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I’m always glad to see metaversal citizens chime in and join our own little conversation here on virtual worlds. This conversation is unique in having the distictive quality of NOT licking the heels of corporate interests like the mainstream blogs and groups do. We are forging our own path, not seeking to drag all the old media dinosaurs to our new worlds. As if….

In this review fellow SL resident Darb Dabney shows he read the book (twice!) in his review below of the metaverse Manifesto on Amazon. Thanks Darb, I think you too hit the points squarely too. I’m always really glad to hear when someone gets something out of the book and let’s me know. The idea of an avatar writing a book is new, and innovated right here, by Studio SFO - it happened here first. Now, as predicted, major corporations are following us into the territory. Hey, imitation is flattery, right? Stay tuned for more metaverse Manifesto moments!
From Amazon.com page located here.

Metaverses are manifest, July 15, 2007

“The metaverse Manifesto (caps intended) is a pithy pamphlet.
This book introduces many social issues that emerge as natural consequences of people willingly immersing themselves into what was science fiction before 1988–a dynamic shared 3D graphic context that visibly includes both the viewer and others viewing at that moment. It’s a big topic, and the book hits many points squarely.

Orange Montagne channels a time-tested tone and cadence from Engels & Co. (1848) to present wry analogies: those who would immerse themselves in virtual worlds as proletariat, and those who consciously create new reality as vanguard of that class. Audacious? Perhaps. As structure for quickly reaching key observations of a huge new topic, it seems to work.

I’ve read this book twice now, on both sides of the Atlantic in the past three weeks. I’d suggest that if you are barely curious about virtual worlds, haven’t read _Snow_Crash_ since the early 1990’s, and never been inside the likes of World of Warcraft or Second Life, then this book may be too intense to make deep sense; (hence four stars rather than five.)

If you have so much as logged into Second Life and changed the size of your ears, understand the point of “The customizable Avatar itself is a more accurate representation of the being than the human form.”, and have a sense of humor in English language, you might enjoy this book quite a lot.

Should you own land in Second Life and have executed a build, this is a little red book of comradeship written just for you.

-=Darb Dabney”Thanks for the review Darb!

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