And in another interesting note, Italian IBM workers are organizing a virtual picket in Second Life. At first, this seemed kind of pointless to me, but IBM has a substantial presence in SL, which is not surprisingly a great promotional venue/channel/medium for a company like IBM. There have, of course, been online actions before, and even a kind of online picketing and leafletting (Ken Hamidi and FACE-Intel springs to mind). But in virtual worlds narrowly speaking, this looks to be kind of a first. I plan to be there. ps: Yes, I am also still planning to follow up that Putnam post. It's amazing how time gets away from you.