Mandela’s Freedom in Virtual Worlds

“The world needs symbols. The world needs to highlight the best values we can find in certain human beings. And we have them as a reference of what we would like to be. Mandela is one of those”, says Graca Marcel (his wife) who shares his life. On 18 July 2008, the world’s ‘Madiba’ turns [...]

Respecting Land Owners in Second Life…

Have you spoken to a few owners of virtual land in Second Life (R) the past month or two? In developing a new media strategy and virtual world presence, we follow the trends as closely as possible, and it is with some distress and a pinch of interest that we listen to the discontent of [...]

Cory’s Challenge to Second Life - Public Gain or Organisational Loss??

It was with a sense of usual Second Life excitement - that some great new thing is happening! - that Uthango’s representatives attended the recent introduction of the “Second Life and Public Good” Community Challenge” sponsored by the USC Network Culture Project. On 6 May 2008 Cory Ondrejka, a fellow at USC introduced the [...]