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ABC Island anniversary tonight!
That's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and not that other ABC in the United States of America. Partner and counterpart to the United Kingdom's BBC, "Aunty" ABC occupies a special place in the hearts of Australians. Oh, she gets some teasing sometimes -- but she's been with us since 1929 with Radio, Television, and the Web and has always excelled at embracing new media and finding ways to integrate old and new media together in new and compelling ways. As public broadcasters go, the ABC sports an impressive catalogue of high-quality educational programs, news, music and entertainment, and isn't shy about finding new ways to deliver them, with an increasing amount of content available on the Web or via Second Life.
An interview with Open Life's Steve Sima
The Metaverse Journal's Lowell Cremorne landed an interview with Steve Sima (aka Sakai Openlife), the founder of Australian-based Open Life grid - which, we note, is still apparently not quite working for new registrations - certainly, we've had no luck here - you can register, but not actually log in with it. Open Life currently operates on Open Simulator 0.5. Sima's plans involve full offline content creation (in fact, you can get a downloadable simulator from the website - though we don't believe the means exist to readily send that data anywhere as yet), and he is hotly anticipating the new viewer from RealXTend.
SLOZ gets new look, expands beat
SLOz.info, a fine source of Australian metaverse news for Second Life has expanded their coverage and rebranded as The Metaverse Journal. The pool of non-game Virtual Worlds/MMOs is getting larger - and deeper. While there's more going on in Second Life than ever, there's increasing interest and activity in other online worlds as well - as you've probably noticed from Massively! "The move to a wider focus came about from some reader feedback we sought. I'd be lying if said that Massively's launch didn't confirm for me the sense in that broader focus," said Cremorne
