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. Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
