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I just had the chance to chat a bit with SL residents Dalian Hansen and Hunter Glass, the driving forces behind the SL Business Magazine I blogged about just now. It sounds like the pair have their hands full, but they also sound like capable hands.

Hunter, an American defense contractor based in Afghanistan, is acting as publisher for the venture, while Dalian, a creative director and photographer based in Manchuria, China, is the brains behind the scenes. The pair have hired Chloe Stanwell as director of ad sales, Faiyth Newell as Managing Editor and Charisma Toricellli as copy editor. While they declined to name early contributors, the first issue will weigh in at a whopping 30 pages or more, according to Dalian. Layout for the first issue is still being worked out. (more…)

While browsing the Second Life Podcast blog I found this link to the upcoming SL Business magazine, due to launch in-world and as a PDF on August 1. According to the mag’s media kit on SLExchange, it’s quite an ambitious undertaking. The media kit was posted by resident Dalian Hansen, but no staff is named in it, so I’m not yet clear on who’s behind the undertaking. Second Life could really use a good business publication, in my opinion, but it remains to be seen if this is it. (more…)