2 posts tagged “vonnegut”
I am very saddened by the loss of Kurt Vonnegut, who died this week aged 84. He was the greatest of our counterculture novelists who constantly challenged life with questions of existence and moral vision, always using his dark wit and humour to convey his message. Check out the article in The New York Times. Books like Timequake really changed my view of the world. RIP Kurt and thanks for sharing your remarkable outlook on life. I also recently posted an interview with Kurt Vonnegut from Second Life.
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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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