These recent postings all reflect a less than rosy current picture of SL……

Andy Powell Loses Faith

Fuzzy Buzz on why Linden Lab needs to read Snow Crash again

Zonja Capalini on Openspace

The early summer 2009 Virtual World Watch snapshot of virtual world activity in UK HE and FE (sponsored by Eduserv) is now available to view……..

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Virtual World Watch

If you want to add in a row to a table - if you are using dreamweaver go to the top row of the table and then select Insert (top option) - Table Objects(side option) - Insert Row above (option) and this will give you a blank row to fill in

A way of helping the mentally impaired to give informed medical consent in Second Life (a part of Imperial College’s virtual postgraduate medical school in SciLands)….

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Source : SLHealth List

Habitat has provided a perfect case study in how not to use social media with its clumsy attempts to insert popular internet keywords into its promotional Twitter posts writes Joanna Perry….

Retail Week Story

This calls to mind the Cillit Bang blog controversy from 2005.

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Habitat says misuse of Twitter keywords was a mistake

Cillit Bang clanger

This report presents the results of the second wave of a three-wave tracking study commissioned by the Department of Health with Ipsos MORI. The aims of the research programme are to exploring attitudes towards ‘self-care’ and, more specifically:

- explore the general public’s perceptions and behaviour with regard to both their own health and the NHS generally; and

- capture the attitudes and behaviour of those people with a long term health condition with regard to the self treatment of their condition and their use of healthcare services.

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Channel 4 is embarking on a groundbreaking project with Digital Goldfish, the Dundee-based developer. “You Booze You Lose” will be an iPhone/iTouch game that enables players to track their weekly, monthly and yearly alcohol consumption. The game will then display the effects of your habits, such as weight gain, liver disease and the financial and emotional impact…..

38minutes has more

4ip - a new initiative to encourage innovation on digital platforms and reinvent public service media for the digital age.

One of the most irritating features of Excel is that when you press Enter, it does not add a line break within a cell. Instead, it places the cursor in the cell below. This can become very annoying as you try to enter in data !!! If you want to add a line break within a cell, use Alt + Enter, instead of just Enter.

For researchers who have a bibliography that they created in a Word document, which they would now like to convert into an EndNote library the University of Queensland provides this handy guide - I tried it this morning and it works a treat ……

….but unfortunately you still need to manually edit each reference

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Edward Albro of PC World.com thinks - I Am Not Smart Enough for Wolfram Alpha - and adds:

“After playing with the very early version of Wolfram Alpha for a few hours, I agree that it’s not your average search engine. What is it? I’m not sure I’m qualified to say: Not only did I not understand all the answers I got from Wolfram Alpha, I couldn’t even comprehend some of the questions I could ask it”

Only 5 days until launch and then we all get to play !