Second Life daily news

• How many bots and campers? — A lot more than we thought.
• London Journalism School offers — Free journalism lectures.
• The big M — More Linden parodies.
• Dubai Women's College — Opening in Second Life.
• Linden Lab: Top 25 most democratic workplaces — Organizational Democracy in action.
• Editorial selection to supplant popular places — Promotion replaces algorithms.

• 10,392 new signups bringing the total to 13,427,707 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 62,236 at 1:55PM, and a minimum concurrency of 35,118 at 2:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 49,311.

The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.18 (lower is better). Not as great a day on the grid as Sunday, but quite respectable, nonetheless. The 1.21 rollout didn't work out as well as hoped, with Saturday somewhat marred by unallocated simulators stressing the databases until they were disabled. Accordingly, 1.21.1 will be rolled out onto Servers in the now-usual two-day phased-deployment pattern, starting at 5AM US Pacific time today.

Below is the day's concurrency graphed for yesterday (left), and the corresponding day from the previous week (right)

Recent users reported by Linden Lab (that is, users who have logged in at least once within the last 60 days) is 1,108,840. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 28 Apr 2008 at 23:59.

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