Archive for the ‘second life’ Category

Virtual contacts made Ward Wood Publishing a reality

Adele Ward | 4:48 pm 05 Jul 10 Comments 1

Is Second Life still useful for authors and publishers? It depends how you use it, argues Adele Ward – who has recently used virtual contacts to make her new business, Ward Wood Publishing, a reality.

Tags: Adele Ward, Ann Alexander, Cinnamon Press, London School of Journalism, LSJ, Mike Fortune-Wood, Mike Horwood, second life, Sue Guiney, Ward Wood Publishing —

London School of Journalism goes virtual

Adele Ward | 12:00 am 05 Feb 09 Comments 3

The London School of Journalism is showing just how Second Life can be used to enhance online learning with a series of free lectures which are proving extremely popular. Unusual though it may look to anyone who hasn’t tried teaching or learning in the virtual world, SL offers advantages over other distance learning methods that [...]

what the papers don’t say

Adele Ward | 3:58 pm 15 Dec 08 Comments 6

A quick read of the newspapers recently for any Second Life articles could make you decide it’s not the place for anyone thinking of using this virtual world for serious business or activities. Like the rest of the internet, 3D internet contains all things, and journalists can find sleaze or high culture, and all the levels [...]

Nature’s new islands

Jon Reed | 8:13 pm 10 Oct 08 Comments 3

Well, the offices never looked like this when I worked at Macmillan. Last night, Nature Publishing Group unveiled the new enhanced Macmillan presence in virtual world Second Life at a champagne and canapé fuelled launch in London.
One of the questions raised in the discussion afterwards was ’should we make virtual worlds more – or less [...]

Second Life in real life…

Jon Reed | 8:25 am 31 Jan 08 Comments 6

OK, so who’s had a go in Second Life? I’m in, but haven’t spent that much time there yet. My avatar name is Jonn Petrov, if you want to look me up.
Second Life may be a sort of social networking / instant messaging hybrid, but it’s wrapped in a complex 3D graphical interface that makes [...]

Second Life gets a new voice

Jon Reed | 7:51 pm 14 Jun 07 Comments Off

I mused in a previous posting that Second Life would get more interesting once the environment became more realistic, and when you could actually speak to people, using your voice, rather than typing. Well, nearly four years after the metaverse launched, voice chat is finally here!
I first heard about this at the Blogs and Social [...]

tune in, mash up, buy out

Jon Reed | 7:58 pm 03 Jun 07 Comments 1

A quick news round-up, and an update on a couple of previous postings. I mentioned Tim Guest’s book Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds in a recent post. It publishes this week, and is the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 in the UK. This stuff is mainstream! Catch it if you [...]

are you connected?

Jon Reed | 3:32 pm 19 May 07 Comments Off

With Prince William joining Facebook this week, social networking sites have hit the news in the UK again. Here’s a handy overview of Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Twitter and Second Life, written by their users, from this week’s Guardian newspaper:
With websites such as Facebook and MySpace constantly being talked about in the media, it must be [...]

Second Life – a place for reading

Jon Reed | 2:57 pm 18 May 07 Comments 1

Last week it was Macmillan topping the charts on YouTube. This week it’s Random House getting into Second Life. It’s good to see traditional publishers engaging with social media in this way. According to this week’s Bookseller, Random House held the first of their monthly virtual book group meetings in Second Life on Tuesday, with [...]

Second Life Book Fair (no, really)

Jon Reed | 3:00 pm 20 Apr 07 Comments 3

OK, if we’ve all finished with the hoopla of this year’s London Book Fair and all the agonising over the digital future of the book (so five years ago), here’s something to make Margaret Atwood choke on her bathwater:
Second Life Book Fair
20-22 April 2007

It’s the inaugural one. Organised by Poinky Malaprop, with involvement from Selina [...]