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 18:47
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 02:43
Ramen simulacra
metaverse gyoza
no bugs in my food!
Posted by: komuso tokugawa | Jul 25, 2005 at 06:53
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 08:55
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 23:17
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 23:21
Just to complete the incest loop: http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2005/07/someone_comes_t.html>SOMEONE COMES TO LIVE-BLOG
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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 :(
Posted by: Lee Delarm | Jul 26, 2005 at 07:17
>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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