Here you can get to Second Life and check the system requirements as you will need a bit of graphics grunt and a broadband internet connection with Quicktime Player installed to get the most out of the ABC Island in Second Life then register and download the 30Mb app. and checkout the ABC Second Life Help/Faq and then go directly to ABC Island once everything is installed.

I captured the screenshots as  I went from one normal life to a Second Life. I will post a follow up later and at some stage more Second Life adventures as it is quite remarkable what is inside this virtual world and what you can do inside. One last thing is if you thought MySpace was a scary place to be, there is a reason why Second Life is limited to people over the age of 18.

Also worthy of noting is that the ABC Island only went live at Midnight except for some testing over the weekend which must boost the spirits of Our ABC's 'New Media Unit'.

It is starting to get quite crowded in here now and it is only 7:45pm

(All times are based on US PDT until I can work that bit out)

[1:41] ABC CINEMA SCREEN: New media URL set.
[1:41] ABC CINEMA SCREEN: New media URL set.
[1:48] Lolah Ivanova shouts: I'm going to introduce Ms. Abi Goldflake, Abc island owner. She's going to tell you all about tonights event!
[1:49] Abi Goldflake shouts: Hi everyone, welcome to our island. Great to see you all here. I’m just going to explain how tonight’s events will unfold….
[1:49] Abi Goldflake: The 4 Corners program will start at 8.30pm. Press play on the movies button at the bottom of your screen to watch the program…
[1:49] Abi Goldflake: can everyone hear me?
[1:49] Pangur Cattaneo: yes
[1:49] skribe Forti: Yes
[1:49] Esmeralda Vernon: yes abi
[1:49] Abi Goldflake: cool. Please feel free to chat during the program or IM people directly if you want to talk personally. If the chat is annoying you, you can mute people by right clicking on them and selecting mute…
[1:50] Abi Goldflake: If you have any questions about ABC Island or about the program for the discussion forum, please IM me (IM rather than chat please) during or straight after the program…
[1:50] Abi Goldflake: 10 minutes or so after the program has finished, we’ll start the Q&A session with the 4 Corners presenter, Ticky Fullerton. I will ask her the questions I’ve received via IM and she will answer
[1:50] Abi Goldflake: I’m going to run this via the ABC Friends group IM so that others who can’t fit into the island can also follow the discussion. Anyone here who is not a member of ABC Friends will need to join now (go to Search Groups – search ABC then click Join)…
[1:50] Abi Goldflake: If you have follow-up questions during the Q&A, please IM me directly at Abi Goldflake and I will try to include them. I think this will be the simplest way to manage all the questions rather than having an open chat session which could get too cluttered…
[1:51] Abi Goldflake: It’d be good to keep ABC Friends IM clear for the questions and answers themselves…
[1:51] Abi Goldflake: Please also remember that this is the ABC Island and this is a moderated event so we expect appropriate language and behaviour. If we feel that anyone is acting inappropriately, we will warn them, remove them and ultimately ban them from the island…
[1:51] Abi Goldflake: This is the first time we’ve tried this – and also the very first day our island is open so please bear with us if there are a few technical hitches (fingers crossed!). OK, lecture over! I’ll let you know when the show is starting shortly.

Quite a diverse bunch of characters here or I should say avatars.