<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0a41ee4f-797d-46ef-ac3e-3972da0554f9/B48386AF-D518-446A-A73E-79B5B3195883/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.disinfo.com/site/" href="http://www.disinfo.com/site/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.disinfo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.disinfo.com/site/"><table background="" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><FONT>Second Life: 'Everyone's Favorite Ghost Town'</FONT><BR /><FONT>'All I can say is, when I log into <A href="http://www.valleywag.com/tech/second-life">Second Life</A>, I usually see twenty people crowded around a stripper, a gigantic elephant with letters on its body, and some other avatars asleep in a chair trying to scrounge up a handful of Linden dollars. I can get that scene in my local dive bar. I'll have to get back in there and take a look around everyone's favorite digital ghost town. After all, it will be much more fun to experience a technology bust in the virtual world than in the real one. <I><A href="http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2007/01/03/second-life-has-no-life/">Jason Kaneshiro</A>, a disappointed resident of Linden Lab's much-hyped virtual world, is a web designer, and writes the <A href="http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/about-this-blog/">Webomatica</A> blog</I>.' (Valleywag <A href="http://www.valleywag.com/tech/second-life/everyones-favorite-digital-ghost-town-226008.php">article</A>).</FONT><BR /><BR /><TABLE cellSpacing="0" cols="0" cellPadding="0" width="100%" dataPageSize="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD align="left"><FONT><A href="http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18200.html">Read More...</A></FONT> </TD><TD align="right"><FONT>posted by alex on Jan 05, 2007 - 04:16 AM</FONT> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.disinfo.com/site/"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B48386AF-D518-446A-A73E-79B5B3195883/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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