Doctorow comes to town
Right now Cory Doctorow is in Second Life and is just about to start signing copies of his book Someone Comes to Town Someone leaves town. It’s a futurists’ w37 dr34m.
Cory, of course, is awriter, Boing Boing’er, the book is SF, it's published free under a Creative Commons licence in a range of formats, in Second Life there was a contest to create a virtual version of the work, Cory’s avatar was created by an in-world designer, he’s being interviewed by Hamlett an ‘embedded’ journalist in a virtual space, and you can have the fricking thing signed, digitally, virtually.
omg my head is spinning.
10 points for the first person to form a decent, relevant proposition including the words simulacra, metaverse and Ramen.
[ed 23:13 bst] - all signed.
You can watch this event streaming live in windows media at secondlife.com
Posted by: Video Linden | Jul 24, 2005 at 17:47
Yeah, it was pretty rockin'.
I'm looking forward to having my avatar have his picture taken with Neal Stephenson next.
Posted by: blaze | Jul 25, 2005 at 01:43
Ramen simulacra
metaverse gyoza
no bugs in my food!
Posted by: komuso tokugawa | Jul 25, 2005 at 05:53
If you guys missed it, the Second Life Herald had an interview with Cory three weeks ago:
http://www.dragonscoveherald.com/blog/index.php?p=864
Posted by: Mark Wallace | Jul 25, 2005 at 07:55
Yah, that was an interesting interview, and we just put up a report on the book event, by virtual agitator Prokofy Neva. All the details, including a critique of the virtual wine and cheese:
http://www.dragonscoveherald.com/blog/index.php?p=894
Posted by: Urizenus Sklar | Jul 25, 2005 at 22:17
Oh sorry, should add that Hammie Linden has excerpts up on New World Notes:
http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/
Posted by: Urizenus Sklar | Jul 25, 2005 at 22:21
Just to complete the incest loop: SOMEONE COMES TO LIVE-BLOG
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Posted by: Lee Delarm | Jul 26, 2005 at 06:17
>Apparently the words "wet dream" make this page a "Sex" page in the proxy filter at work. I can no longer peruse it or check up on it till those words go away :(
Let's see if leet gets round it.
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