The Song of the Dodo

A tremendous book about island realities and evolution. A very tangential and divergent path to take on this SL thing, but I love this book - and David Quammen is such a fantastic writer... I used to really enjoy his column in Outside magazine a long time ago, before it became too commercialized.

I thought of this when I thought that in SL, if and when the corporate 800-lb gorillas take over SL, that is, if it ever starts generating enough eyeballs and dollars to get them in there, that there will have to be islands of non-commercial stuff, like the places and islands where researchers, educators, and other people who are more interested in the greater good than in personal gratification that SL offers many. And islands do funny things to people.