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Embedded as in-world journalist Hamlet Linden, Wagner James Au reports first-hand on the emerging society of Second Life.

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  • THE NEW NEW WORLD NOTES...
  • THE PRESENT DEATH OF HAMLET
  • GETTING FEDERATED
  • OGLING AVATARS
  • THE PUBLIC DEBT OF DIGERIDOO
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  • BLOGGER OF GOR
  • THE LONGTAIL OF LONG TAILS
  • HERALDED APPEARANCE

Archives

  • "Lord of the Lessig Dance" (Larry and Joi jig for Creative Commons)
  • "The Second Life of Lawrence Lessig"
  • "Surveying the Results" (NWN reader survey)
  • "And Your Chicks for Free" (MTV comes to SL)
  • "Full Archive 2005" (Handily arranged by category)
  • "Best of New World Notes 2005" (Personal selection of the year's top 20)
  • "SLArchitectural Digest" (Latest trends in SL home design)
  • "Traveling Light" (Virtual travel agency, real travel)
  • "Impeachable Offense" (Anti-Bush or anti-community?)
  • "The Worlds Inside the World Inside" (Machinima as galaxy creator)
  • "Big Easy Rebuilt" (A great city reborn... virtually)
  • "Subdivisions" (... Conform or be cast out?)
  • "Killing Primmies" (The perils of game development in a constantly updated MMO)
  • "Losing the Details" (A farewell to SL's first "sweatshop worker")
  • "The Extraordinary Avatar Expo" (all five selectees linked here)
  • "All Tomorrow's Political Parties" (Tracking left and right in virtual world politics...)
  • "New World Mapmaker: The Second Life of Thomas P.M. Barnett" (From briefing Sen. Kerry to the Flying Spaghetti Monster in 6 months)
  • "Protesting the Virtual United Nations" (Power to the robot kangaroos, baby!)
  • "Two Worlds Frapped Together" (The Google Map of SL)
  • "Homeland Security Comes to Second Life" (Simulating disaster response in SL)
  • "After Avatars" (What happens when the avatar curtain is briefly pushed away?)
  • "Being Hamlet Linden" (Journalistic ethics on the Internet frontier)
  • "On a Bicylce Built for 2L" (Pedaling through an MMO)
  • "The Public Notary of Thyris" (How to set a virtual signature in virtual stone)
  • "Abbatoir Economics" (The price of losing a market)
  • "The Hiroshima Memorial of Snakekiss Noir" (Re-imagining the unimaginable in an online world)
  • Burning Life '05 site coverage: here, here, here, here, here, and here
  • "Two Storms for Frost and Caldera" (How Katrina brought Residents together)
  • "Katrina Relief in Second Life" (Unreal response to real tragedy)
  • "The Extraordinary Meet the Extraordinary" (Or, a katamari comes to the new world)
  • "We Burn Early" (Burning Life 2005 begins)
  • "Hope Streams Eternal" (Avatars run the virtual track for real world cancer relief)
  • "I Want My SL-TV" (State-financed Swedish artists and rocket-launching fox midget launch metaverse networks)
  • "Metaverse Becomes Monaco" (A country-by-country comparison)
  • "Bartle Be the Scrivener" (MUD pioneer Richard Bartle takes his case for textual preeminence to SL)
  • "The Longtail of Csven Concord" (Modeling complex futurist theories in SL)
  • "The Ideal Trailer" (Machinima as documentary film tool)
  • "Not Sweating the Details" (When "virtual sweatshops" become just another part of the world)
  • "Sandbox Game" (Giving a second life to their favorite games)
  • "Day of the Doctorow" (The man, the myth-- the avatar)
  • "Mr. Frogg's Wild Ride" (Hard luck musician literally sings for his supper)
  • "The World Inside the World Inside" (VR cave in a VR world)
  • "Into the Arms of America" (SL as pro-US PR)
  • "Fated Inner Chomsky" (A "devil's accountant" in SL)
  • "Evolving Nemo" (Simulating Darwinism underwater)
  • "Making Love" (The animation of desire)
  • "Big Gay Olmy's Big Gay Sim" (Creating in-world Pride)
  • "Grinding the World" (MMO as extreme skatepark)
  • "Cry Havoc..." (Building FPS 'bots)
  • "Business Model Prototype" (Planning your high-tech SL startup)
  • "Game On!" (Entries from the 2nd SL Game Developer Contest)
  • "The Feted Inner Core-- Revealed!" (Of social satire and the in-world elite)
  • "Your Cheating Heart" (Second Life lessons in adultery)
  • "Midnight Movies" (SL as arthouse film theater)
  • "Mystery Streaming Theater" (Or, MST3K-ing in a MMORPG)
  • "Art for Art's Sake" (Lessons in virtual life drawing)
  • "Furry Like Me" (One Hamster's take on a sub-subculture)
  • "The Flat World Dancers of China" (Tom Friedman's theory as applied to Second Life)
  • "The Irresistable Iconography of Guns and Babes" (Need we explain?)
  • "Sweating the Details" (Hard in-world labor straight from China)
  • "Virtually True" (An SXSW talk on virtual reporting)
  • "The Soldiers' Mistresses" (Or, a virtual USO cheescake tour)
  • "The Tragics of Tringo" (A mini-game reshapes the entire culture of SL)
  • "Watching the Detectives" (Undercover gumshoes for hire-- rates from L$100/hour, plus expenses)
  • "The Freeform Identity Bebop of Eboni Khan"
  • "Anshe at the Gates" (The business lady and the artists' enclave she bought)
  • "Moe, Few, and their Continental Combo" (Coming to you live from two states and two countries, a night of smooth jazz...)
  • "Shooting to Kill: U:SL" (The toil and tears behind SL's most ambitious in-game FPS project to date)
  • "Glossing it Over" (A handy reference to commonly-used SL jargon)
  • "The Soldier's Mistress" (From Fallujah to Jessie and back again, with a sister beside him)
  • "Greenspanning the Globe" (In-world monetary policy as explained by a heavy metal rockstar)
  • "Jenna Fairplay and Maslow's Hierarchy of Booty" (The theory behind a nightclub hostess' success)
  • "Man and Man on Woman on Woman" (Or, Boys who are girls who love boys who are girls)
  • "Missing Melts" (Memorial to a beloved resident)
  • "Full Archive 2004" (A year's worth of weddings, funerals, thoughts, dramas, personalities, creations, money-making, wars, artistry, craftsmanship, games, memorials, science projects, civic efforts-- and, of course, sex, politics, and religion.)
  • "The Nine Souls of Wilde Cunningham" (One avatar, many souls)
  • "Quilt of Many Colors" (The AIDS quilt comes to Second Life)
  • "Dream of Fields" (Skipping through the daisies of the mind)
  • "Red Staters Meet the World" (A NWN-sponsored attempt at healing the electoral divide)
  • "Neverland: What they built" (On the amusement park tribute to J.M. Barrie, and the team who created it)
  • "Foxy's Self-Financed House of Horror!" (High-powered businesswoman by day, survival-horror game creator by night)
  • "A Lever to Move the Mind" (The nightmarish experience of schizophrenia, as recreated by a medical doctor/computer programmer)
  • "So Very Kerry" (Kerry and anti-Kerry activists square off in 3D)
  • "Political Archetypes" (More Presidential election fallout, this time in the war zone)
  • "Market Forces" (How the Donald Trumps and Donna Karans of SL weathered an apparent financial storm)
  • "In the Towers of No Shadow" (9/11 memorials; 9/11 dissent-- in two parts)
  • "Return of Foucault" (Thoughts on meaning and SL society from the founder of the MMO world's only postmodernist guild)
  • "The Washu of Fate" (Two residents and the love that linked them across two continents)
  • "Burning Man, Burning Life (in 3 Parts)" (The annual virtual tribute to the annual Black Rock event)
  • "Burning Life, Burning Embers (in 3 Parts)" (More glimpses from Burning Life)
  • "Dream of the White Chamber" (Of uneasy dreams transplanted in-world)
  • "The Bodega Dialogs" (Philosophy of Second Life from a real world philosopher)
  • "Shooting to Kill with Francis Chung's Compact Exploder" (Bringing the world of first-person shooters to this world)
  • "Dungeons and Disaster Relief" (Sexy solutions to helping hurricane victims)
  • "Sacred and the Profane" (SL spirituality and its disconents)
  • "Shooting to Kill" (Bringing the world of first-person shooters to this world)
  • "Converting the Mental Conversion" (Calculating the cost of things, as the market fluctuates)
  • "Falling for Eddy" (Shared creativity becomes a sharing of lives-- a love story)
  • "Assessing the Situation" (Setting a price on the cost of virtual land)
  • "The Sim's Story" (The early history of one simulator, told in five chapters)
  • "The Taz of Oz!" (Or better, TOZ, as in Temporary Automonous Wizard of Oz)
  • "The Second Life of Harvey Smith" (The veteran game developer arrives in Second Life-- in five parts)
  • "The Second Life of Baghdad" (Coming to you live from Balad, Iraq...)
  • "Instant Insights on Sex and Race" (The IM that launched a dozen insights)
  • "Out in This World" (The Pride March comes through Second Life)
  • "Giving It Away" (Three part profile of in-world organizations formed to benefit real-world non-profits-- see that whole week's entries, to ready them all)
  • "Gaming the System" (Seven part account of the first SL Game Developer's Competition-- click the next eight entries after the first, to read them all)
  • "Living Memorial" (An in-world shrine to the fallen of the war in Iraq; an impromptu debate over same)
  • "The School of Second Life" (SL as an educational tool; three case studies)
  • "Post-War Reconstruction" (A wounded commando returns from Iraq and Afghanistan-- to rebuild his life in Second Life)
  • "From Cave to Cathedral in 15 Months" (In-world wedding as rehearsal for the real thing)
  • "Where Two Or More Are Gathered" (Virtual Catholic mass; real expression of faith?)
  • "Playing for Keeps" (Extended notes and images for my SXSW '04 panel talk)
  • "The Great Expedition II" (A brave party traverses the world of SL on foot-- in 21 parts)
  • "Sitting Pretty" (On the sexual politics behind taking a seat)
  • "King for a Day" (MLK day is celebrated-- and argued over over-- in Second Life)
  • "Flowers for Father Fairchild" (A loved dies, and an in-world tribute emerges)
  • "In the Air" (Second Life flying with real life pilot)
  • "Worlds Within Worlds" (all about SL's mini MMORPG)
  • The Hamlet Linden Book Club presents Ellen Ullman, author of The Bug
  • Ellen Ullman, part 2
  • "Private Dancer" (SL after dark)
  • "White Like Me" (playing with race in cyberspace)
  • "White Like Me", part 2-3
  • "Occupying Jessie" (the lady in the warzone, in three parts)
  • "House as a Home, Part II" (where the pious "live in sin")
  • The Hamlet Linden Book Club presents Cory Doctorow, author, activist, and blogger supreme
  • Cory Doctorow, Part 2
  • "Riding Out the Debate" (Political expression in 3D)
  • Glimpses from Burning Life, SL's tribute to Burning Man
  • "Tax Revolt in Americana!" (the whole story here)
  • "In-Game, In Business" (real world commerce makes its first in-world appearance)
  • "The Great Expedition!" (traveling cross-continent on foot)
  • "House as a Home" (love, or something like it)
  • "Crash Two" (collapse as catharsis)
  • "War of the Jessie Wall" (Political and culture clashing over Iraq, Part 1)
  • Jessie Wall, Part 2
  • "Online, in Closet" (Sexual identity in SL)
  • "Online Tootsie" (Playing gender games)
  • "Heathers!" (warring cliques in SL -- May 12, 13 entries)
  • "Home for the Homeless" (High life in-world, dumpster-diving real world)
  • Best-of Anthology, April-November '03
  • March 2006
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  • January 2006
  • December 2005
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  • October 2005
  • September 2005
  • August 2005
  • July 2005
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