Tag: UGC

 4 Comments on The Monuments of Virtual Passaic
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The Monuments of Virtual Passaic

PASSAIC, NJ, 1967 — For most of my life I have been aware of, and perhaps existed…

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Maui The Demigod

Linus Torvalds once said that Richard Stallman was the great “philosopher,” and that he was an “engineer”……

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Field Trip: Blue Mars

Second Life is, famously, all about “UGC” – User Generated Content; WoW is all about amazing developer made content; Blue Mars tries to split the UGC difference with Developer Class and Consumer Class.

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Field Trip Report: WoW!

Every time someone new came over from SL, or every time VeeBee got lost, you don’t just “TP me over”… the group has to chill out while somebody runs off to fetch the lost soul. While a bit of a nuisance, this made land and space much more real, much more tangible. You really were in a place, and other places and distances had real meaning.