Well so on today's installment of 10, the cat's out of the bag. I've been helping them build an island for watching 10, chilling out, community-ing in Second Life. It's been quite a bit of fun and like everything in SL, nothing is ever finished. The sim is only half-filled with some fun stuff thrown in for good measure. Go find the easter eggs I've left.

In other Second Life news, we're bringing another island online, connected to the Slackstreet island. On the new island (called Shalida), we're building the Hipcast.com Convention Center (hipcast = formerly audioblog.com), where we are planning virtual trade shows and conferences and concerts and such. We've also got some rockin' partners like our homies from The Electric Sheep Company to do some wild stuff in world. (Here's a little insight into what SL is without the 3D)

And also, the record label I bought, sorta? Once upon a time, someone created a record label in SL to manage the promotions, performances, and sales of music of artists who do SL-oriented music stuff. Yep, you read that correctly. Since I'm the new owner, I'm picking up the reigns to not only continue to help some very talented musicians do their thing in SL, but also, to make money from their art. There's been increasing interest from real world musicians who want to come in, do a show, do a thing, a la Gorillaz-style. Also, I'll be working to introduce podcasting and Creative Commons (I am an officer of the Podcasting organization in SL and also the Free Culture group (Free Culture is driving the introduction of Creative Commons in world, for virtual objects and the like).

I'll talk more about this on an upcoming podcast which you can get at show.ericrice.com or on Tower Records' new podcasting site Tower Pod (now with more rights-cleared Public Enemy! w00t)

In the mean time, head on over to the on10.net island, located here and stop by Slackstreet and chill with Scoble Seattle and a cast of millions (okay, like 12 people) on the Slackstreet sim.

Tell 'em Spin Martin sent ya. ;-)