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.

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I went to the Peer Learning at Oneworld last week and learned about how Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society are using Second Life to fundraise. What on earth is Second Life? Well, it's a little less "on earth" and a little more "in the tubes". Developed by Linden Lab, a downloadable client program enables its users, called "Residents", to interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse. Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items (virtual property) and services from one another. ( sez wikipedia)

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