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Berkman Island featured in PopSci’s “Rough Guide to Second Life”

Berkman Island, which will host the CyberOne course, was featured in the September issue of Popular Science (no article yet on their site). The article describes another educational effort already underway — Wells Fargo’s branded island to teach financial responsibility (though a quick Google search shows that they subsequently abandoned the effort — the new one is done in Active Worlds) — and hints at interest from Wal-Mart, American Express, and Wal-Mart. The magazine writes of the island:

Berkman Sandbox: Owned by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, this area re-creates the landscape around Harvard University.

There’s a nice screenshot of Rodica/Ansible’s excellent handiwork in the lower-right corner of the page.

(Interesting research possibility: What are the property interests that arose from Wells Fargo’s commissioning of SL residents to prototype Wagon Island? See this wiki history of the affair).

Update: here’s the web version.

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