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The great escape

By Rheta Shan | Published: May 23, 2008

There has been a spate of posts about the balance between First and Second Life lately, an eery echo to worries and thoughts of my own. But the question of balance only leads to the question why we are in Second Life, and what we want to take out of it. And while we often discuss how, and why we leave this world for good, we rarely dwell on the question that maybe should have been asked first: why bother with the effort of two lives at all? Why come to Second Life, and stay? I have an answer to offer, thought I’m not sure it will prove all that popular…

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Chimaera

By Rheta Shan | Published: April 29, 2008

I am the most unlikely person to ever be last woman standing on a political issue. But then there are times and issues which would make anybody reconsider. Read why the Linden Lab trademark lunacy is one.

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So say I all

By Rheta Shan | Published: March 24, 2008

Taking a look back at some recent debates, as well as some very personal talks I have had lately, I have come to wonder if the key to the virtual is not letting go of our concept of identity. Read what I mean.

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The world Philip made

By Rheta Shan | Published: March 7, 2008

Augmentation versus Immersion seems to be good for a heated debate any day, people butting heads and heading of in a huff. Which makes me ill at ease, because I don’t get the point of the debate. At all.

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Second Life Guess

By Rheta Shan | Published: January 22, 2008

A final round-up of the discussions on the banking ban leads to the question if the wild guesswork done by pundits (yours truly not excepted) on Linden Lab’s motivation isn’t very much reflecting the current state of Second LifeYou-Know-Where’s society.

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Linden Lab en route to Hell, at last

By Rheta Shan | Published: January 13, 2008

Linden Lab banning in-world banks might man much more to the evolution of Second LifeYou-Know-Where society than the measure in itself suggests.

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Pardon me, but you lost an U back there

By Rheta Shan | Published: January 7, 2008

A rant on SLY-K-W’s user interface, triggered by Hamlet Au’s ‘Is Second LifeYou-Know-Where’s User Interface Cursed by Knowledge?’ post on New World Notes.

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