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Before it goes off the newsstands, you might want to get the July Scientific American. It’s cover story is. "Stem Cells: The Real Culprits in Cancer?" It’s a good overview of theorizing and research about the role that stem cells might play in originating and sustaining tumors. We know stem cells are the generators of cells that become various specialized ...

While doing a podcast interview for NetSquared with Linden Lab Community Manager Jeska Dzwigalski (aka in Second Life as Jeska Linden) I asked her about the Second Life Relay. Here’s the portion of the interview specifically about SL Relay and success factors for community building. MP3 File

I hear the Second Life Relay was a great success last weekend. I don’t want to upstage the information about the event that others will have later, but I do want to link to this piece of video from Tao that gives a sense of the SL sets that were created for the event. Tao also blogged during the event.

This week I attended the most far-out Net Tuesday yet. CompuMentor was really pushing the envelope of virtual reality technology by holding a "mixed reality" event. That means there were two venues: Many people were online at the TechSoup site in Second Life. Simultaneously, some of us were in the CompuMentor annex in San Francisco. Live, streaming video and audio ...