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On his own blog, Chris Anderson has a fascinating response to this and this post: "Why I gave up on Second Life"; Chris e-mailed me a couple questions, which I reply to there. Between that and the post's extended reader commentary, it makes more a fascinating conversation-- read it all.
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PC/Mac readers recommend for SL:
Classic New World Notes stories:
All About My Avatar: The story behind amazing strange avatars (2007)
Fighting the Front: When fascists open an HQ in Second Life, chaos and exploding pigs ensue (2007)
Copying a Controversy: Copyright concerns come to the Metaverse via... the CopyBot! (2006)
The Penguin & the Zookeeper: Just another unlikely friendship formed in The Metaverse (2006)
Guarding Darfur: Virtual super heroes rally to protect a real world activist site (2006)
The Skin You're In: How virtual world avatar options expose real world racism (2006)
Making Love: When virtual sex gets real (2005)
Watching the Detectives: How to honeytrap a cheater in the Metaverse (2005)
Man on Man and Woman on Woman: Just another gender-bending avatar love story, with a twist (2005)
War of the Jessie Wall: Battle over virtual borders -- and real war in Iraq (2003)
Home for the Homeless: Creating a virtual mansion despite the most challenging circumstances (2003)
Fantastic, I love this kind of debate.
Although ultimately there is likely no right or wrong answer here.... just that one camp could stop trying to pull it down (and accept that this is a unique convergence of technologies trying to find its footing), and the other could acknowledge some of the flaws and their criticisms (present for exactly the same reason).
People will either like or not, depending upon what they look for. Personally speaking, once (if) Linden Lab iron out all the issues, and the interface is given that redesign - given that commercial touch; once the last of the vices have been outed and it's all squeaky clean / risk free; at that moment when 'popularity' strikes, I'm outta there....
Posted by: Robbie D | Sunday, August 05, 2007 at 06:05 PM