Mark Colvin starts to get Second Life
I like Mark Colvin’s style of journalism a lot – PM is arguably one of Australia’s best sources of current affairs to be found, and its ongoing success is at least partly due to its host. He also happens to be pretty tech savvy and is one of Australia’s more engaging people on Twitter.
Today, [...]
Pool: the ideal Second Life tie-in opportunity for the ABC
I received a press release from the ABC’s Radio National, who have launched collaborative content creation site called Pool.
It’s a joint initiative between RMIT University, University of Technology Sydney and the University of Wollongong and runs on the open source content management system Drupal. The call is on for people to contribute their words, [...]
Peter Rowsthorn gets virtual
Last Friday night, ABC show Can We Help covered the topic of virtual worlds, with host Peter Rowsthorn being shown around Second Life by the RMIT’s Lisa Dethridge.
Watch it in full here:
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Thanks to Wolfie Rankin for the heads-up!
A year ago on The Metaverse Journal
We provided a blow-by-blow account of the Four Corners episode on Second Life and the in-world Q&A with Four Corners reporter Ticky Fullerton.
Australian business interest growing in Second Life?
In the next two weeks I’m involved in two separate events that have the same purpose – to raise awareness of the opportunities that Second Life presents. The first has a corporate focus and the panel discussion involves key people from Telstra, REA and the ABC involved in their respective Second Life presences. The second [...]
ABC Island gets Melbourne Cup fever as well
ABC Island is getting into the Melbourne Cup spirit as well, running a fashions on the field event tomorrow evening at 7pm (1am SL time) at the Melbourne Laneways section of the island.
From the announcement:
“So dress to impress and join in fashions on the field, history of the Melbourne Cup and compete in the race [...]
Librarians Forum another successful ABC Island event
As mentioned previously, the new comedy on ABC, The Librarians was the impetus for a forum held on the Melbourne Laneways section of ABC Island. The build itself featured aspects of the TV show, utilising one of the Laneways buildings previously unused.
More than thirty people attended, including a respectable cohort of librarians. There was some [...]
