A Paperback Travel Guide to Second Life

In yet another instance of Second Life repeating the history of the Internet in miniature form, I just got a small paperback in the mail, and it's a colorful and fun companion to the Official Guide and other Second Life manuals coming out recently in droves:  The Second Life Travel Guide by Sean Voss (RL author info here) is bursting full of a 100+ recommended locations in many categories, quite a few I hadn't heard of until reading it, described with annotated screenshots like they were real travel destinations.  I say "repeating history", because it's bound to remind you of those paperback Internet location directories that came out in the late 90s, back before Google.  (Sean acknowledges as much in the introduction, noting "[W]e are still waiting for that great source of Second Life destinations.")  This book it's a good start, though of course, hundreds of other sites remain to be listed and documented.  The book's web-based reference site, by the way is right here.

Comments

[sean percival]

Hamlet,

Thanks for the great write up, really enjoyed it. Could not agree more in relation to SL echoing a lot of the trends of the first dotcom rush. I remember those internet "phone books"! In retrospect what a strange idea, I guess it just shows how much room there is for growth.

Look for future books/web services to cover the 1000s of remaining locations. :)

Sean