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Article by a PHd student, subject:Second Life

interesting article in the Guardian about a guy doing a PHD on Second Life. Snippet below…..
Real life crashes into Second Life’s digital idyll

Aleks Krotoski
Thursday November 30, 2006

It was three weeks ago that my virtual world disintegrated. I had been struggling with a digital littering problem in my Social Simulation Research Lab and I wanted to automate the cleanup process. As the home of my PhD research is the virtual world of Second Life, I need to ensure that my online space looks professional and tidy so any potential participants who visit will instantly recognise my good intentions. I’d spent days lining up little planks of wood, straightening out the interactive books on the shelves and placing the windows just so. All that I needed to do, I was assured, was flick a little switch and foreign objects would be removed. I flicked. Then everything disappeared…….

December 6th, 2006 Posted by sparkle | Uncategorized | no comments

Four people, three continents.

I quickly get bored and exit when I don’t find anyone in SL.

Tonight, however, I ended up sitting around a table at the Kansas State Library Virtual branch, chatting with two librarians who were both giving tours to rooms full of people in RL. Rocky is a librarian from Kansas. Cyberbob is a librarian at a technical library in Denmark.

We discussed the possibility of somehow integrating SFX into a SL library building to create a kind of reading room. I don’t understand enough about SFX to know whether that would work. I mentioned that I want to find out how the Medical Library at Healthinfo Island has installed a health info google CSE as a service. They consider it a breakthrough that they didn’t need to use the HUD. No idea what the HUD is and why it’s a breakthrough, but I intend to find out.

December 6th, 2006 Posted by Kathryn Greenhill | Uncategorized | 6 comments

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