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Hamlet Linden
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07-12-2005 16:04
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Hamlet Linden
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07-12-2005 16:05
LONDON CALLING
The international community of Second Life responds to the terror attacks on London... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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07-12-2005 16:06
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Hamlet Linden
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07-19-2005 16:33
THE HIGH COST OF PROFIT
I'd been wondering why the massively talented scripter hadn't gone pro yet, contracting out to Residents who'd pay top Linden Dollar for someone with his skills. I just wasn't expecting the answer to involve the unemployment crisis in Europe and how the EU's social programs are currently architected... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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07-20-2005 23:59
MR. FROGG'S WILD RIDE
From homelessness survivor to virtual entertainer, a hard luck musician with a story to tell streams for his supper... It was during his two months living on the street that Frogg Marlowe had an insight about the shape of the homeless experience. “I saw the cycle of it,” he tells me. “Can't get a job without a home. Can't get a home without a job.” “Pariah Cycle” is the plaintive, blues and folk-inflected song he wrote from his short time without a place to call home, and the feeling he’d get from passersby who skirted past him, eyes averted. Last Friday, however, he had the attention of a capacity crowd at the Lilly Pad, an underground nightclub in Clyde, where he performed that number and other originals, sometimes accompanying himself on guitar, sometimes on a harmonica... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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07-22-2005 20:46
BUILDING A BETTER DOCTOROW
When I finally met lilith Pendragon, the creator of Cory Doctorow's avatar for his latest in-world appearance, she was putting the final touches on a tribute to Snoop Dogg that she'd just sold to a Resident named, appropriately enough, Chronic Brotherhood. Mr. Brotherhood appears to be a happy client. "I keep a blue flag hangin' out my backside but only on the left side," Chronic announces to us in his new Snoop Dogg persona. "Yeah, that's the Crip side. Ain't no other way to play the game the way I play. I cut so much you thought I was a DJ. "Two, one, yeah, three," he offers in closing. "Es-en-double-oh-pee Dee-oh-double-gee." Therefore, in other words, fo shizzle... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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07-25-2005 20:12
DAY OF THE DOCTOROW, PART I
Hamlet Linden: Among the top tier 'thought leaders' of the Internet age, Cory Doctorow is an award-winning writer, a passionate digital rights advocate, and the co-editor of the mammothly popular Boing Boing blog. His latest novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, is a deeply moving tale of magic, love, family, and Internet connectivity. Ladies and gentlemen, furries, faeries, space warriors, and other Second Life species of indeterminate gender and classification, I'm proud to present: Cory Doctorow's avatar! [Uproarious applause] For those few here (and I hope it's just a few) who haven't read Someone Comes to Town yet, why not give us your brief cocktail party pitch for the story? Cory Doctorow: Hmm-- it's not an easy book to summarize... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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07-26-2005 10:32
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Hamlet Linden
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08-02-2005 02:08
SANDBOX GAME
For a short time, giving a second life to the games they love-- tributes to Counterstrike, Mario, and Warhammer come to SL in skewed form... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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08-03-2005 20:38
NOT SWEATING THE DETAILS
When she first came to Second Life, her story seemed so strange, and so unbelievable (and unsettling to some), I was reluctant to even reveal her SL name. She said she had come here on orders from her boss, the head of a Chinese Internet gaming company, for the sole purpose of acquiring Linden Dollars to convert into US currency-- a worker for a fabled virtual sweatshot. Inspired by the Hong Kong fantasy classic A Chinese Ghost Story, I chose "Hsiao-Tsing" as her pseudonym, named after the film's beautiful temptress spirit, who reluctantly serves a tree demon that drains the souls of its victims with a giant tongue. In a later update, the story of "Hsiao-Tsing" seemed a touch less stranger-- another milestone of the next global economic revolution. But that was four months ago, and so much has changed since then... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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08-08-2005 16:20
THE IDEAL TRAILER
... I've been following the SL machinima of Pierce Portocarrero for some time now. He began creating it not primarily as a gamer or a fan of the world, but as a seasoned filmmaker who saw it first and foremost as a new medium to hone his talents in. Since then, he's been using SL machinima to create a documentary. To be exact, a documentary set within Second Life; to be even more precise, a documentary featuring beloved fashion designer and in-world entrepeneur Nephilaine Protagonist, incorporating real life video interviews with the striking person behind the avatar. The expanded trailer for the upcoming film, "The Ideal World", is now available in Quicktime here. Since I have enough background in film to write about it pretentiously, I have to point out a few extraordinarily cool elements going on in there... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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08-11-2005 11:00
RICHARD BARTLE: THE STEEL CAGE DEATH MATCH COLLOQUIM!
Way back in the day, Richard Bartle built one of the world's first multi-user dungeons, and a lot more recently, authored a canonical guide to creating virtual worlds, and for some three decades of consistent kickass in the field, earned himself a coveted pioneer game developer's award. He's not all that convinced, however, that Second Life represents a qualitative leap in the medium he did so much to invent. After all, he once argued, in retort to the claim that Second Life was such a leap: ... In a textual world, I can stand in my own mouth, seeing my surroundings get light and dark as I open and close it. I can be part of a painting I am carrying under my arm. I can appear as a frog to one person and a beautiful princess to another. I can have internal organs. I can photograph an opinion. I can share control of my body with another player. I can drink from a Klein bottle. I can be of no gender. I can unerupt a volcano, store the world in a box, hold a soul in the palm of my hand, dance with the colour cyan. Do that in your 3D world. _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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08-15-2005 04:24
THE LONG TAIL OF CSVEN CONCORD
The theory of the Long Tail, as conceived by Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, goes something like this: Before the Internet boom, products were developed and brought to market over a short period of time, where they had a momentary chance to succeed commercially, or fall away into instant obscurity. After the Internet boom, however, products never really die— after all, with a retail and distribution database like Amazon, the shelf life of products is extended indefinitely. Graphed on a 2D chart, this phenomenon looks nothing so much like a long, tapering tail— hence the name. Second Life Resident Csven Concord's version of the Long Tail doesn't actually look like a tail at all. But that's only because he's taken Anderson's concept in-world and transmuted it into 3D form... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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08-24-2005 21:18
ELECTING THE EXTRAORDINARY
Handicapping the red-hot race between the wolf robot, the phoenix, and the giant snail... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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08-24-2005 21:19
PRIMITIVE HUMOR
... It tells the ongoing story of one new user's encounter with a rampaging mob of teddy bears, and the veterans who try to wean him off his noobish ways. Encounters with asexual clowns, away-from-keyboard hijinks, and someone tactfully described as a "fuming slut" are also documented... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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08-24-2005 21:20
METAVERSE BECOMES MONACO
[Monaco] Background: principality of France Area: 1.95 sq km Population: 32,409 (July 2005 est.) Economy overview: "[A] popular resort, attracting tourists to its casino and pleasant climate... The state has no income tax and low business taxes and thrives as a tax haven both for individuals who have established residence and for foreign companies that have set up businesses and offices. The state retains monopolies in a number of sectors, including tobacco, the telephone network, and the postal service." Geographically, Second Life is now about 25 fully contiguous square miles, and in July 2005, eclipsed Monaco in total population... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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08-26-2005 01:46
I WANT MY SL-TV
It is, after all, altogether fitting that two of the first successful attempts to create Internet television programming from within Second Life would come from a government-funded Swedish conceptual art collective and a knee-high fox with a rocket launcher sitting on a cow with an electric guitar... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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09-27-2005 12:47
THE HIROSHIMA MEMORIAL OF SNAKEKISS NOIR
The tiny Eurasian girl with flame-red pigtails and implausibly enormous breasts greets me at the entrance and bows politely. After pleasantries are exchanged, Ms. Snakekiss Noir takes me through the hell she made, built between her time in Second Life as a landscape architect and her real life as a sex worker serving clients in Japan’s thriving adult entertainment industry... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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09-29-2005 19:15
ABBATOIR ECONOMICS
It's sort of like what would happen to the economy if a major commodities exchange suddenly closed its doors. Though if the Chicago Board of Trade up and decided not to deal in pork belly futures any more, I'm guessing it wouldn't adversely impact a French woman who's putting herself through art school by selling virtual fetish wear in an online world... _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
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10-10-2005 09:57
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10-13-2005 23:17
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10-17-2005 20:12
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10-18-2005 10:43
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10-19-2005 22:10
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10-20-2005 18:40
Wanna hang with Ted Castronova and Steven "Everything Bad is Good for You" Johnson in-world (sort of) tomorrow? Details here:
POP!TECH IN-WORLD _____________________
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