The waiting is over!
That diligent watcher of all things Oz, our friend Lowell Cremorne at SLOZ reports that Project Outback, the highly hyped and tremendously touted virtual world competitor has bit the big one, gone belly up, and is no more.
Check out Cremorne's post on the incident, and hang your heads for a moment for the passing of another startup project. The majority of MMO's/virtual worlds that have been started in the last ten years have never made it as far as an alpha, let alone a beta. At any one time there are generally forty or fifty in development. Of those, perhaps three will make it to launch. All that work and all those dreams are lost.
We might have problems of our own, but at least Second Life is here.
The Australia Council for the Arts (lovingly called OzCo), the main arts funding and advisory body for Ozlanders, is offering a $20,000AUD (about $16400USD) artistic residency in Second Life.
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 
The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has expressed an interest in creating a virtual space within SL. But do they have an understanding of what Second Lifers need, or of what they will be receptive to? 
