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Brazilian opposition takes politics into Second Life
"Brazil’s main opposition party is taking the country’s often acrimonious politics into the virtual world even though there may still be few Brazilian Second Life residents."POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING IN THE METAVERSE
"With the next US Presidential elections just a year and a half away, primary campaigning has already begun in earnest-- in the Caucus and main primary states, and in Second Life."New World Notes: A SEXUAL CENSUS OF SECOND LIFE
"Seen this way, maybe 10% of this location depicts commercial content that is unambiguously sexual. (And this in a white hot center of avatar-based sensuality.) If it's just 10% here, how much smVirtual/Real World Control Panel In Second Life
"The real and virtual controllers are “entangled together through a Python web server” so that turning a knob on the physical controller affects the same knob on the virtual one." The membraOnline world as important to Internet users as real world?
"...the 2007 Digital Future Project found that 43 percent of Internet users who are members of online communities say that they “feel as strongly” about their virtual community as they do about tAre virtual worlds inhibiting real social progress?
"My concern is what happens to the world while we're waiting to upload into our digital utopias. The more realistic and appealing our virtual worlds, the more I fear people will avoid dealing witBlogged From Within SL
This may be a genuine first - a blog post to the real world, but made by someone through an interface within the virtual world 'Second Life'. This is a sign of things to come.