Tuesday, August 1, 2006

Second Life's virtual reporter, W. James Au, on RU Sirius Show


There's a great interview with Second Life's virtual reporter, W. James Au, on this Week's NeoFiles talking about, among other things, emergent behaviors by users.
AU: They created what they call a Camp Darfur. So it's like... tents and campfire and photos of real life refugees in the real life Darfur... This guy found a flaw in the building and he was able to trash the whole camp. And some of it was racist. They started shouting anti-African slurs and they started attacking the camp day after day.

Meanwhile on the other side of the camp, there's a group called The Green Lantern Core... One of the guys is the Green Lantern -- he's got the Green Lantern outfit on and he's this huge dude and he's got the magic ring -- he heard about Camp Darfur getting attacked... And so now the Green Lantern Core guards Camp Darfur.

And on the RU Sirius Show, RU talks with Scott J. Thompson about those infamous meth tweekers in the Third Reich. Link



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