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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	View a recent day: June 10 \| June 09 \| June 08 \| previous days \| by month and year Saturday, May 5, 2007 Second Life and the "elevator effect," for avatars My NPR colleague Luke Burbank is hosting a new, experimental kind of show on the network, code-named Bryant Park Project until they come up with a better name. They have a blog where they're periodically posting these cool, smart little video segments. I really like this video they uploaded this week, about the sociology of personal avatar space inside Second Life. They explore how people playing SL get really creeped out when someone's avatar stands too close to their avatar... just like in real life. This phenomenon is what's known as "the elevator effect." Link. posted by Xeni Jardin at 11:02:31 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments View a recent day: June 10, 2007 \| June 09, 2007 \| June 08, 2007 \| June 07, 2007 \| June 06, 2007 \| June 05, 2007 \| June 04, 2007 \| previous days \| all BB archives by month and year Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: