I really don’t have time or energy for my first life right now, but several different groups I’m part of are talking to me about Second Life, so I thought I should put up a quick post about what I’ve been up to there and what I’ve been finding.

Friends of mine who are videobloggers, non-profit technologists, and political activists have all been talking with me separately about Second Life. To me, these three groups have some interesting potential overlaps and I would love to see them connect a little better.

A videoblogger had recently posted on BlogHUD. BlogHud is a blogging system for Second Life. You can send a message from Second Life and it will show up on BlogHUDs page. They have nice feature to find who blogged what, and from where they blogged it.

For example, check out my recent posts from SecondLife as well as posts from Commonwealth Island.

Ideally, all of my friends should probably use this to publicize places and events in Second Life.

From there, I stumbled across Snapzilla. Snapzilla, aka SLPics can be found at http://www.sluniverse.com/pics. It is sort of like the Flickr of Second Life. It is even supposed to support cross posting to Flickr, but that hasn't worked for me yet. Bloghud includes pictures from Snapzilla, and you can associate them with your profile there.

As I was learning my way around Snapzilla, I also came across SLProfiles. If Snapzilla is the Flickr of Second Life, SLProfiles is the MySpace of SecondLife. I haven't really started putting up much of a profile there yet. Like MySpace, I’ve been contacted by people I don’t know very well asking me to add them as friends. Ideally, I would love to see all of my videoblogging, non-profit tech, political activist friends add me on SLProfiles. The we could do some really interesting Second Life based online social networks. My profile is at http://www.slprofiles.com/slprofiles.asp?id=5450.

SLProfiles also has a blogging tool, very similar to bloghud. I’ve posted one quick note there.

When I get more time, I’ll explore more and think about how we can really use some of this for positive change.