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Sweden opens embassy in Second Life --sarah, Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:00:47 -0800 reply

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6310915.stm Wouldn't it be more interesting to have an idealized Sweden represented rather than the "real" one? What good is a second life if it exactly duplicates the first one?

more on second life --sarah, Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:33:48 -0800 reply

i'll turn this conversation over to my betters (i.e., those whose job it is to spend their lives thinking about social networking and virtual worlds). there's a 3-way discussion about second life occurring through the many 2 many website:

http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/01/29/second_life_games_and_virtual_worlds.php