Comments on: Mapping the New Worlds http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/11/21/mapping-the-new-worlds/ Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity. Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:45:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymus-Not http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/11/21/mapping-the-new-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-22243 Anonymus-Not Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:55:49 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=1049#comment-22243 It's because Second Life is full of noobs. Many of the creators themselves and the land barons too (see above) are noob, meaning they are just users of the technology who has just stepped inside a 'hidden world' and really don't understand what they are dealing with. They are called 'clueless'. It’s because Second Life is full of noobs. Many of the creators themselves and the land barons too (see above) are noob, meaning they are just users of the technology who has just stepped inside a ‘hidden world’ and really don’t understand what they are dealing with.

They are called ‘clueless’.

]]> By: Prokofy Neva http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/11/21/mapping-the-new-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-21861 Prokofy Neva Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:23:20 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=1049#comment-21861 It's a cultural statement by an elite geek. He scorns Second Life as a "walled garden," therefore it is an island. World of Warcraft shows up as contiguous space with other games like Lineage, possibly because he figures the geeks playing WoW play the other games, or played them, and form a kind of contiguous "world". Scorn for SL is also revealed in the "Noob" and "Sea of Culture" proximity, by which he really means "mass culture." Like the New Yorker map that shows E. 44th Street larger than Europe or Afghanistan, note the disproportionate size of the IRC Channel Isles and the Blogipelago, when blogs are read by a minority of Internet users. It’s a cultural statement by an elite geek. He scorns Second Life as a “walled garden,” therefore it is an island. World of Warcraft shows up as contiguous space with other games like Lineage, possibly because he figures the geeks playing WoW play the other games, or played them, and form a kind of contiguous “world”.

Scorn for SL is also revealed in the “Noob” and “Sea of Culture” proximity, by which he really means “mass culture.”

Like the New Yorker map that shows E. 44th Street larger than Europe or Afghanistan, note the disproportionate size of the IRC Channel Isles and the Blogipelago, when blogs are read by a minority of Internet users.

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