Baba Sucks

That’s right. The libsecondlife website is now pretty. We’ve traded in the old CMS front page for a clean wiki. It took a bit of hacking on MediaWiki to get it to play nice with us, but in the end it’s a better platform for our needs. Less frontage and more substance.

Some nice functionality with the new layout is the ability to scale down to profile tab size as well as making the site more open to the rest of the community. Hopefully it will herald the end to outdated links because somebody(me) was too lazy or forgetful to update the static pages.

Please send any issues you my have with the new layout to me at baba@libsecondlife.org.

The Reuters news, about Reuters the news agency, continues to cause waves. Yahoo has a story on their main page covering the event, as do several other major newspapers and online news sites. The barrage of press(mostly Yahoo) has hit the Second Life web-server like a sledgehammer. 

Meanwhile, the techies seem a bit more apathetic to it all if not downright dismissive, "What's next Third Life? lawl." 

Perhaps they're not aware of libsecondlife ( http://www.libsecondlife.org ) just yet.

3pointD reports that Reuters has come to Second Life, and it seems they plan to stick around. One of their first stories covers the US Congress launching a probe into virtual economies(I'm sure that's not all they're launching *nudge wink*). It's all kind of dry, but if you're interested in virtual world economies, give it a read.

This is an exerpt of the interesting bits,

“I found that talking about this issue with some of the other economists on the committee, they are not really familiar with what a virtual economy is. The idea of Second Life or World of Warcraft or some of these other synthetic universes, they have trouble wrapping their head around it. So there’s an educational hurdle to overcome here,” he said.

However, there are probably some on Capitol Hill who won’t require much explanation.

“I can almost guarantee that there are some members of Congress spending time in Second Life or World of Warcraft,” Miller said. 

Daniel Terdiman(GreeterDan Godel in Second Life) talks about how there came to be this CNET building in SL

The CNET building in Second Life looks just like the real thing I'm told.

The building stands in Millions Of Us, check it out after the event. 

 Transcripts will be available soon. Eric was quick to the draw with this one. Transcript at ericrice.com