*Source: News Blog (News.com) (
http://news.com.com/8301-13577_3-9765807-36.html)*
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CHICAGO--One of the predictions (
http://news.com.com/Second+Life%2C+a...3-6204024.html) in the lead-up to this weekend's Second Life Community Convention (
http://slcc2007.wordpress.com/) here has focused on the potential for lots of talk about organization.
There are plenty of critics who claim, however erroneously, that Second Life is a mess both structurally and technologically. And Linden Lab's decentralized and laissez-faire approach to the largely user-created virtual world, it could be argued, has allowed its identity to be shaped by its most prominent and press-worthy residents--who are, on occasion, blowing up buildings (
http://news.com.com/In+Second+Life%2...-6163917.html), stealing identities (
http://news.com.com/Gartner+Risky+bu...-6201899.html), and barraging lectures with oversized flying man-parts (
http://news.com.com/Behind+the+Anshe...-6150457.html).
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