Upcoming Reuters interviews: Tutu, Whitman, Keller (UPDATED TIMES)
Adam Reuters will conduct three major interviews in the coming weeks, part of a continuing series of Second Life conversations with the world’s newsmakers: eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman; Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu; and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller.
This week’s events from the AvaStar
A fashion show on an Egyptian island, football fever and more.
Linden to outsource Second Life orientation
Linden Lab plans to revamp the way it registers new residents by offering new users their choice of several privately-owned orientation islands, in an attempt to flatten Second Life’s notoriously steep learning curve.
New Reuters HUD has local content, personal RSS
Reuters has launched an updated version of its free Second Life heads-up display, the news HUD, now available at the Reuters island.
Congressional Democrats’ agenda gets SL stage
When the Democrats retake control of Congress this week they’ll have a virtual version of the U.S. Capitol to promote their agenda.
Warren Ellis to write weekly SL column for Reuters
Writer Warren Ellis, author of comic books, graphic novels, and two forthcoming novels, is bringing his “Second Life Sketches” to the Reuters Second Life News Center as a weekly column beginning next month.
The Grid Review brings animated newscasts to Second Life
Second Life received its own version of the nightly news this week with the launch of The Grid Review, a machinima news blog run by veteran directors moo Money and Nylon Pinkney which promises to run content ranging from “Peter Jennings to Jon Stewart.”
