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Brook Templar
Insomniac
Join date: 15 Aug 2004
Posts: 10
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08-22-2005 09:22
I haven't had time to thumb through the forum yet today, so maybe someone else has already mentioned it, so forgive me if it has been. Article on Second Life in todays issue of USA Today, Nice pic of Phillip too
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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 10,231
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08-22-2005 09:24
You can read it online also... Utopia Goes Digital
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Pendari Lorentz
Senior Member
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
Posts: 4,372
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08-22-2005 09:44
Oh cool! Great article!! Wish the online one had Phillips picture though.
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Khamon Fate
fategardens.net
Join date: 21 Nov 2003
Posts: 4,177
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08-22-2005 09:50
/clap
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Cocoanut Koala
Coco's Cottages
Join date: 7 Feb 2005
Posts: 7,903
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08-22-2005 10:06
Now THERE is an article, guys!
Fabulous! This one does capture the flavor. And Chip, I loved your quote about the plaid golf pants! SL is getting more and more good coverage like this. The curve for the coverage seems to be as good as the curve for the population! And I think the guy who wrote it is right, too - that one day these types of things will be so mainstream that people spend as much time in worlds like this as watching TV. But isn't that what all of us have been saying all along? coco _____________________
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FlipperPA Peregrine
Magically Delicious!
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 3,703
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08-22-2005 11:33
Ha! I don't think I've ever had a web site I've created referenced as a "source" before. Its kind of flattering!
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Huns Valen
Don't PM me here.
Join date: 3 May 2003
Posts: 2,749
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08-22-2005 14:21
The appeal of a place like Second Life, a turbocharged version of The Sims, Software is not "turbocharged" and calling SL a "version" of The Sims is like calling delicious tri-tip sirloin a "version" of a Big Mac. _____________________
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Roberta Dalek
Probably trouble
Join date: 21 Oct 2004
Posts: 1,174
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08-22-2005 14:40
They make it sound vile, tbh.
The table at the end on the comparitive cost of status symbols - blurgh. Of course the latter are not status symbols in SL as anyone can get them. Are we really trying to attract lots of really shallow people or is that the target market of the newspaper? _____________________
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Cocoanut Koala
Coco's Cottages
Join date: 7 Feb 2005
Posts: 7,903
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08-22-2005 14:45
Hah - I had a whole different take on it, Huns. TSO is turbocharged for me, compared to SL. If you hung out with the people I do there, you would feel pretty charged too, as the conversation is about a mile-a-minute and magnifico funny, and so is the mischief we get up to.
SL . . . awful quiet, compared. For me, this is. coco _____________________
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Cienna Samiam
Bah.
Join date: 13 Mar 2005
Posts: 1,316
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08-22-2005 15:32
Well, you're not feted here. You are there. (chuckle)
Good article, but yes, a bit on the mainstream 'pop culture' side. Then again, it is to be expected that they (LL) will have to mainstream to acheive the end they seek. _____________________
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Cocoanut Koala
Coco's Cottages
Join date: 7 Feb 2005
Posts: 7,903
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08-22-2005 16:00
I am too feted here! I told ya before, I came into this game as part of the FIC.
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Snowcrash Hoffman
Digital mind virus
Join date: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 282
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08-22-2005 18:03
Yes probably the best newspaper article I read about SL. I think general media is starting to "get it" lets hope rest of the world does to
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ReallyRick Metropolitan
Yes it's really me.
Join date: 4 Jun 2005
Posts: 691
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08-22-2005 20:15
Ha! I don't think I've ever had a web site I've created referenced as a "source" before. Its kind of flattering! Regards, -Flip And don't forget that the article mentioned the London Memorial which you played a big part in. *Has Flipper on his Friends List* |
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Siggy Romulus
DILLIGAF
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
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08-22-2005 20:24
Hah - I had a whole different take on it, Huns. TSO is turbocharged for me, compared to SL. If you hung out with the people I do there, you would feel pretty charged too, as the conversation is about a mile-a-minute and magnifico funny, and so is the mischief we get up to. SL . . . awful quiet, compared. For me, this is. coco Obviously don't hang out within 10 sims o me then... Honestly Mister Linden.. that shit blew itself up! _____________________
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Merwan Marker
Booring...
Join date: 28 Jan 2004
Posts: 4,706
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08-22-2005 20:44
Congrats to all that got mentions in the article!
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