{"id":89,"date":"2007-02-08T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:13:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:13:55","slug":"metaversemessagist-caseclosed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"MetaVerseMessagist, CaseClosed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaversemessenger.com\/bragg_02-06-2007.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/metaverse_headline.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Respek to Bec (aka, &#8220;&#038; you must be wax&#8221;), whose adventures in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cyberone\/\">virtual ed<\/a> have landed her in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/07\/education\/edlife\/07innovation.html?ex=1171083600&#038;en=affd6383627f55a9&#038;ei=5070\">NYT<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/11\/13\/second.life.university\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/gaming\/2006-10-05-second-life-class_x.htm\">USA Today<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/living\/articles\/2006\/10\/25\/leading_a_double_life\/\">Boston Globe<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2006\/10\/061017-second-life_2.html\">National Geographic<\/a> (!), and who today has garnered a spot on the front page of SL&#8217;s not-so-gray lady, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaversemessenger.com\/bragg_02-06-2007.htm\">Metaverse Messenger<\/a>, which covers the <a href=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/nwn\/2007\/01\/mixed_up_realit.html\">mock trial<\/a> she and Charlie recently conducted in SL (based on an ongoing SL-RL case).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps expectedly, in contrast to the MSM coverage, which tends to focus on the novelty, the MVM &#8212; well beyond the novelty stage with SL &#8212; focuses on the substance of what the Nessons have been up to on Berkman Island. Download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaversemessenger.com\/pdf\/2007\/02\/MM20070206.pdf\">the pdf<\/a> for the full coverage!<\/p>\n<p>onward and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencroquet.org\/\">sideways<\/a>, b &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.harvard.edu\/~nesson\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.harvard.edu\/~nesson\/becca.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respek to Bec (aka, &#8220;&#038; you must be wax&#8221;), whose adventures in virtual ed have landed her in NYT, CNN, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and National Geographic (!), and who today has garnered a spot on the front page of SL&#8217;s not-so-gray lady, the Metaverse Messenger, which covers the mock trial she and Charlie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,25,6],"tags":[400,412,403,20],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-uncategorized","category-internet","category-lifey","tag-academic","tag-internet","tag-lifey","tag-secondlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8753,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/8753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}