Cory Doctorow Book Signing @ Second Life
Went to Cory Doctorow’s Book Signing yesterday in Second Life and it was a blast. A lot of good questions were asked, about the book, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, and about technology, the EFF, and other stuff. We had a pretty good crowd, and a good time was had by all. I tok a whole bunch of snapshots, and put them up on a Flickr photostream. Go check ‘em out here.
January 12th, 2006 at 10:42 am
[...] Props to the Second Life guys and gals, they’ve made the closest thing to a real Snow Crash-esque metaverse we’re likely to see in a good long while. Proof? Besides things like virtual book signings (I’ll treasure my signed in-world copy of Cory’s book forever, or until a server wipe deletes it!), and rockin’ New Year’s parties, they’re being visited by some of the real luminaries of the Free Culture movement. Case in point: Lawrence Lessig, brilliant lawyer and author of such books as Code and other laws of cyberspace, and Free Culture, will be dropping by Second Life next Wednesday, January 18th. He’ll be interviewed and will sign virtual copies of Free Culture (I’m getting mine ASAP), should be really interesting. Lawrence is the man who helped advise the Second Life guys on making all the user-created content inside of Second Life belong to the users themselves, a first in online games. [...]