A new documentary explores identity, love, addiction, and life in virtual worlds. Two years in the making, Second Skin has released a trailer and if its production values and neutral stance are any indication it could be a real mind-opener.

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Meantime, BBC ran a show last night for the first time on adultery in virtual worlds. Haven’t seen it but the slant of the coverage harkens back to the “birth of the Internet days”…remember when the Net was a dangerous alternate universe populated by geeks and pervs? NWN had a nice reminder:

Has the Internet been overhyped? Even as cyberspace is being touted as the hippest place to congregate since the original Woodstock, some experts now contend that estimates of the number of people actively using the Internet web of computer networks may be grossly exaggerated.