SECOND LIFE MADNESS!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042008/jobs/sight_unseen_289356.htm

"Last month Regina Spektor's album was the first virtual record release by a major company. BBC Radio 1 has 'rented' a tropical island within Second Life for a year, where the world's biggest virtual music festival was staged in parallel with the One Big Weekend event. While people attended the real concert in Dundee, the music by Franz Ferdinand, Pink and others was streamed live into Second Life, where 6,000 avatars crowded around a virtual stage, hosted by an avatar of DJ Chris Moyles and stewarded by computerised bouncers. Each left with a virtual digital radio to carry about inside Second Life."

"Linden Lab, the San Francisco company which launched Second Life in 2003, has rules against offensive behaviour in public, such as racial slurs or overtly sexual antics. Its punishment is unique. 'If someone is regularly abusive, we have a prison,' said vice-president Dave Fleck. 'They are put in a cornfield and made to watch black and white television Fifties public service announcements in a constant loop."

"Alayne Wartell, 42, of Harrogate, met her real-life husband in Second Life and now works full-time within it, earning a living from her virtual shoe and flower shop."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1816270,00.html


SIGHT UNSEEN
FIRMS TURN TO VIRTUAL-LIFE SITE FOR INTERVIEWS
By HANNAH SELIGSON


GO FIGURE: In Second Life interviews, candidates let their "avatars" do the talking.

February 4, 2008-- NATHAN Tia, a creative lead for Centric, a new-media agency, has never met his boss face to face. And it's not because he's an underperformer who hasn't been singled out for a pat on the back.
It's because Tia, who works from home, was hired through a "virtual interview," conducted on the Internet-based virtual world Second Life



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