Lethem, Chronic City and Second Life

I just came across some obscure reference on the web to an appearance by Lethem in SL in mid January. I'm guessing the connection is "Yet Another World" in Chronic City. The article said he come inworld as PerkusTooth Riddler, an incarnation I would have loved to see. Did anyone here attend?? Pics?? I'm dying to hear how it went!!! I can't believe I missed it.

Of course you missed it. If SL sims could support more than 20 avatars then things could be advertised in advance properly.

But SL sims can't handle over 20. So most serious events are by invite only.

SL is useless for anything major.

But the competition is working on delivering 400 to 1000 in a single sim. So in the future the problem will be solved.

But not by Linden "Let's install more limits and piss off the customers" Lab.

I was in attendance, and it most certainly was not by invitation only. I had just finished Lethem's Chronic City, and poked around for discussion online. Found the relevant information to the inworld appearance on New World Notes. Contact me inworld for a picture if you like!

Copper Robot does some great interviews, this was one. To get notices, try joining Rissa Maidstone's inworld group, "W2W Events".

I haven't been to one of these in a while, but I assume they use a similar format to that used by Metanomics to allow large numbers of people to participate live within SL:

> Simulcast locations in several SL sims, media (video) broadcast from a central SL studio
> "Chat Bridge" allows the local chat from all locations to be merged into one discussion
> To get a question to the interviewer, type it into chat prefaced with "Question: "
> There is also often a voice conference, so that one can pose questions in voice.
> If your PC is unsteady in large groups, you can watch and (sometimes) participate live from a website as well.

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OHHHHHHH!! I knew I'd find someone here who had been there!!! Bith, I will certainly IM you inworld.....and Nika, I will join that group today as well. I am finishing Chronic City, and I think I have a huge crush on Lethem....lol (or maybe it's just Chase.....).

/me muses.

We answered a lot of questions here. A lot of basic questions, and a lot of offbeat ones like this, that needed a large community to find someone with the picture ... the store name ... the link.

I'm proud to have been with you all, answering and having fun doing it.

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