Ten Favorite 2009 NWN Posts on Content Creation, Controversy, Community

Ten of my favorite 2009 New World Notes posts on the content, controversies, and communities which make Second Life real:

• Disputed Territory: War in Gaza Provokes Protest (And Conversation) In Second Life Israel
• Has Bloodlines Become Second Life's Next Tringo? 69,000 Players, Mid Six Figure US$ Revenue Suggests So
• Chicken Run: Second Life Home To Estimated 100K+ Artificial Life Chickens That Breed, Hatch, Learn, Die
• Aimee Logs Into Second Life... From Within Second Life!
• SL Blogger Challenge: Show Me the Economic Effects of Virtual Content Theft
• Mr. Whybrow Builds AT-AT Walker That Walks With Physics
• Breast Enhancement: Open Source SL Viewer Adds Avatar Breast Physics, Attracting Controversy, 50K Downloads
• Ophelia's Gaze: Bruised Avatar Skins -- Stylish, Or Sexist?
• Wandering Hal: Autonomous AI Bot Randomly Explores Second Life, Offers Surreal Conversation
• Ophelia's Gaze: 5 Signs of Low-Quality Second Life Fashion

Comments

[Adric Antfarm]

Seriously?

This is controversy?

No Zindra, no avatar zapping age verfication test area, no chalking, no don't tase me crack den, no kid avatars dancing, no anything that suggests you exist in the non-scrubbed down with bleach non-M. Linden approved grid the rest of us do?

[Hamlet Au]

Most of those were noted in a post about major Linden/business/news headlines earlier this week, dude.

[Adric Antfarm]

I guess we have to agree to disagree on the definition of "most", bra.