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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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Wild, wild west 2.0

By Rheta Shan | Published: September 18, 2007

Experiencing griefing is frustrating, and seeing Linden Lab’s non-response compounds that frustration. To me, his experience made clear we have to think of Second LifeYou-Know-Where as a world, and why residents need to start building a real society.

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Interstitial

By Rheta Shan | Published: August 15, 2007

Despite the graphical bells and whistles, Second LifeYou-Know-Where shares may traits with older virtual worlds; observations made there thus still apply. I’ll hazard the guess the reality of the Metaverse lies in the interstitial space between the physical and the virtual.

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