Nature are streaming the Science Online London conference live in Second Life, organised jointly with Mendeley and the Royal Institution.
Nothing unusual about that of course. What's interesting is that they are charging £10 (that's about (US)$16 or L$4100) to attend for the day.
Attendance will cost the princely sum of 10 GBP/15 USD to cover costs and will give virtual attendees access to the island for the whole day as well as an opportunity to ask the speakers questions – we will have a member of staff in the audience to get your questions to the speaker just like the RL attendees.
I'm sure this isn't a first but it'll be interesting to see how it works out in terms of uptake. The cost itself doesn't look to be too unreasonable.
The RL event is happening in London (UK) on August 22nd 2009. UK time will probably make this a tricky event to attend for some people.
