This is the 16th in a series of largely demographic interviews that are conducted with established residents, to find out more about them and their involvement with Second Life, and to contrast the differences between their views and experiences and those of the newer residents. The questions may be tailored slightly for each interview; responses may be edited for purposes of clarity.

I bumped into Olmia while I was doing some photography at the ABC Island sandbox tower. She was fun to talk to, and I was able to talk her into telling us a bit more about herself.

ABC Island manager, Abi Goldflake has endeavored to set the record straight about the problem with ABC Island last month. It was, as we reported a server problem, and not vandalism (as was widely reported through the media).

Granted, we initially went with griefed, because that's what the mainstream media said, but it only took a short investigation to get to the bottom of things, and we acknowledged it for what it was: a server issue. Nobody else picked up on that though. Vandalism is ever so much more juicy, isn't it?

What do sim Albion, ABC Island and Camp Kawabata have in common? They all lost approximately half (or at least that is the term people are using) of their content suddenly in the last several days.

Mars Japanese Gardens in Albion, as they look today.

In Albion, most of the builds are missing, and some are just remnants. Some walls and furniture standing with other structures absent. The content vanished on or about the 19th, and is not replaceable. It features the famous Mars Japanese Gardens which we featured previously.

Australian residents and Second Life residents who are fans of Australia have displayed a huge vote of confidence for the move by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not American) to establish a presence in Second Life. Ideas have flooded in through various means: the SLOz forum posting, the ABC friends group and directly through Abi Goldflake, the ABC's representative in Second Life. The ABC Friends group itself - created only a week or so ago for the purpose of collecting together interested Residents - now has 60 members.

Since the ABC's own team had done a substantial amount of brainstorming before the fact and with ideas from residents coming in so fast, building on ABC Island was able to commence on Sunday, 28th January. At this point, an art director has been brought on board to draw the project together. It is estimated at this point that the project will be complete within a couple of months.