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Dr Robert Geraci, the Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College, describes himself as: “Looking for signs of the Apocalypse at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute and in Second Life” and “Rewriting the study of religion, science & technology”.
This interesting man is researching Virtual Worlds, religion and AI.  It’s food for thought for all… religious, non, anti, Klingon and other […]

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The picketing of premises is part of any well-run large company’s risk management scenarios.  But in this new media environment companies can no longer ignore the power of the blog, the forum or the virtual world.
IBM is certainly no stranger to the virtual world of Second Life. They have a major presence there.
Still I wonder whether their […]

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I was just checking out the latest figures for Second Life, having heard a comment that the number of Australians had dropped over the last few months.  Based on the September figures released by Linden Labs, there are now just over 13,500 accounts registered to Australians. 
If all countries have a fairly similar number of residents using […]

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Vodafone has just introduced a new service into Second Life “SL” www.secondlife.com.  Called “Insider” it’s a way for residents to make and receive untrackable phone calls between the virtual world and this (the real) world. 
 
Being in SL myself, I know how much most residents appreciate chatting to each other without revealing their identity.   To communicate with someone out of the virtual world itself, […]

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Communication is very much at the crossroads - with social media and search challenging traditional media.  In this blog expect to see posts on anything to do with Online communication - from a variety of people on our blog team.
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