{"id":182,"date":"2007-01-05T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2007-01-05T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T19:27:00","slug":"a-second-look-at-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/01\/a-second-look-at-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A second look at Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately, as the interview was commencing, the event was attacked by a “griefer,” someone intent on disrupting the proceedings. The griefer managed to assault the CNET theater for 15 minutes with – well, there’s no way to say this delicately – animated flying penises.<\/span>S<\/span>econd Life<\/span> – let the backlash begin. Back in December, the Second Life<\/span> flying genitalia attack<\/a> gave some indication of the kind of behaviour we in the real world call ‘anti-social.’ There was also a creepy ‘rape’ screenshot that ran on Gawker<\/a> – apparently from SL<\/span> – of the kind we call repugnant and disturbing.<\/a> Blogger Clay Shirky <\/span>wanted to know how many first lives<\/a> were being spent in SL<\/span>. As 2006 closed, the people behind the virtual world got very excited that 20,000 people <\/a>were using it at once, which makes it a community the size of say, my university. But, hey that’s the real world! In the weirder, wider world of gaming, SL<\/span> is a <\/span>virtual nonentity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now in January, some techno-journalists are waking up to the fact that not all of us are living la vida virtual<\/a>. Linden Lab<\/span>, which created SL<\/span>, displays user numbers here<\/a>, indicating that over 225,000 people logged in this past week, but first some breaking news from our Dungeons and Dragons<\/span> correspondent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately, as the interview was commencing, the event was attacked by a “griefer,” someone intent on disrupting the proceedings. The griefer managed to assault the CNET theater for 15 minutes with – well, there’s no way to say this delicately – animated flying penises.Second Life – let the backlash begin. Back in December, the Second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,5],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news","tag-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}