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The latest Inside Linden Lab podcast is out from Linden Lab (although this one is called Inside The Lab instead of the usual name -- perhaps an oversight). Unfortunately, the audio quality of this podcast is quite poor and it is difficult to listen to, and some of the speech feels as if it might have been cut a bit tightly together.

This time around, the topic is education. If you're at all involved in education in Second Life there's not really anything that you won't have heard before, though there's some meat here if you're interested but haven't done your research. The participants this time around are Pathfinder Linden and Claudia Linden. Katt Linden sounds a little over-scripted, but this is her first time around - Catherine sounded a little awkward too on her first cast.

The MP3 is 17.43MB and is hosted on Amazon's S3 service. Get it here.

Starting today, a number of prominent Second Life bloggers are on strike for three full days in protest at Linden Lab's sudden detrimental change of position on the use of current and new trademarks.

These bloggers feel snubbed and threatened by the new brand guidelines, which they find contradictory, excessive and potentially restrictive to free speech, and are going on a symbolic three-day strike as a gesture to show that they do not find Linden Lab's answers to these concerns sufficient.

In a search lasting nearly 12 months, Linden Lab has finally hired a Communications Manager. Linden Lab originally announced the search for a Second Life Resident Communications Manager in early May 2007, but the blog posting announcing the position was silently removed some months later.

You would hardly know the position had been filled, if you weren't reading closely.

No, that's not a typo. It's Sciamachy Moran's rather clever play on words to describe how he feels about Linden Lab's new brand center and the new inSL trademark program. We've spent the last couple days catching up with Second Life users in-world, and checking out what they have to say on their blogs and assorted forums.

There are people saying positive things about the change. We counted only eleven positive comments among the mass of material.

Catherine Linden (Catherine Smith) has published a second episode of the new Linden Lab podcast series, Inside Linden Lab.

This month's episode features Joe Miller, Linden Lab's VP of platform and technology development.

Catherine Linden (Catherine Smith) is doing a new Linden Lab podcast called Inside Linden Lab. The first episode features Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab.

During the course of the 'cast, Rosedale does specifically contradict Gene Yoon by consistently referring to the economy, where Yoon has previously insisted no such economy in Second Life exists.