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Two Dutch students, Sebastiaan Schelfaut and Matthias Buyle, who are studying architecture at the University of Ghent, Belgium, wrote to Arcada last week to ask if we would take part in a survey about our use of…

It all started with Prince, who gave away one million copies of his album Planet Earth cover-mounted to the Mail on Sunday in Britain on July 24th, but now that this strategy has apparently spread like wildfire, it is worth stopping to consider what the strategy actually is.

This afternoon, when I met with Stefan, he showed me the 0100101110101101.org virtual version of the Joseph Beuys project 7000 Oaks, which they had enacted in Second Life.

I had first heard of the SecondLifeLink application about a week ago and had determinedly ignored it. Finally, however, I had three invitations in Facebook to install it and “meet my friends virtually! see my friends’ avatars! share my favorite destinations!” So I stopped to think about it a bit more.

This afternoon I was chatting with Roberto Muffeletto on Skype. Roberto was at the LoW conference last week, and is now in Amsterdam. e sent me a (moderately) interesting photograph.

I have spent a good deal of time in the last couple of months searching for the kind of online scheduling tools that I wanted; and I think that I have finally found them. Or, more specifically, I think that I have found a set of tools that will form the basis of what I need: AirSet.

Two themes emerged at the LoW conference last week. Neither had been planned in advance, although some people who attended suspected otherwise. The first theme was Second Life as an educational tool. The second was identity.

Yesterday, at the fourth League of Worlds conference, I made a presentation entitled Augmentation, Immersion and Identity in Rosario: the trading card game, and the slide show is available at Zoho.

The makers of Plopp, modelling software designed for children have released PloppSL, which “allows you to create intriguing Sculpted Prims for SecondLife™ easily”.