Here's my personal favorite posts for New World Notes last year, several by guest and contributing writers. Also see my Social Times post from July, "How to Save Second Life in Seven Easy Steps", including the suggestion, Hire a Game Industry VP With Design Background, which I'm happy to see has been fulfilled by the hiring of EA executive Rod Humble. Here's my ten 2010 NWN keepers, roughly in chronological order:
- IMVU Advertises With Avatar Like Avatar From Avatar on Article About Second Life Advertising With Avatar Like Avatar From Avatar - Oh I love recursiveness.
- Jesse Schell, Get Real: Accessibility, Not Reality, Is the Big Force Driving Games and Virtual Worlds Today - Commentary on a widely seen talk which has helped drive the "Gamification" craze.
- Machinima is the Only Real World Application of Second Life To Gain a Mass Market (& For Now, the Only One that Will) - With a special appearance by McLovin'!
- What Rebecca Learned By Being a Second Life Man - A gender role reversal leads to surprising insights.
Six more after the break!
- What Went Wrong With Linden Lab? The Dwight Schrute Echo Chamber - Written shortly after Linden's 30% layoffs and exit of most of its executives.
- Uncle Borgnine Builds a Battleship: 76 Year Old Navy Vet Recreates His Korean War Vessel in Second Life - Perfect example of why I still write about Second Life.
- Guest Post: Second Life's Strength Is Its Power to Transform Identity -- And the "Weirdos" Who Embrace It - While I don't entirely agree with this, it's powerfully written, and I'd love to run more guest posts of this caliber (hint hint.)
- Losing Night: The Woman Who Abandoned Her Avatar to Save Herself, Only to Have Her Avatar Save Her - Great guest writing from "Nightflower", who became an NWN columnist.
- The Second Life of Mad Men: Iris Ophelia's Full Collection of Avatars Inspired by the Show - See all of Iris Ophelia's amazing series at the link!
- Ophelia's Gaze: DC Online Has Infinite Options for Stylish Superheroes -- But Superheroines Always Get Superboobs - Republished on Jezebel and Kotaku to huge pageviews and a massive discussion thread!
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