Over on bloghud a saw a post from the CDC island. Though the post mentioned nothing of the actual experience, I had visions of global pandemic simulations or real time disease outbreak visualization maps.

Unfortunately, the CDC's presence in Second Life is what I'm now referring to as "brochureland" - a combination of the terms brochure and island, similar to the term brochureware used to describe websites that are used as electronic marketing rather than having specific features or functionality. The experience was very similar to a booth at a trade show - many display signs and pictures, some of which linked to various sections of their website and other websites such as the Metaverse Messenger.