Interviews
A big thank you to everyone who joined us as we celebrated the opening of our bookstore in Second Life in March with a selection of notable author interviews.
| Douglas Rushkoff |
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| Douglas Rushkoff will be familiar to many SL residents as a result of his work on the Digital Nation program recently shown on PBS. He is also the author of a number of books including “Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back”. Interview… |
| Sarah Susanka |
| Sarah Susanka is a renowned RL architect and is the author of a number of books about creating and remodeling houses to make them fit our lives. She also has a book that uses architecture as a metaphor for the way we live our lives. SL residents interested in architecture and design are likely to be interested in what she has to say as are those who are just interested in being mindful about the way they live. Interview… |
| Jeff Barr |
| Jeff Barr may be more familiar to many SL residents as his SL avatar Jeffronius Batra. He is Amazon’s Web Evangelist, and now he has written a book about hosting Web sites in the cloud using Amazon’s Web Services. Interview… |
| Peter May |
| Peter May is the author of a number of books including “Virtually Dead”, one of the first novels set in SL. It’s a thriller that spans RL and SL and will be fun reading for SL residents who enjoy page-turning fiction. Interview… |
| Bob Garfield |
| Bob Garfield is host of the NPR show “On The Media”. He is also the author of a variety of books about advertising and the media including his latest: “The Chaos Scenario”. It’s an entertaining book which discusses how social media has changed the nature of media and business. Interview… |
| Jasper Fforde |
| Jasper Fforde is the author of a variety of novels that engage the imagination in a way that is likely to appeal to many Second Life residents. These include the bestselling Thursday Next series starting with “The Eyre Affair”, The Nursery Crime series, and his newest book, “Shades of Grey”. Interview… |
Many thanks to our friends at World2Worlds for help with our bookstore opening events.