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Gallery Beleze 1st Annual Dragon Photo Competition: 2nd Place award goes to artist Molly Montale for her cleverly composed “Dragon Chow” entry. Congrats Molly! Curator: Wealthy Mizserposted by Fleep Tuque on Tir na Lir using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

Gallery Beleza 1st Annual Dragon Photo Contest: In third place, “Dragon Rider (3)” by Orpheus Kurosawa, an impressive silhouette with fiery skies and a truly gorgeously constructed dragon. Curator: Wealthy Mizserposted by Fleep Tuque on Tir na Lir using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

Gallery Beleza 1st Annual Dragon Photo Competition: Honorable Mention goes to artist Liz Galeach for her cleverly done entry “Through the Looking Glass”. This piece plays with another favorite haunt of SL residents, showing a miniature dragon facing off against the giant kitty over a tasty Greenies treat. [...]

Just arrived at the awards ceremony for the Dragon Photo contest sponsored by the Gallery Beleza. I served as a judge in the contest, so I’m dying to know the results! Gallery owner Weatlhy Mizser (above) will be announcing the top three prize winners, as well as the People’s Choice [...]

If you’re looking for a live music performance of the experimental, fabulous, and ethereal jamming variety, there’s no better place to be than Komuso’s Joint in Artropolis. Musicians MoShang Zhao and Komuso Tokugawa stream live musical improv and collaborative compositions through a mist of atmospheric visual effects. The star [...]

Work is being done to increase the “sense of presence” through better gestures, avatar animations, and interfaces. “If you do the math, the cost savings to do meetings virtually at a distance instead of putting people on planes is enormous,” says Kapor. “Carbon offsets are one of these intermediate [...]

Linden Lab Chairman Mitch Kapor acknowledges that Second Life is still difficult to use, but says Second Life will be as big as the internet and will merge with the internet, but only if it is open like the internet. Will Linden Lab and Second Life make it to that point? [...]

Robert talking about the recent flap with Facebook, in which his account was flagged and disappeared temporarily due to a script he ran to “scrape” his Facebook friend contact data to import into another service. Robert points out that the script he ran was functionally the same script that _Facebook_ [...]

In the Reuters Auditorium in Second Life, waiting for the interview to begin with famed tech evangelist Robert Scoble from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Better known as The Scobleizer, his blog at http://scobleizer.com is followed religiously by techheads and geeks.posted by Fleep Tuque on Reuters using a blogHUD [...]

Live on Reuters island in Second Life, Adam Reuters interviews SL CEO Philip Rosedale, currently discussing entrepreneurship. Philip disagrees that there is a PR strategy problem, and says that transparency is the way to go, but pre-discussion of policies may be more damaging than just announcing policy changes when they [...]