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  <tagline>Wagner James Au reports first-hand on the next generation of the Net-- Second Life.</tagline>

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    <title>James Bond Villainess Fashion Spread (With Neko Flavor)</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-17T07:30:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-17T10:28:01Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-17T14:30:00Z</created>
    <summary>Stacia Villota, the Virtual Neko, has another fab SL fashion spread inspired by cinema (here's what she did with Blade Runner), but this time, it's a spin on a James Bond femme fatale. Since she is a Neko, Ms. Villota's...</summary>
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      <name>SLHamlet</name>
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    <dc:subject>SL blogger link</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>SL Fashion</dc:subject>



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  <entry>
    <title>Friday Open Forum: SL Bloggers, What Post Provoked the Most Controversy, and Why?</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-17T06:12:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-17T10:15:50Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-17T13:12:00Z</created>
    <summary>Since it's SL Blogger Friday on New World Notes, this open forum is directed at all my fellow Second Life bloggers: what post you wrote caused the most controversy, and why? (Preferably not nasty interpersonal drama, but strenuous disagreement.) Bonus...</summary>
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      <name>SLHamlet</name>
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    <dc:subject>Open Forum</dc:subject>



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  <entry>
    <title>Upcoming Second Life/OpenSimulator Events</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-17T02:42:06-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-17T09:51:50Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-17T09:42:06Z</created>
    <summary>This coming Saturday, January 18 at 6:00 AM SLT, in the much-loved SL village of Drowsy made by Japanese Residents, there will be an Obon celebration, a Buddhist tradition when, as Wikipedia explains, "the spirits of ancestors are supposed to...</summary>
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      <name>SLHamlet</name>
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    <dc:subject>Events</dc:subject>



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  <entry>
    <title>Sketchlife Creator Discusses Her Sketchup-to-SL Tool</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-16T23:41:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-17T07:56:11Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-17T06:41:00Z</created>
    <summary>Tuesday's post about Sketchlife, an impressive system that converts Google Sketchup models into Second Life, generated a lot of questions, but fortunately its creator, known in SL as "Mrs Brandi", has arrived here to answer them.</summary>
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      <name>SLHamlet</name>
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    <dc:subject>NWN Site Info/Projects</dc:subject>



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  <entry>
    <title>Who is Grace McDunnough (Besides a Great and Innovative Musician Who Only Performs in Second Life)?</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-16T10:41:16-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-16T18:03:17Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-16T17:41:16Z</created>
    <summary>The woman known as Grace McDunnough in Second Life was born singing, but the strange thing is, she needed to become an avatar, to make that talent known. "As a child I remember being told in school repeatedly to 'stop...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Avatars and Identity</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>SL Music</dc:subject>



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  <entry>
    <title>Open Forum: Have Bots and Camping Chairs Gone Away?</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-16T06:00:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-16T10:54:33Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-16T13:00:00Z</created>
    <summary>It's been at least three months since the Lindens banned bots and free L$ camping chairs, and it's one of many items on my To Do ledger to see how far that policy took. What's your sense, dear reader? Have...</summary>
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      <name>SLHamlet</name>
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    <dc:subject>Open Forum</dc:subject>



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  <entry>
    <title>Koinup's Most Popular Second Life Sims Last Week</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-16T03:30:19-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-16T10:30:19Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-16T10:30:19Z</created>
    <summary>Koinup: Your Virtual Life From NWN partner Koinup, here's the sims in Second Life that members of the social network visited most last week, with more pics and SLurl at each link: Drowsy Wretched Hollow Seoraksan Forbidden Thorn Pillars of...</summary>
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      <name>SLHamlet</name>
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    <dc:subject>Most Popular SL Sims - Koinup</dc:subject>



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    <title>Katharine Berry Creates IRC-to-Second Life Chat Bridge</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-15T15:23:46-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-15T22:30:20Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-15T22:23:46Z</created>
    <summary>Want to chat with someone in Teen Second Life? You can if you hit this link, and more importantly, if anyone in TSL is in range of a listening object created by Miss Katharine Berry, the 17 year old wunderkind...</summary>
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      <name>SLHamlet</name>
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    <dc:subject>Open Source/Reverse Engineer</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Web 2.0 meets SL</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Web Resource</dc:subject>



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  <entry>
    <title>How To Get Subtle Facial Expressions From SL Avatars</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-15T12:57:12-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-15T20:00:00Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-15T19:57:12Z</created>
    <summary>Melanie Kidd has a very useful tutorial for displaying subtle emotional expressions in your avatar, simply through tweaking the default customization sliders. (To achieve a stern look, for example, you start by making the avatar's eyes and lip width slightly...</summary>
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      <name>SLHamlet</name>
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    <dc:subject>Avatars and Identity</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Web Resource</dc:subject>



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  <entry>
    <title>Kanomi Plays: Roleplay Gaming Combat System Called RPCS</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-15T09:56:23-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-15T17:01:03Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-15T16:56:23Z</created>
    <summary>Kanomi Pikjuna plays Second Life's most promising games Title: Roleplay Combat System (RPCS) Released: 2009 Genre: Sim-level gamemaster tool set for roleplaying games Age Category: N/A Summary: Turn your lackluster sim into an action packed WoW-a-thon! Price: Free for players...</summary>
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      <name>SLHamlet</name>
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    <dc:subject>Gaming the System</dc:subject>



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  <entry>
    <title>Open Forum: What Other Virtual Worlds Besides Second Life Are You Interested In, and Why?</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-15T06:00:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-15T07:39:48Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-15T13:00:00Z</created>
    <summary>Occasionally I write about other virtual worlds besides SL and OpenSim, in posts cleverly entitled Other World Notes. While SL and its open source variants remain endlessly fascinating and exciting to me, other worlds intrigue me as well, especially if...</summary>
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      <name>SLHamlet</name>
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    <dc:subject>Open Forum</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Other World Notes</dc:subject>



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    <title>Sketchlife Converts Google Sketchup Models Into Second Life</title>
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    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef01157110a4f1970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-14T15:43:29-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-14T23:02:40Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-14T22:43:29Z</created>
    <summary>Sketchlife is billed as an application that can convert 3D models made with Google Sketchup to Second Life -- a much-desired feature for many content creators, especially those who want more file interoperability for their SL works. It's a product...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Web 2.0 meets SL</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Web Resource</dc:subject>



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  <entry>
    <title>Unconsumed: Just 465K of Second Life's Active Residents Spend L$ In-World, Under 200K Spend USD$10+/Mo in L$</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-14T11:18:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-14T20:48:01Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-14T18:18:00Z</created>
    <summary>Here's a quick stat snapshot of Second Life activity in-world last month, mentioned last week over the departure from SL of metaverse developer Rezzable, but worth restating here. While some 750,000 or so unique users are logging into Second Life...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Economics of SL</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Open Forum:  Got an Upcoming Second Life/OpenSimulator Event to Promote? Post Details Here!</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-14T10:02:11-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-14T17:02:11Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-14T17:02:11Z</created>
    <summary>Once again, I'm creating this week's Second Life/OpenSim event calendar in Chestnut Rau's stead, and would love some help. What major events are happening between this Thursday and next Wednesday? Please post the main details in Comments, with SLurls and...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Open Forum</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Other World Notes: World of Warcraft and Second Life Don’t Tell the Whole MMO Story</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-14T06:05:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-15T07:03:56Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-14T13:05:00Z</created>
    <summary>GigaOM: WoW and Second Life Don’t Tell the Whole MMO Story This is my latest post for GigaOM, a prelude to a much more extensive virtual worlds analysis paper on the site's new subscription service. Basically, my argument is that...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Other World Notes</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Want to Work at Amazon?   Its Second Life Job Fair Is Today</title>
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    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011572025daa970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-14T02:41:55-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-14T09:44:29Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-14T09:41:55Z</created>
    <summary>I mentioned this briefly in last week's events calendar, but in these recessionary times, it bears repeating: starting today at 6am SLT to Midnight, online retail giant Amazon.com is holding a real world jobs fair in Second Life, on the...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Real World Applications of SL</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Real world in SL</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Trouble Viewing NWN in Google Chrome?  Clear Private Data!</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/burning-chrome-solution.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef0115710be7ee970c" title="Trouble Viewing NWN in Google Chrome?  Clear Private Data!" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef0115710be7ee970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-13T20:20:48-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-14T03:21:53Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-14T03:20:48Z</created>
    <summary>New World Notes' kudos to Galatea Gynoid and Dupe Dollinger, who separately offered a solution to my Google Chrome woes. If you're unable to display NWN in Chrome, hit the wrench icon, select Clear browsing data, expunge it all, and...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>NWN Site Info/Projects</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Web Resource</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>LA Artist Renders Second Life Locations Into Striking Abstract Expressionist Paintings</title>
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    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571ff335c970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-13T16:59:14-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-14T00:33:53Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-13T23:59:14Z</created>
    <summary>What you're looking at here is a representation of a location in Second Life, rendered into a vibrant, abstract expressionist painting. This particular one is derived from Caledon, the steampunk empire, and it's the work of Los Angeles-based artist Kris...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Art projects in SL</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Mixed Reality Mondays</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Mixed Reality Profile</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>SL Music Stars Rock Active Worlds Tomorrow @ 10AM SLT</title>
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    <issued>2009-07-13T14:56:38-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-13T21:57:05Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-13T21:56:38Z</created>
    <summary>After hitting Twinity last month, NWN partner Koinup is taking the Second Life rockstar tour bus to another virtual world, one of the very originals: Active Worlds, which has existed in various forms for nearly 15 years. (Specifically Active Worlds...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Mixed Reality Mondays</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>NWN Partner News and Announcements</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Other World Notes</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Real World Navigation System For Japanese Hospital Created With OpenSim Metaverse Technology</title>
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    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571fe9699970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-13T11:59:46-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-13T19:18:15Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-13T18:59:46Z</created>
    <summary>Anyone who's gotten lost on a sprawling college campus or another kind of large complex knows the frustrations with trying to read those 2D directory maps with a "You are here" red dot, because it's difficult to discern where "here"...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Mixed Reality Mondays</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Open Sim</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Open Source/Reverse Engineer</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Real World Applications of SL</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Open Forum: Have You Ever Learned About Major Real World News While In a Virtual World?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/mixed-reality-news.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571fc028e970b" title="Open Forum: Have You Ever Learned About Major Real World News While In a Virtual World?" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571fc028e970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-13T06:04:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-13T08:35:59Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-13T13:04:00Z</created>
    <summary>Emerald Wynn was recently at Second Life's Hair Fair, the fashion fundraiser which this year had a candy-land theme, when she received some news that shocked her in both worlds: [A] friend messaged me with the news that Michael Jackson...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Mixed Reality Mondays</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Open Forum</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>My Five Favorite Things From New World Notes Last Week...</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/weekly-recap-1.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef0115710768c0970c" title="My Five Favorite Things From New World Notes Last Week..." />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef0115710768c0970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-12T22:17:07-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-13T05:17:07Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-13T05:17:07Z</created>
    <summary>Masterful machinima: For the love of God, watch this new Lainy Voom soon. Live music ranting: Readers praise and prick the best and worst of Second Life's music scene. Virtual economy de-Rezzes: Last of the retail-oriented metaverse development companies leaves...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Weekly Recap</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Weekend Machinima: Lainy Voom Plays With Time In "Push"</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/weekend-machinima.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571f5403c970b" title="Weekend Machinima: Lainy Voom Plays With Time In &quot;Push&quot;" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571f5403c970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-11T12:12:47-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-11T19:17:02Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-11T19:12:47Z</created>
    <summary>Push (Mini Project 4) from Lainy Voom on Vimeo Watch this movie now if you want strange dreams, and have your imagination expanded. It's called "Push", Lainy Voom's latest short machinima experiment. In this one, she shot footage in just...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>SL Machinima</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>NWN in Japanese:セカンドライフにあって、Twitterにないもの：個性、粘着力、収益性</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/jpn-twitter-versus-sl.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011570f773bc970c" title="NWN in Japanese:セカンドライフにあって、Twitterにないもの：個性、粘着力、収益性" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011570f773bc970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-11T12:12:04-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-11T19:12:24Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-11T19:12:04Z</created>
    <summary>＜オリジナル英文記事＞「Twitterにあって、セカンドライフになかったもの」C...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Sanny Yoshikawa</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>ニューワールドノート　日本語版</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How Dylan Rickenbacker Recovered From Second Life Addiction (And Still Managed To Stay in SL)</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/rickenbacker-addiction.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571f0976e970b" title="How Dylan Rickenbacker Recovered From Second Life Addiction (And Still Managed To Stay in SL)" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571f0976e970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-10T16:23:42-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-10T23:27:03Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-10T23:23:42Z</created>
    <summary>Dylan Rickenbacker wrote a harrowing, four-part story of Second Life addiction, which begins here, and proceeds to successive chapters from the bottom of each installment. A talented and successful freelance writer in real life, Second Life begins as a work...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Real world in SL</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>SL blogger link</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Coming of Age in Second Life (Or, One Reason Teen SL Hasn't Grown)</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/arwyn.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011570fa899c970c" title="Coming of Age in Second Life (Or, One Reason Teen SL Hasn't Grown)" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011570fa899c970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-10T13:02:07-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-10T20:05:17Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-10T20:02:07Z</created>
    <summary>Teen Second Life blogger Arwyn Quandry mentioned this post of hers, "Coming of Age in Second Life", as a personal favorite, and she's right to do so. She writes how she discovered SL (with some gratifying props to me), but...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>SL blogger link</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Social Structures, Social Upheaval</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>What Is Self-Actualization In Second Life?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/sl-selfactualization.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571ebd8d6970b" title="What Is Self-Actualization In Second Life?" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571ebd8d6970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-10T08:30:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-10T12:16:31Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-10T15:30:00Z</created>
    <summary>ArminasX Saiman has a trenchant and clever post that spins off from Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. (Above, I took the liberty of ganking them together-- Maslow's at left, from Wikipedia, Saiman's at right, from his Second Effects blog.) As...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Avatars and Identity</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>SL blogger link</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Need a Translator HUD?  Here's Seven Product Reviews</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/translator.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571ebd3cf970b" title="Need a Translator HUD?  Here's Seven Product Reviews" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571ebd3cf970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-10T07:30:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-10T11:48:00Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-10T14:30:00Z</created>
    <summary>If you're looking to communicating across Second Life's many language barriers, Apollo Manga (love the name) comprehensively reviewed seven of them a few months ago. A couple are free, but Mr. Manga says they work quite well compared to the...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Scripting</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Open Forum: Second Life Bloggers, What's Your Favorite Post You've Written, and Why?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/open-forum-4.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571ebcedf970b" title="Open Forum: Second Life Bloggers, What's Your Favorite Post You've Written, and Why?" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571ebcedf970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-10T04:36:32-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-10T11:36:32Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-10T11:36:32Z</created>
    <summary>Fellow bloggers, what Second Life-related post did you write in recent months that has a special place in your heart for any reason? It was popular, it was influential, it was deeply personal, anything: please post here, and explains why....</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Open Forum</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>New World Tableau:  Shoji Kumaki's "My Dear Barcelona 17"</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/new-world-tableau.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011570f68cff970c" title="New World Tableau:  Shoji Kumaki's &quot;My Dear Barcelona 17&quot;" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011570f68cff970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-09T23:58:48-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-10T06:58:48Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-10T06:58:48Z</created>
    <summary>Recently found in my New World Tableau group on Koinup, this utterly lovely Tableau by Shoji Kumaki, "My Dear Barcelona 17", was taken from a sim of the same name. (Click here for SLurl and different image sizes.) "I love...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>New World Tableau</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Upcoming Second Life Events: Bryn Oh's Latest Artwork, Salon's Scott Rosenberg On Blogs, Amazon Job Fair</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/upcoming-second-life-events-.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571e7da63970b" title="Upcoming Second Life Events: Bryn Oh's Latest Artwork, Salon's Scott Rosenberg On Blogs, Amazon Job Fair" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571e7da63970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-09T16:21:46-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-10T07:02:11Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-09T23:21:46Z</created>
    <summary>What strange and sad beauty does Ms. Oh have for us beyond this entrance? I'm a poor substitute for NWN Events doyenne Chestnut Rau, who's on vacation, but I am pretty sure these are five potentially great Second Life events...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Events</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title> Daniel Voyager's Second Life-Related Twitter Directory</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/twitter-compilation.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011570f1e51b970c" title=" Daniel Voyager's Second Life-Related Twitter Directory" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011570f1e51b970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-09T11:31:10-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-09T18:32:11Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-09T18:31:10Z</created>
    <summary>Daniel Voyager has a very handy directory of Second Life-related Twitter accounts, including a couple dozen Lindens and a dozen-plus others. Interestingly, with less than a thousand followers, Second Life founder Philip Linden is not the most influential Linden Twitterer;...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Web 2.0 meets SL</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Web Resource</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Admin Question: If You Use Google Chrome, Can You Read New World Notes In It?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/admin-question.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571e687f8970b" title="Admin Question: If You Use Google Chrome, Can You Read New World Notes In It?" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571e687f8970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-09T11:01:09-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-09T19:10:33Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-09T18:01:09Z</created>
    <summary>I love Google's Chrome browser generally speaking, but for some reason, one of my laptops recently decided to stop displaying New World Notes in it, instead coughing up a "This webpage is not available" message with an "Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET)"...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>NWN Site Info/Projects</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Open Forum: Is Mistrusting Anonymous Avatars "Discrimination", or Common Sense (or Both)?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/open-forum-3.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571e40935970b" title="Open Forum: Is Mistrusting Anonymous Avatars &quot;Discrimination&quot;, or Common Sense (or Both)?" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571e40935970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-09T04:15:26-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-09T11:22:27Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-09T11:15:26Z</created>
    <summary>Image credit: H+ Magazine and G. Miller Transhumanist magazine H+ has a very interesting article which features two Second Life avatars very well known here: Scope Cleaver, the SL architect whose virtual creations for Princeton and other real world organizations...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Avatars and Identity</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>SL Media Mentions</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>IndieSpectrum Site Streams Second Life Musicians</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/indiespectrum.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571e26173970b" title="IndieSpectrum Site Streams Second Life Musicians" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571e26173970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-08T23:59:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-09T08:12:10Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-09T06:59:00Z</created>
    <summary>We started today talking about the things we like and dislike about Second Life's live music scene -- a Comment thread well worth reading -- so may as well finish Wednesday with two more on the ledger's plus side: I...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>SL Music</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Web Resource</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Legendary Artist Chris Marker Admires Second Life Machinima, Contemplates Metaverse Transcendance</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/chris-marker-in-second-life.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571dcbe5c970b" title="Legendary Artist Chris Marker Admires Second Life Machinima, Contemplates Metaverse Transcendance" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571dcbe5c970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-08T14:28:44-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-09T03:54:57Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-08T21:28:44Z</created>
    <summary>Waiting for Monsieur Marker on his Second Life home near a jetty Chris Marker, the extremely exclusive French artist who created the masterpiece short film La Jetée (it was the basis for Terry Gilliam's great movie 12 Monkeys), is an...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Art projects in SL</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Real world in SL</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Still Loving Seraphine's Second Life Cartoon Musings</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/seraphine-second-life-comic.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011570e7a860970c" title="Still Loving Seraphine's Second Life Cartoon Musings" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011570e7a860970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-08T12:19:05-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-08T19:26:52Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-08T19:19:05Z</created>
    <summary>A bit like Ghost World but rendered with Second Life screenshots, Ms. Seraphine Khorana has been offering acerbically witty commentary in cartoon form for nearly two years. (Above, an excerpt from Monday's entry.) I sometimes wish her avatars were avatars...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Art projects in SL</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>SL blogger link</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Web Resource</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Koinup's Most Popular Second Life Sims Last Week</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/koinups-most-popular-second-life-sims-last-week-1.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011570e74f45970c" title="Koinup's Most Popular Second Life Sims Last Week" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011570e74f45970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-08T11:13:04-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-08T18:14:30Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-08T18:13:04Z</created>
    <summary>Koinup: Your Virtual Life From NWN partner Koinup, here's the sims in Second Life that members of the social network visited most last week. (Unsurprisingly, two were from SL6B, the celebration site for Second Life's sixth birthday.) More pics and...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Most Popular SL Sims - Koinup</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Open Forum: What Do You Like Most About Live Music in Second Life?  What Do You Like Least?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/open-forum-live-music-.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571da3e69970b" title="Open Forum: What Do You Like Most About Live Music in Second Life?  What Do You Like Least?" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571da3e69970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-08T08:49:53-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-08T15:49:53Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-08T15:49:53Z</created>
    <summary>Last week, Delinda Dyrssen suggested an open forum on SL's vibrant live music scene, an excellent topic indeed. What do you like most about music in Second Life? What do you like least? For myself, I most like it when...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Open Forum</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>SL Music</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Which Second Life Viewer Rezzes Fastest?  Ari's 60 Second Test Suggests Snowglobe</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/rezzed-in-60-seconds.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011570e010ee970c" title="Which Second Life Viewer Rezzes Fastest?  Ari's 60 Second Test Suggests Snowglobe" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011570e010ee970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-07T15:40:42-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-07T22:41:55Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-07T22:40:42Z</created>
    <summary>Ari Blackthorne of Common Sensible just sent me these frame grabs, based on a "60 second test" of four leading Second Life viewers: the official Linden viewer, the GreenLife Emerald Viewer, the Gemini viewer, and Snowglobe, the Lindens' new open...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Open Source/Reverse Engineer</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Web Resource</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Open Forum: Want to Promote a Second Life/OpenSimulator Event This Week?  Post Details Here!</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/open-forum-2.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011570dfc40b970c" title="Open Forum: Want to Promote a Second Life/OpenSimulator Event This Week?  Post Details Here!" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011570dfc40b970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-07T13:31:43-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-07T20:33:10Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-07T20:31:43Z</created>
    <summary>New World Notes events writer Chestnut Rau is on Summer vacation until July 30th, and I'll be doing my best to cover for her until then. So I ask you, dear readers, to help me out. What big Second Life...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Open Forum</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>De-Rezzed:  Despite Popularity, Rezzable (Mostly) Leaves Second Life for OpenSim</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/derezzed.html" />
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    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571d3c5a2970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-07T11:24:49-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-07T18:30:42Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-07T18:24:49Z</created>
    <summary>An elegy for Crimson Shadows, soon to leave Second Life Sad news, but not surprising: renowned virtual world experience creator Rezzable is all but leaving Second Life soon. With the exception of Greenies, the UK studio's giant-sized play land, the...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Economics of SL</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Other World Notes: Starcraft/Warcraft Machinima Parody Gets Massive Views</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/other-world-notes.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011570dcf5ac970c" title="Other World Notes: Starcraft/Warcraft Machinima Parody Gets Massive Views" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011570dcf5ac970c</id>
    <issued>2009-07-07T06:00:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-07T09:34:05Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-07T13:00:00Z</created>
    <summary>NEWTEEVEE: Starcraft Trailer Parody Promotes Warcraft Fan Machinima If you're a fan of Starcraft, World of Warcraft, or machinima generally, you'll probably enjoy this post I just did for NewTeeVee; it's about how a team of brothers created an impressive...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Other World Notes</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Rezzable Help Wanted: Virtual Experience Designer in UK</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/rezzable-help-wanted.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571d10ca7970b" title="Rezzable Help Wanted: Virtual Experience Designer in UK" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571d10ca7970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-06T23:54:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-07T07:12:27Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-07T06:54:00Z</created>
    <summary>If you're metaverse savvy and you're based in the UK (or have a permit to work there), my friends at NWN partner Rezzable may want to hire you: they're looking for a Virtual Experience Designer to expand their OpenSim-based Heritage...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Mixed Reality Mondays</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>NWN Partner News and Announcements</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Open Sim</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Why Simulcast a Shareholder Meeting Into Second Life?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/shareholder-meeting.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571cc4eb6970b" title="Why Simulcast a Shareholder Meeting Into Second Life?" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571cc4eb6970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-06T14:47:22-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-06T22:00:51Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-06T21:47:22Z</created>
    <summary>What you're watching in this video is a recent shareholder meeting of NIC, a 600 employee-strong, Kansas-based provider of eGovernment web portals, streamed via audio into Second Life, delivered by an avatar representing NIC's CEO Harry Herington, to an audience...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Economics of SL</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Mixed Reality Mondays</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Real World Applications of SL</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>SL Machinima</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The Mixed Reality Desktop of Qarl Linden</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/mixed-reality-qarl.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571cb8b83970b" title="The Mixed Reality Desktop of Qarl Linden" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571cb8b83970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-06T11:05:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-06T18:18:48Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-06T18:05:00Z</created>
    <summary>Happy Mixed Reality Monday, everyone; here's an apropos screenshot to start your week off right: it's what Linden Lab developer Qarl Linden sees, when he logs into his desktop computer at work. It's running Second Life, and it's currently displaying...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Mixed Reality Mondays</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>SL blogger link</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Seven Things To Know About Second Life From Last Week...</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/weekly-recap.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571c74269970b" title="Seven Things To Know About Second Life From Last Week..." />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571c74269970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-06T06:00:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-06T07:46:38Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-06T13:00:00Z</created>
    <summary>Linden Lab worth $658-700 Million, says research firm. Drew Carey, TV star, acclaimed comedian -- patron of Second Life steampunk. Second Life is what Twitter isn't: Unique, sticky, profitable. The singularity comes to SLCC! (I.E., Ray Kurzweil to keynote at...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Weekly Recap</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>NWN in Japanese:Other World Notes: Blue Mars とユーザーが生み出すコンテンツ</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/jpn-other-world-notes-2.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571a20303970b" title="NWN in Japanese:Other World Notes: Blue Mars とユーザーが生み出すコンテンツ" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571a20303970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-05T23:55:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-06T07:44:06Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-06T06:55:00Z</created>
    <summary>〈オリジナル英文記事〉最近の記事で、ニューワールドノート読者の何人かが、ユーザー...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Sanny Yoshikawa</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>ニューワールドノート　日本語版</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Open Forum: What July 4th Weekend Second Life Events Are You Attending?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/open-forum-1.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571b5814e970b" title="Open Forum: What July 4th Weekend Second Life Events Are You Attending?" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571b5814e970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-04T06:00:00-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-04T08:53:34Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-04T13:00:00Z</created>
    <summary>What SL events will you be participating in this weekend, and when/where will they kick off? (For some ideas, Ms. Chestnut Rau has a great guide of upcoming SL events here.) Please post the details here, for possible highlighting in...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Events</dc:subject>



  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Koinup Photography Contest: Portraits of Virtual Water</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/koinup-contest.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://www.typepad.com/t/atom/weblog/blog_id=310941/entry_id=6a00d8341bf74053ef011571b57d51970b" title="Koinup Photography Contest: Portraits of Virtual Water" />
    <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf74053ef011571b57d51970b</id>
    <issued>2009-07-04T01:39:11-07:00</issued>
    <modified>2009-07-04T08:39:47Z</modified>
    <created>2009-07-04T08:39:11Z</created>
    <summary>Here's a fun photography contest for the Summer, sponsored by NWN partner Koinup: The H20 Contest. Take photographs on any Second Life sim, as long as it reflects the contest theme of water or H2O. Top three entrants split a...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>SLHamlet</name>
    </author>
    <dc:subject>Contests</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>NWN Partner News and Announcements</dc:subject>



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