Second Life Documentary seeks input
I had some contact today from Shelley Matulick, who made the documentary ‘Our Brilliant Second Life’ that screened on SBS earlier this year. There’s some further films on the way, so Shelley has made the following request:
“I am looking for someone engaged in slave/master arrangement or who is a hostess in SL for a documentary [...]
Weekend Whimsy
Each Friday we provide a sampling of content generated by SL users and posted on services like YouTube:
1. Sonic of Second Life – uncut vol. 3
2. Small Step in Second Life
3. 建築デモ in Second Life 19
Aussie population update – active users decline for first time
Linden Lab have released the metrics for August 2007 and for the first time since we started monitoring Australians in Second Life, there’s been a decline.
The active Australian population is cited as 13,567, down from the 14,832 reported last month. Australia has stayed in 11th place overall for countries using Second Life. According to New [...]
New posting schedule
It’s coming up to a year since SLOz launched, and the growth in the site has astounded us no end. As anyone running a blog will tell you, keeping things fresh is a major challenge. Usually we publish 6-7 stories, but this will decrease to five per week from 1st October as we concentrate on [...]
New aussie rentals
I noticed a new aussie presence popped up on search this week: LeeLee Land. Owned by SL resident LeeLee Dagger, her aims for the island are:
“One island, sprinkled with beautiful houses, half a cup of romance and a pinch of that community feeling! This is the simple recipe I followed to cook up LeeLee Land.
Having [...]
Assisi in SL
In my recent research on foreign language areas in SL, I came across Assisi. It was launched a few days ago and on my initial wanderings amongst different world areas I missed this excellent replica build of the Saint Francis’ Basilica in Assisi.
To quote from the notes and in-world press release:
“The Basilica, built with original [...]
The “Eavesdrop School of Languages” Approach
As indicated on Saturday night’s posting, the interest in the use of voice technology is being canvassed. There has been a recent flurry of activity by educators interested in using the voice and audio ability of SL to enhance lessons in learning a foreign language. The approach to learning languages seems to take the [...]
