2 posts tagged “second life”
Vandals, or "griefers" as they are known in world, last week hacked into the ABC Island on Second Life, and reduced it to rubble. Quickly after the event, Linden Labs executed a "rollback," which has restored most of what was there before the attack. These types of attacks are not uncommon in Second Life and virtual "atom bombs" have also been used by the self-proclaimed Second Life Liberation Army against in-world stores owned by Reebok and American Apparel. The group claims it is campaigning for more democracy in the virtual world. No escape from the "reality" of dissisdents, even in the virtual world.
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ABC's Four Corners had a fantastic in-depth report on Second Life last night. Reporter Ticky Fullerton took on the guise of a very pretty avater (I might add!) and explored the virtual world from all its angles including interviews with a bunch of key players both offline and also in world. You can see the program online, plus check out extended interviews, transcripts, articles and interactive features. Interviews included Second Life’s creator Philip Rosedale, virtual worlds economic guru Ted Castranova, critic Clay Shirky, virtual fashionista Veronica Brown, porn king Stroker Serpentine, "Play Money" author, Julian Dibbell, and virtual stock exchange pioneer, Australia’s own Luke Connell.
The report was also simulcast on the new ABC Island within Second Life, and afterwards, Ticky Fullerton answered questions from an audience in world.
While I'm on a Second Life rant, I stumbled across something cool at Mefeedia. An interview with brilliant novelist Kurt Vonnegut by host John Hockenberry, live from Second Life. The interview was for the "Through the Looking Glass" series, from the US national public radio program, The Infinite Mind.
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