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February 27, 2008
Life 2.0 - As Green as Five Brazilian Households
A little more than a year ago, Nicholas Carr, author of "Does IT Matter?" and other influential books produced a back-of-the-envelope analysis of the environmental impact of Second Life. The relevant blog entry can be found here. His math shows that the average resident of Second Life consumes about as much energy, annually as the average citizen of Brazil. Subsequent math, by Sun's Dave Douglas, quoted on Carr's blog, converts this to the equivalent of about 1.17 tons of carbon, per avatar, per year.
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Posted by John Jainschigg at 05:47 PM Permalink
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February 20, 2008
Director's Cut: Schizoid is A-OK
As soon as an event stabilizes, it reduces to formula – driven by the pressure to differentiate, by marketing's desire to drum out one simple message, and by the human herd instinct. But a fast-growing show like Life 2.0 can get away with being what I like to call "productively schizoid."
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February 08, 2008
Registration Open for Life 2.0 Spring
Life 2.0 Spring registration officially opened today. Naturally, about 24 hours in advance of my actually being ready to open registration. But ... welcome! We're doubling the size of prior events -- working on four sims plus scale-free realtime video to the web. Over 100 presenters in six tracks — covering technology, tools and best-practice for metaverse application and business development. We'll dive deep to explore opportunities offered by 18 emerging virtual world platforms. So you should register right now and then come back daily for the fast-emerging story. You'll be happy, I promise.
Posted by John Jainschigg at 01:38 PM Permalink
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