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Forwarded with permission:) Please distribute as appropriate. -jh
You are invited to the grand opening of the Literature Factory at
Kula 2 (187,7) in Second Life. What is a Literature Factory? Well
now, that's a silly question, it's simply a factory that makes
literature. According to Wikipedia:
"The term "literature" has different meanings depending on who
is using it and in what context. It could be applied broadly to
mean any symbolic record, encompassing everything from images and
sculptures to letters. In a more narrow sense the term could mean
only text composed of letters, or other examples of symbolic
written language (Egyptian hieroglyphs, for example). An even more
narrow interpretation is that text have a physical form, such as on
paper or some other portable form, to the exclusion of inscriptions
or digital media."
Well, we certainly meet that criteria, excepting the physical form
bit, but we hope you'll appreciate the transgression.
Now, we have things to do and people to see, so we went ahead and
automated the factory. The Word-o-Mats runs tirelessly day and
night, manufacturing words for the factory, the Bin Bots with them
take charge of ferrying the words from the Word-o-Mats to the
sorted bins on the other side of the factory. From there other
bots build sentences and transfer them into the new works of
literature under constant production.
We're celebrating our grand opening Saturday with an open house
from 4pm to 6pm SLT so drop in to the Literature Factory at Kula 2
(189,9,25).
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Blog: http://channel3b.wordpress.com
Second Life Name: Ciemaar Flintoff
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jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)
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