Blogging for Life in Second Life

[cerebralsilicate]

This Saturday, July 25th, from 6am PDT/SLT, I - Athanasius Skytower - am spending 24 continuous hours in Second Life to raise money to support the American Cancer Society in their efforts to eliminate the scourge of cancer.The money is being raised by participating in this year's Blogathon (http://www.blogathon.org/ ), in which individual bloggers are sponsored to update their blogs every half hour for 24 hours straight. I'm therefore putting my interest in virtual worlds to use in the cause by spending 24 hours in Second Life, starting by blogging a brief introduction to it, and then going on to showcase some of the more interesting, beautiful or useful places I know here and there on the grid. The Blogathon runs from 6 am PDT/SLT on Saturday through to the same time the next day.

Pledges of support are accepted through the Blogathon site at:

http://www.blogathon.org/pledge.php?blogid=158

And within Second Life, donations to the American Cancer Society are also accepted via a donation box set up for this cause at:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Strata/243/100/51

In addition, the proceeds from all sales of the PingHud (a Second Life HUD designed to enable easy posting to microblogging sites and social networks, via Ping.fm, from inside Second Life) during the month of July will be donated to the American Cancer Society.

Residents of Second Life (which I'm guessing y'all are) may also join the group "Athanasius's Blogathon" ( secondlife:///app/group/0e7f4967-9985-ea4e-532c-e38d5bce7397/about ) for more information about the event, and to help cheer me on - and keep me awake - as the hours of the night pass!

More information about Athanasius's Blogathon can be found on my blog, at:

http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/cerebrate/blogathon/

where the event itself will take place.

Thanks for listening and in advance for any contributions. I hope to run into some of you on the day!