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Robert J. Sawyer in Extropia!

We've had a lot of wonderful guests in Extropia, but next Sunday we're going to have a very special visitor! Robert J. Sawyer (SF Writer in SL) will be joining us for a discussion of his novels and his visions of the future, in life extension, robotics, artificial intelligence, SETI, inter-species ethics and many more fascinating topics. And, he'll be sticking around afterwards to join the Extropia Book Club in a discussion of his latest novel, Rollback, just named as a finalist for the Hugo Aw… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Religion, Spirituality and the Avatar

Join us in the Central Nexus in Extropia Core, Second Life, on Saturday, March 15, 1-3pm SLT for Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon! Robert M. Geraci is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College in New York City. He studies the interactions of religion, science and technology w… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Art, Machinima and Immersion in SL

Scripter, builder, art and fashion model, photographer, gonzo journalist, fashion designer, club owner, hardcore Flickerite, artist, writer, party animal and insatiable lover CodeBastard Redgrave will be our Salon Spotlight Guest this Saturday, May 1, 1-3pm at The Nexus in Extropia Core (Extropia Core 127, 68, 24) Codie will screen new machinima, and discuss creativity and identity in SL, present recent artworks, and introduce her gallery show running all weekend in Extropia Core. Come rock th… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Artesia and User Communities

Please join us in The Nexus in Extropia Core this Saturday, February 23, from 1-3pm SLT for a special Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon. Guest Host Grace McDunnough will welcome Salon Spotlight Guests iAlja and IYan Writer of the consultancy Artesia for a discussion of user communities in synthetic worlds. Yan Writer and iAlja Writer are co-founders of Artesia, IYan is the CEO and iAlja is Community Architect. Artesia is a start-up company, focusing on user communities. Located in Ljubljana, the cap… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: OpenSim

Spotlight Guest Dalien Talbot, author of the Daltonic Gin blog (http://daltonic.blogspot.com/) will discuss OpenSim, technology innovation in SL and tech blogging.

Join guest host Argent Bury in The Nexus in Extropia Core (Extropia Core 127, 68,24) on Saturday, February 16 from 1-3pm SLT for an examination of OpenSim and its implications!

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Wired on Griefing

Please join us Saturday, February 9 from 1-3pm SLT for Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon.

Spotlight Guests Lordfly Digeridoo and Hiro Pendragon will discuss Julian Dibbell's recent article in Wired Magainze, "… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Wings, Games & Shores

Join us Saturday, February 2 from 1-3pm SLT at The Nexus in Extropia Core for Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon! Our Spotlight Guests will be Jen and Seven Shikami, for a romp through creativity and community!

Jen and Seven run Flotsam Beach, a mellow residential community, along with Seven's Selections, purveyors of some of SL's finest wings and arcade games. These two are a *lot* of fun, so get read… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Dizzy Banjo

Please join us next Saturday, January 26, from 1-3pm SLT at The Nexus in Extropia Core for Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon! Our Salon Spotlight Guest will be Dizzy Banjo, discussing his work on groundbreaking metaverse multimedia installations, including DynaFleur and the newly-debuted… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Chatbots!

Please join us at The Nexus In Extropia Core this Saturday, January 19, 1-3pm SLT, for Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon!

Our Spotlight Guest this week will be Corro Moseley, CEO of Daden Limited. Corro will be discussing (and demonstrating!) unique chatbots, A-Life and other innovative technologies (including the Twitter Fountain) for SL and the 2d web.

DADENLIMITED is a virtual wor… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Community Development & Higher Education in SL

Salon Spotlight Guest Fleep Tuque will join us for a discussion on creating and sustaining vibrant communities in SL, and on how synthetic worlds are transforming higher education.

Fleep is a pioneer in community development, based in the Chibo Community, and co-chair of the 2007 SL Best Practices in Education Conference, and was Stage Manager for the 2007 SL Relay for Life.

1-3pm SLT, Saturday January 12, The Nexus at Extropia Core (Extropia Core 127, 68, 24) Second Life Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: SL'ang Life Magazine

Spotlight Guests Uzi Boa and Cezary Fish will discuss the upcoming launch of their SL-focused print magazine SL'ang Life, community formation and media across worlds.

Saturday, January 5, 1-3pm SLT at The Nexus in Extropia Core, Second Life Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Philips Design Probe - SKIN:Tattoo

This Saturday from 1-3 pm SLT at The Nexus in Extropia Core, Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon will do something different: we're going to host a Philips Design Probe to discuss SKIN:Tattoo, a revolutionary new concept in body art.

Yel Oh of the Philips Design team… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Creativity and Corporate Builds

Please join us this Saturday, December 8, from 1 to 3 PM SLT at The Nexus In Extropia Core as we discuss what makes an effective corporate build, and how to liberate our design imaginations!

Our Spotlight Guest will be Aleister Kronos, of the popular and insightful blog, Ambling In Second Life! Al is a veteran traveler, wildly creative designer… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: The Future of SL Music

Please join us this Saturday, December 1 from 1-3pm SLT at The Nexus in Extropia Core for a *very* special Salon! Spotlight Guest Grace McDunnough will lead a discussion of music and multimedia, then perform a live concert of her own alternative/soul/blues hits!

Grace is the creator of Musimmersion, an SL scripting system allowing performers t… Continue

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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: SL Africa

Join us this Saturday, November 24 from 1 to 3 pm SLT in the Nexus at Extropia Core for Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: SL Africa!

Our spotlight guest will be Alanagh Recreant, founder of SL Africa, to discuss drawing Africans into synthetic worlds, synthetic world outreach and charity to African communities, and African culture in SL!

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Added by Sophrosyne Stenvaag on November 19, 2007 at 8:44pm — No Comments

Saturday Salon: Banking in SL

The Second Life banking industry has been rocked with scandals - is it safe? How do banks and stock exchanges work in synthetic worlds? Can we have an honest banking system without outside regulation?

Join us Saturday, November 10 from 1 to 3:30 PM SLT at the Diversionarium along with Spotlight Guest Nobody Fugazi (Taran Rampersad) of Your2ndPlace.com, journalist and commentator on the SL financial industry for a primer on virtual finance and an investigation of the state of SL bankin… Continue

Added by Sophrosyne Stenvaag on November 10, 2007 at 4:36am — 1 Comment

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