I am Avatar

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Machinima for the "Shaping Identity" Panel
Creating and Acting Identity: Practice-As-Research Symposium:
a one-day interdisciplinary symposium,
October 22, 2010, University of California, Davis.
Web site: http://tinyurl.com/366ohan
Machinima created by HVX Silverstar, Library Studios, 2010,
on the islands of the Community Virtual Library
in the very beautiful Second Life®.
With the beautiful live music of Cylindrian (Grace Buford)
and KelvinBlue Oh and artists on Revostock.com
"The War Part 1" © Cassidy James Bisher
"Benediction" © Lynne Publishing
Bernadette Daly Swanson © 2010.
Quotes taken from the exceptional book by Mark Stephen Meadows, "I, Avatar: the culture and consequences of having a Second Life. The best!
http://tinyurl.com/5r2hbf

Trying out other worlds after the Linden announcement to do away with the educational discount

I first tried inWorldz after the Linden announcement to increase educational fees from the current discounted set-up and monthly maintenance fees charged. After a quick chat with one of the mentors, I teleported directly to the island to find out how to purchase land... Islands are much cheaper, with a monthy lease of US$75.00 for an island. It's more than double that for an island in Second Life. Mainland regions are $60.00 while the beta is still in effect.
I was in the midst of a purchase... terribly compulsive! Fortunately, it timed out when I took too long to decide on the region name. I had the island name in mind, and hadn't thought of the region... Lucky for me! I have leased an island in OSgrid which takes me away from the proprietary environments of Second Life and inWorldz.