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A second life?

An active Second Life is wearing me out!! I am trying to participate in the Life 2.0 Fall Summit organized in Second Life (secondlife.com) by Dr. Dobb's, a CMP unit. The summit is co-sponsored by Sun and IBM developerWorks, see http://www.life20.net/.

Lessons learned so far:

1) chat conversations become overwhelming in a group of 50 avatars

2) many people have little or no idea of the meaning of "decision support"

3) change and developments are happening quickly in Second Life

4) holding a conference in Second Life has new unanticipated problems, much can go wrong

5) "the star trek museum of science is cool", thanks Kentar Vendetta

6) a script called brokken book shelf turns SL note cards inside a box into a popup menu, as per Lazric Lane

7) there is a Chinese version of Second Life called HiPiHi

8) chat is a horrible way to share technical information, too slow and too disorganized

9) sculpties are neat in SL and are low prim, seeing a sculpty helps one understand the possibilities for real life analogues and simulations

10) Qarl Linden brought sculpties to Second Life, "sculpties allow us to build unique shapes"

11) it is much more focused to attend real life conferences than it is to attend Second Life conferences. Somehow SL conferences need to become part of my job description or I need two display monitors for my computers so I can more easily multi-task. Ideally, my SL display monitor should be a 42" high rez display!

12) SL still crashes, especially at events with large numbers of avatars!

13) I have too many time conflicts when I try to attend SL events. The number of great SL events is continually increasing in number. Help!!!!!!!!!!!

In addition to trying to attend more Life 2.0 events all this week,

later today, Prof. Robert Bloomfield of Cornell is talking at Metaversed about "Metanomics 101" (whatever that is!);

on Tuesday, September 18th at 1:00PM, TechTalk@SL will have an event with guest Robbie Kiama, he will present a novel tool for social gridtagging "MetaHUD";

at 5:00 PM SLT Tuesday, I can meet with 1-800-Flowers Special Projects Director, Seth Lasser, at a program sponsored by SL Business Communicators.

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