{"id":554,"date":"2006-09-28T23:51:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T03:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/28\/things-get-busy-in-second-life\/"},"modified":"2006-09-28T23:51:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T03:51:03","slug":"things-get-busy-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/28\/things-get-busy-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Things get busy in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herewith, a roundup of recent Second Life-related news events, as the virtual world continues to get more &#8220;real&#8221; (for better or worse):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Economist has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7963538\">a long piece<\/a> on Second Life, including a fascinating tale of a psychology professor who set up a place in Second Life where his students could experience something akin to schizophrenia firsthand.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School recently held <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cyberone\/2006\/09\/22\/the-first-class-in-second-life\/\">his first class<\/a> in Second Life as part of an online-only course called &#8220;Law in the Court of Public Opinion.&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>IBM recently held an alumni meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversationblog.com\/journal\/2006\/9\/12\/ibm-holds-alumni-meeting-on-secondlife.html\">on the island<\/a> it owns in Second Life.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>CNet has launched a presence in Second Life which consists of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10802_3-6120339.html\">a virtual replica<\/a> of the company&#8217;s offices in San Francisco, where the news agency says it plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericrice.com\/blog\/?p=116\">interview<\/a> both real and virtual people.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>A Swedish online dating company has made the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalliving.cnet.co.uk\/columns\/michaelparsons\/0,39030719,49283807,00.htm\">natural leap<\/a> from dating site with photos to Second Life dating world with avatars.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Scottish girl-rockers The Hedrons are the latest to put on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3pointd.com\/20060928\/scottish-girl-rockers-to-gig-in-second-life\/\">a virtual gig<\/a> inside Second Life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herewith, a roundup of recent Second Life-related news events, as the virtual world continues to get more &#8220;real&#8221; (for better or worse): The Economist has a long piece on Second Life, including a fascinating tale of a psychology professor who set up a place in Second Life where his students could experience something akin to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/28\/things-get-busy-in-second-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things get busy in Second Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}