Mitch is Homeless in the small, small world of Second Life

Humorous ZDNet piece by Mitch Ratcliffe who’s Second Life is lived through the eyes of Homeless Hermes:

To test the meaning of Second Life, I went against the grain. Surprise, surprise. Basically, instead of signing up with a character ready to build stuff or be an online performer (a lot of second lives seem to be involved in the sex trade), I made an avatar, Homeless Hermes, who is homeless. During the beta period, when I had a different avatar, I had a “home,” a house I built with my own fingers out at the edge of the world. I even made a little lake.

I met Mitch in our first lives at the Seattle Mindcamp convention but haven’t met Homeless Hermes yet. I dropped him an IM to say hello and pinged over this entry to ZD Net.

Originally I pitched the idea of this VTOR blog to ZDNet when they were looking for bloggers and they passed. I wonder how long it will be before they start exploring Second Life and other MMO from their publication in greater depth? Looking over their list of blogs that (still) seems like an obvious hole. There are so many aspects to SL — and other MMO — and as it continues to evolve that I think it makes for plenty of bloggable material.

Earlier this week in world I met one of the writers who will be blogging about SL for WeblogsInc. Not sure when that blog will be getting off the ground (is it live yet?).

Yet more proof that it really is a small, small world both in first and Second Life.