Second Life is an island, not sure why, nor why it adjoins both the Noob Sea and the Sea of Culture.
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Art and Exploration, Virtual World Platforms
Mapping the New Worlds
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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 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’.