{"id":175,"date":"2007-05-26T09:04:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T09:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/26\/terrorism-in-secondlife-and-some-other-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T09:08:01","slug":"terrorism-in-secondlife-and-some-other-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/26\/terrorism-in-secondlife-and-some-other-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism in SecondLife &#8230; and some other thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/web\/vandals-bomb-abc-island\/2007\/05\/22\/1179601400256.html\">this article<\/a> &#8230; looks like vandals in Second Life blew up ABC Island. Unlike in the real world, in the virtual world of Second Life, creators Linden Labs, were able to &#8220;rollback&#8221; the island and restore most of what was destroyed. They aren&#8217;t the only commercial organisation that has been targetted in this way.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst these incidents are both amusing and also a tad disturbing what I found was more <a href=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/nwn\/mixed_reality_headcount\/index.html\">interesting was this bit of research<\/a> done by Tateru Nino that provides some numbers for how many SL users actually visit corporate sites created in SL.  Perhaps it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/12\/the-problem-with-second-life-is-it-just-sucks\/\">like I said before<\/a> &#8230; people don&#8217;t want to visit Dell or Coco Cola in a virtual fantasy world.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to some people&#8217;s opinions I dont hate Second Life &#8230; there are some things its very good at &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Whilst I was at Xtech I listened to a very <a href=\"http:\/\/2007.xtech.org\/public\/schedule\/detail\/88\">interesting talk<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackdiary.com\/\">Matt Biddulph<\/a> who demonstrated, something I&#8217;ve mentioned before, which is just how useful Second Life can be as a modelling tool particularly as Matt demonstrated, when you are able to link physical objects in the real world with objects in the virtual world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this article &#8230; looks like vandals in Second Life blew up ABC Island. Unlike in the real world, in the virtual world of Second Life, creators Linden Labs, were able to &#8220;rollback&#8221; the island and restore most of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/26\/terrorism-in-secondlife-and-some-other-thoughts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[385,409,51,419],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-technology","tag-terrorism","tag-ubiquitous-web","tag-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}