid, it is sometimes hard to picture just how big Second Life is, much less under how all the various component parts – continents, famous regional groups, places like the Blake Sea and Bay City – look and fit together. Harder still is to picture exactly how SL grew over the years.So, if you do have an interest in … [Read more...] about Charting the growth of Second Life

A nice piece from Sarah Lacy: As anyone who has ever been near a startup knows, none of it is ever that simple, whether the startup succeeds or fails. And it certainly wasn’t for SecondLife — a company that seemed crazy initially, lauded as the next best thing a few years later, and was then dismissed as overhyped and mostly forgotten as the Web 2.0 wave gained … [Read more...] about Philip Rosedale: The Media Is Wrong, SecondLife Didn’t Fail