Lacking a second life
My cousin, John Norris, who is both an excellent ceramics sculptor and student of biomedical informatics, sent me an email asking if I knew anything about Second Life and the new Healthinfo Island Consumer Health Information Library. I didn’t so I checked it out.
The Alliance Library System received a $40,000 grant last Nov to “provide consumer health information services in the virtual world of Second Life.” To quote from their announcement:
“This will allow us to provide important information in a virtual world whose citizens may not come or may not be able to reach a traditional library. For instance there is a group for stroke victims. In real life they may be physically limited. In Second Life, they can fly and be whomever or whatever they choose to be. There are no limits.”
Since I’m interested in online medical treatment and services, I thought I should check it out. So I made a Second Life account and signed on.
