Lee’s Second Life - “Finding the key”

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Lee Laperriere relaxes and reclines, watching another gorgeous sunrise from his new home.
Situated on a man-made island with nothing but a glorious view of the sea, and with a lovely little beach [...]

The CommsCafe has moved.
The US$40/month rent was just too high to sustain, and although the location was beautiful, it was time to find somewhere more economically sustainable for the Comms Cafe consultancy.
I had a brief chat with Gary Hazlitt (the same Gary that built the Bigpond islands and the ABC island) and he suggested a [...]

Today I had the very real and amazing privilege of being shown around the Rod Laver Arena that IBM built in Second Life.
To say it’s impressive is a massive understatement.
Having been invited by Brad Kasell who is Program Manager, Emerging Technologies (Asia-Pacific), IBM Software Group and the ‘big cheese’ behind it all, I was escorted [...]

One of the benefits of having a holiday break is that I get the chance to catch up with pod and vidcasts downloaded onto my ipod that I haven’t been able to listen or watch yet.
One such vidcast is from Joe Jaffe, the author of ‘Life After The Thirty-Second Spot’ and founding member of crayon, [...]

Research has found that many of the peculiarities and unwritten ‘rules’ of real-world interpersonal interaction are mirrored in virtual worlds.
Nick Yee and his team found similarities in how women-women, women-men and men-men behave, especially around the concepts of ‘personal space’ and ‘eye contact’ — and can read his paper (pdf) to find out more.
This [...]

There are many reasons to ignore Second Life:

It wastes many, many hours
It is mind numbingly slow
It is only for geeks and those who ‘need to get a life’
It will never take off

Mind you, those were all claims rendered at the WorldWideWeb by business and consumers, if I seem to remember correctly when I first became [...]

There are changes afoot in Second Life… at least around Podcast Island.
The two manager/owners of it are pulling down the Mall (where both FIR and the Cafe have/had a booth) and replacing it with something else.
So rather than wait around and see what they are going to build, I took it upon myself, as part [...]

Well, no one can say I haven’t been giving it a fair go…
I eventually found Shelville’s FIR booth on Podcaster’s Island on Second Life.
This is what their booth looks like — that’s me on the left. On a wooden crate. Probably getting a splinter in my derriere.

Here’s me sitting on the other side of their [...]