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Second Life attendees gather in real world (San Jose Mercury News)

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Written by Xavier Mohr   
Tuesday, 28 August 2007

By Kara Andrade
Mercury News

CHICAGO - Men wearing pink wigs and fishnet stockings, people dressed like red devils, vampires and fairies, and six-foot-tall furry dogs all showed that the real world could be just as unreal as the virtual one during the Second Life masquerade ball - part of the popular site's third annual Community Convention this past weekend.

The masquerade ball wrapped up the volunteer-run convention, which brought together 825 people, many of whom had only met in the virtual, 3-D world of Second Life. Boasting more than 9 million registered users on its Web site, San Francisco-based Linden Lab, which created Second Life, did not put on the event but provided support for it.

"This conference highlights that Second Life is social. It brings people together from around the globe that already know each other," said Dominic Scott of the United Kingdom, who goes by Katier Reitveld inside Second Life, where he works as a journalist.

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Of Second Life and Overhype (Warcry)

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Written by Xavier Mohr   
Monday, 27 August 2007

CNET has a story up that looks at the paradox of Second Life: Linden's belief that it will be bigger than the internet and their desire that the mainstream media not overhype their product. It's an interesting question for a game that gets more mainstream media attention than a game 116 times its size (World of Warcraft).

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Second Life sees its biggest crowd yet (Chicago Tribune)

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Written by Xavier Mohr   
Monday, 27 August 2007

By Steve Johnson, Tribune Internet critic

"Who has had sex in Second Life in this room? Show of hands," asked the moderator, a man who calls himself, inside the virtual world, Nexeus Fatale.

Nearly every one of the roughly 200 people in the Hilton's Boulevard Room raised a hand.

"The people who weren't raising their hands are all liars," Fatale said.

This was, granted, a self-selecting group, the subset of Second Life Community Convention-goers who chose to attend a panel on "Sex and Relationships in Virtual Worlds."

But still.

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Gamers need to keep it real (Dallas Morning News)

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Written by Xavier Mohr   
Sunday, 26 August 2007

Opinion by Russell D. Chapman of Plano, TX USA

Virtual worlds offer a chance to be something you're not - like someone who spends time with family, for example

In this place, people design their own physical appearance, assuming new and sometimes bizarre forms. Most men are about 7 feet tall, women about 6 feet. Everyone is as young, old, beautiful or strong as he or she wants to be.

Some are human in form, some look like ghostly samurai and some resemble Harvey, the invisible talking rabbit. Residents unsatisfied with their appearance can change at will, for a price, sometimes adding angel or butterfly wings, a prehensile tail, fox ears or other, more intimate, embellishments.

There are amusement parks, bars, office buildings, airports, nightclubs, lakes, islands, boats, hotels, roads, concerts, stores, cars, embassies, resorts, a stock exchange. People meet, work, play, marry. They engage in "adult" activities. They buy, develop, lease and sell land. They have their own currency. Their own newspapers inform them of community news and events. Residents establish and run businesses, create and sell products, provide services, all tax-free.

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Virtual World Comes to Life at Masquerade Ball (ABC News)

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Written by Xavier Mohr   
Sunday, 26 August 2007

Second Life Gets 'Real' at Conference

By WILLIAM MARRA

Two men dressed in furry rabbit costumes danced the night away. A scantily underclad female vampire gleefully played dominatrix to a male vampire who obediently sat on the floor and mischievously snarled at her. A man wearing retractable wings showed off his stuff, while another in a see-through top went around spanking people with a wooden paddle.

"It's just like being online at a party," said Marsha Ellstrom as she observed the scene Saturday night at the Second Life Community Convention's "Leather and Lace" Masquerade Ball here in Chicago.

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IBM Employees Might Strike...In Second Life (InformationWeek)

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Written by Xavier Mohr   
Saturday, 25 August 2007
By Mary Hayes Weier

IBM, like other businesses, plunged into Second Life partly in search of a new profit stream. I bet it never considered employees would use Second Life to strike the company.

The Register in the U.K. is reporting that a trade union that represents 9,000 IBM employees in Italy is planning to strike IBM next month in Second Life to protest its stance on salary increases.

Interesting stuff. My first thought was, that's kind of cowardly; why use the Web and a collection of avatars if you're trying to instigate real-life change? Norma Rae would be so disappointed. But actually, it's kinda clever. And creative. It shows that even with the business world's enthusiasm for Second Life, it remains a democracy.

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