Don't Dump It! Donate or Recycle Your Electronic Gear...Some Tips from 'Green...

Maybe your town does not have a bulk day like mine has (usually the first Monday of the month).I am sometimes surprised at how much we throw away.A lot of our electronic gear gets tired or we fall out of love with it. If it went past its freshness date and does not work...

Second Life Bluesman Gets First Life Record Deal

If you had any doubts that you lived in The Future, you may now dispel them... a real-life blues artist has signed a record deal after a labe's avatar saw his avatar, playing a live gig in Second Life. The label, Reality Entertainment, was actively scouring Second Life for...

Old Denver Airport Runway finds Second Life as Kitchen Countertops

In the Remake Remodel sphere, a couple of Denver based companies are finding a Second Life for concrete from the runway of the now defunct Stapleton Airport.Immix turns it into countertops as for Recrete Materials they recycle it into new buildings and projects. Calling...

Better living through machinima

The amount of creative energy that goes into building artificial worlds is astonishing.  Now a group wants to channel that energy into building solutions for the real world.  Using the popular appeal of Machinima - cinema made in virtual worlds - Quest 2 Change Real...

The New "Summer Job" - Working in a Virtual World

The summer has already started for many students and the job search is on. Most people think of employment in a traditional sense - tangible and in person. For the few that are involved with online virtual worlds, money making doesn't need to happen in the flesh. You, me, and...

Social Media Newsrooms: The Ultimate Web 2.0 Tool for Your Business

A social media newsroom is one place to send the media, prospective clients, book reviewers, or anyone who wants to know all about you, your business, or your book.

Neal Stephenson Returns With "Anathem"

The writer that gave us the cyberpunk classic Snow Crash -- which provided the inspiration and fictional, narrative blueprints for SecondLife -- returns with a new novel this September. Time to reignite those suggestively cyborg, philosophical fantasies. "Neal Stephenson,...

When old media met new media

Only last week, yet another big news organisation set up shop in Second Life. CNN opened an I-Report hub in the virtual world, following the the footsteps of other news media such as Reuters. Life4U, which describes itself as the first magazine TV programme in Second Life,...

Cash from Convergence: TV Shows on Second Life

A Second Life avatar can now pick up a television set to watch tv channels in a bizarre twist of ongoing mobius media convergence. One of these channels will be UK company 3DD Production’s music series, London Live, the first music show to appear on the cyberchannel:...

Los jesuitas se encomiendan a 'Second Life'

La Compañía de Jesús propuso hoy utilizar la plataforma virtual Second Life para difundir el Evangelio, según un artículo difundido por su publicación Civiltà Cattolica y que ha tenido una buena acogida en el Vaticano.El presidente del Pontificio Consejo de las...

In cyberspace, no one can hear you scheme: Insight - Business - ZDNet Australia

Second life and other virtual worlds are redefining how business works.