Re: [-empyre-] hi

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

I was on MOOs for a long time, and set up one with Kayo Matsushita at the 
New School. I didn't find any difficulties with choosing; in fact, people 
formed associations and friendships paralleling real-world ones. There 
were also politics, and issues of governance; Dibbell goes into that at 
great length. Being on a MOO was a continuous narrative in fact; as the 
web developed, people flocked to IM and other forms, including blogs; the 
MOOs now are mainly for teaching and the older ones still function quite 
well with core people - Alan

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