NWN IN '04: DEEP THOUGHTS

Ruminations, theoretical analyses, and deep meta speculations on the world of Second Life and its inner meaning, anno domini 2004...

- RESEARCHING ME (EVOLUTION AND COMMERCE IN SL)
(A graduate student turns the tables on me, getting me to blather on The Big Picture.)

- RESEARCHING ME, PART II (ETHICS AND POLITICS IN-WORLD)

- RESEARCHING ME, PART III (THE LAW, AND THE FUTURE)

- CALLING IT WHAT IT IS
(If Second Life isn't an MMORPG, what exactly is it, anyway?)

- PHILOSOPHY OF SECOND LIFE: THE BODEGA DIALOGUES, PART I
(Platonic-style dialogues with a real live Second Life philosopher.)

- THE BODEGA DIALOGUES, PART II: STRONG LANGUAGE

- THE BODEGA DIALOGUES, PART III: CONTRACT DISPUTES AND GRIEFING THE GRIEFER

- THE RETURN OF FOUCAULT
(The founder of the first MMO guild named after a post-modern philosopher discusses community, the meaning of wealth, and other subjects.)

- STATE OF PLAY, AND THE STATE OF EMBEDDED JOURNALISM
(How exactly am I "journalist", when I'm paid to report on a world by the company who created it?)