Links for February 26th 2009 through March 6th 2009: Australians spend much more time online | Australian IT - “The Nielsen Online Internet and Technology Report surveyed more than 2000 Australians and found the average Aussie spent 89.2 hours a week consuming media last year or almost 80 per ...

Second Life news stand One of the more popular objects that I created in Second Life is the News Stand. This charming device takes any query term and displays the two latest headlines from Yahoo! News. Clicking the news stand will load the top news story for the topic in a web browser. I’ve go...

Filed under: Fun & activities It's Friday and time to think about weekend activities. Here are some considerations as adapted from reviews and ratings by Common Sense Media. At the Movies Like the book on which it is based, The Velveteen Rabbit examines complicated family relationships with a ch...

Here's some technologies that will impact us in the future that I am keeping my eye on. Some of these are around today but just haven’t hit prime time, others are in the works. Internet 3.0 The web will transform......

Filed under: Computers, Video Games Another day, another marriage ruined by the Internet. Not surprisingly, the online virtual world 'Second Life,' in particula,r seems to be destroying the holy bond of matrimony every chance it gets. We can add the tale of UK couple John and Lisa Best to the list o...

Filed under: Preschoolers, Kids 5-7, Toys & games, That's entertainment Parents who worry that their children are spending too much time in front of a screen now have about 200 more reasons to worry. That's the number of virtual online worlds for kids that are either active, in development or be...

Josh Harris has created a documentary We Live in Public , about the possibility of the virtual world taking over society in the future, which premiered this week at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival:...

Filed under: Computers One day, someone will teach a college class on the sociological implications of 'Second Life.' In a place that so perfectly, yet whimsically, mirrors the real world, there are bound to be things that peak the interest of anyone with even a passing curiosity in human nature. On...

After a year of research spanning four continents and interviews with dozens of people across the internet, Dancing Ink Productions will release their findings from the Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds project on Thursday, January 29....

Avatara is a 2003 ethnographic film (72 minutes) that takes place entirely in "Cyberia", specifically in the Digitalspace Traveler virtual world (previously) , which dates back to 1996. Interview with the filmmaker. Review of the film. via Also see: Archive.org's "Archiving Virtual Wo...