To day this post from compos(t)ing brought to the forefront some of the issues that we have been wrestling with regarding the new ways of the web and the applicability of virtual worlds like second life.
Author makes an interesting connection between the disconnect with reality that second life offers and the disconnect with reality that poetry also produces. Yet both second life and poetry give you a sense of being connected to others.
At least that is how I interpreted it.
[read :compos(t)ing Emporer of the Internet (and Oranges)]
[watch: video]