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Darfur Event with Mia Farrow Scheduled in Second Life for January 9.

As UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Ms Farrow will be in-world at the Infinite Mind virtual broadcast center in Second Life to discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and Chad.   She has just returned from her fourth visit to the region and will be returning there again in February. 

The mixed-reality event is scheduled for 11:00 - 12:00 noon (SLT)/2:00 -3:00 p.m. EST January 9, 2007.  It will also be simulcast to two other regions in Second Life:  Camp Darfur and Global Kids on the SL Teen Grid.

This is a re-schedule of an event, sponsored by the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, that was to take place in early December, however a real world fire in the building housing The Infinite Mind studios prevented it from happening.

As UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Ms Farrow will be in-world at the Infinite Mind virtual broadcast center in Second Life to discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and Chad.   She has just returned from her fourth visit to the region and will be returning there again in February. 

The mixed-reality event is scheduled for 11:00 - 12:00 noon (SLT)/2:00 -3:00 p.m. EST January 9, 2007.  It will also be simulcast to two other regions in Second Life:  Camp Darfur and Global Kids on the SL Teen Grid.

This is a re-schedule of an event, sponsored by the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, that was to take place in early December, however a real world fire in the building housing The Infinite Mind studios prevented it from happening.

Public Affairs in Second Life: "Crisis in Darfur with Mia Farrow"

"...Rethink Media..." 

Last Friday Lichtenstien Creative Media was to hold an interview and visual event in the Infinite Mind sim with actress and activist Mia Farrow, sponsored by the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.  Ms. Farrow was to discuss the worsening situation in Darfur and Chad amid images that needed no words.  Tragically, a real world fire emergency kept the event from happening on Friday as scheduled.

The event will be rescheduled according to the LCMedia web site.  LCMedia are the producers of the Infinite Mind radio show.

In the meantime, the Infinite Mind outdoor visual event is available on the sim.  It replicates the photography exhibit, Our Walls Bearing Witness – Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?, that was projected onto the walls of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. during the Thanksgiving week in the U.S.   

Thursday, December 07, 2006

MIA FARROW, AVATARIZED FOR DARFUR

Tomorrow at 9am, actress and activist Mia Farrow will appear in Second Life to speak about the ongoing genocide in the Sudan, and her recent trip through neighboring Chad.  Details at Rik's Picks.  Screenshot of Farrow's avatar courtesy of her hosts at Infinite Mind island.

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Excerpt from the post:

"At the Museums in Second Life meeting, I heard about this event that will take place on Friday. Actress and activist Mia Farrow will discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and neighboring Chad at a virtual press event in Second Life.   The event will also feature a virtual replica of "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?”, the powerful photography exhibition highlighting images of the Darfur crisis by leading photojournalists that were projected onto the exterior of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC."

Link to original blog post.

Mia Farrow to Discuss Darfur in Second Life

from 3pointd.com  (The Metaverse and 3D Web, as blogged by Mark Wallace and friends)

Posted Tuesday, December 5th, 2006, at 12:46 pm Eastern by Mark Wallace
Bill Lichtenstein of Lichtenstein Creative Media sends news that his firm is bringing actress Mia Farrow to the virtual world of Second Life this Friday at 9am SL time (noon Eastern), to discuss the worsening situation in Darfur and Chad. The event is being put on in association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and produced by in collaboration with Infinite Vision Media. It will also replicate in SL a photography exhibition which projected images of the Darfur crisis onto the walls of the holocaust museum (as pictured above), which is great if you live someplace in which visiting the museum is inconvenient or impossible. If you have a Second Life account, you can teleport directly.

Direct from Darfur

Posted Dec 5th 2006 7:04PM by Tateru Nino

Screen Star and UN Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow, fresh from her most recent visit to Chad, will be visiting Second Life to discuss the appalling situation there and in Darfur and answer questions. Also there will be John Heffernan, Director for the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

The Infinite Mind launch in Second Life

The launch of The Infinte Mind into 3D virtual cyberspace in August - October 2006 garnered a great deal of attention from many different sources. (see links below)

Videos

• Suzanne Vega perfoms "The Queen and the Soldier" live in Second Life for public radio's The Infinite Mind.
• Kurt Vonnegut interviewed by John Hockenberry live in Second Life for public radio's The Infinite Mind.   
• Robbie Dingo's "Machinima" animated video of the virtual creation of Suzanne Vega's virtual guitar

Published News Items

• Hear the Music, Avoid the Mosh Pit: Artists Find Their Audience Online - Washington Post (page one) August 21, 2006
• Metaverse Messenger article (July 18, 2006)  (August 15, 2006)
• Right-click to learn: Second Life offers students a virtually real education - (Boston) Phoenix, August 18, 2006
• "Move over, Myspace!" - Wired, August 17, 2006
• The Boston Globe
• Current newspaper
• Globe and Mail newpaper

Photos

• Opening tour of The Infinite Mind virtual studios and complex photos from Pathfinder Linden/ John Lester
• Tour of The Infinite Mind cyberspace studios photos from Torley Linden
• The Infinite Mind Press Kit photos
• Vega and Hockenberry broadcasting in SL (studio photos)
• Hockenberry and Vonnegut virtual interview in SL

Blogs

• The Berkman Blog by the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School
• The Infinite Vision Media blog
• New World Notes blog (1) (2)
• Ericrice.com

Other Mentions

• The Wire
• Gamespot.com
• Edge-online

For a complete listing of articles, blogs and links...

The Infinite Mind launch in Second Life

The launch of The Infinte Mind into 3D virtual cyberspace in August - October 2006 garnered a great deal of attention from many different sources. (see links below)

Videos

• Suzanne Vega perfoms "The Queen and the Soldier" live in Second Life for public radio's The Infinite Mind.
• Kurt Vonnegut interviewed by John Hockenberry live in Second Life for public radio's The Infinite Mind.   
• Robbie Dingo's "Machinima" animated video of the virtual creation of Suzanne Vega's virtual guitar

Published News Items

• Hear the Music, Avoid the Mosh Pit: Artists Find Their Audience Online - Washington Post (page one) August 21, 2006
• Metaverse Messenger article (July 18, 2006)  (August 15, 2006)
• Right-click to learn: Second Life offers students a virtually real education - (Boston) Phoenix, August 18, 2006
• "Move over, Myspace!" - Wired, August 17, 2006
• The Boston Globe
• Current newspaper
• Globe and Mail newpaper

Photos

• Opening tour of The Infinite Mind virtual studios and complex photos from Pathfinder Linden/ John Lester
• Tour of The Infinite Mind cyberspace studios photos from Torley Linden
• The Infinite Mind Press Kit photos
• Vega and Hockenberry broadcasting in SL (studio photos)
• Hockenberry and Vonnegut virtual interview in SL

Blogs

• The Berkman Blog by the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School
• The Infinite Vision Media blog
• New World Notes blog (1) (2)
• Ericrice.com

Other Mentions

• The Wire
• Gamespot.com
• Edge-online

For a complete listing of articles, blogs and links...

A Gallery of Virtual "Firsts" from Second Life

from Digital Media Wire posted by Rohit Bhargava

August 23, 2006

The virtual world has been getting a lot of coverage in the real world these days.  Second Life is becoming the new poster child for the rising popularity of avatars and virtual personalities that real people are taking on, and every day it seems there is a new development that causes those in marketing and media circles to issue another latest news bulletin, write a blog post, or move on the rise as del.icio.us tag candy.  As some have noted, Second Life and the concept of virtual worlds is not new.  This was an idea first explored in the dotcom days, but never really took off due perhaps to the limitations of PCs, and the lack of abilities for promotion.  Those barriers are gone as personal media allows word to travel farther and faster, and word has certainly spread about Second Life.

Second life & The Metaverse Business Expo

from GigaOm.com posted by Wagner James Au

[Excerpt]

And just last night, I received word that a fourth company is making a play to enter this field: Infinity Squared, a joint venture between Peabody award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media and Infinite Vision Media, the small metaverse group responsible for creating an event which brought Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne Vega into SL in avatar form.

Link to original posting here.

Mitch Kapor Talks Second Life Supremacy

from Gamasutra.com reported by Mark Wallace

[Excerpt]

Though Kapor[founder of Lotus Development Corporation]  has been a steadfast supporter of Linden Lab founder and CEO Philip Rosedale since even before Second Life got underway, he admits that he himself is still experiencing revelations about the potential of the platform. "I had an unexpected spiritual experience two days ago. I was watching on YouTube the video of the Suzanne Vega performance [in Second Life]. What I'm seeing is her avatar, she's playing guitar and there's a live performance going on, I'm hearing it on my headphones because the audio is being streamed, but I'm watching a director cutting between multiple camera angles of a live concert."

Link to original posting here.

SUZANNE VEGA AND THE SECOND LIFE OF LIVE MUSIC

from New World Notes (August 4th, 2006)

Suzanne Vega is "the mother of MP3", but a decade later, we forget how hard that birthing process really was.  It didn't just involve a German engineer referencing her a capella version of "Tom's Diner" to perfect a revolutionary new audio file format.  In the mid-90s when MP3s first appeared, most people still used dial-up modems to access the Internet (if they did at all), so broadcasting music through them was a sputtering, cumbersome deal-- if you could even find the songs you were looking for.  It took years for MP3s to reach this ITunes era of seamless user interfaces and instant downloads.  (And now that we have, it's difficult to remember what music was even like before the Internet.)

Link to original blog posting here.

Suzanne Vega was SO Good!

from secondlifeinsider.com (August 3rd, 2006) by Aimee Weber

Thanks to The Infinite Mind for giving me one of the finest experiences I have ever enjoyed in Second Life. Suzanne Vega's voice was just beautiful, and the interview with her was touching and profoundly human. Suzanne played a number of acoustic tunes with vocals, but the one that sent chills through my body was her a cappella rendition of Tom's Diner. I am being genuine when I say that my eyes got misty.

Link to original blog posting here.

New Public Radio Studio in Second Life

from netsquared.org: remixing the web for social change

As a further testament to the online community that TechSoup is building in Second Life (if you already have an acct., go directly to the site: http://tinyurl.com/ogbpd), Suzanne Vega gave a live interview and performance last night in this growing virtual world. Read lots more about it on New World Notes and see some video highlights (that I co-edited in my very first virtual world project- it is rudimentary). I hope to post more projects like this from the TechSoup /NetSquared Community.

link to original blog posting here.

 

The Infinite Mind Radio Progam is Now Simulcasting in Second Life

from Business Communicators in Second Life blog

Last Thursday the weekly public radio show, The Infinite Mind, opened its virtual broadcast center and studio in Second Life.  To celebrate it, John Hockenberry, the host of the radio show, is interviewing four visionaries, simulcasting them in Second Life from the Infinite Mind “sim” (simulator).

This Monday and Tuesday, August 7 and 8, Hockenberry will be hosting futurist Howard Rheingold and best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. Tickets to the events in Second Life are available beginning at 9:00 a.m. (PDT, Second Life Time) on the day of each event at the Infinite Mind in-world amphitheater.  SL attendees will be able to ask questions of the guests during the events.

Link to original blog posting here.

The Infinite Mind

from SL Explorers News (August 7th, 2006)

by Isabella Larzano

One of the newest ventures in Second Life is that of The Infinite Mind Island. The island has been created as a joint venture between Infinite Vision Media and Lichtenstein Creative Media, known as Infinity Squared. The Infinite Mind is a nationally broadcast radio show and is making a new home in the metaverse. The weekly show explores the art and science of the human mind, brain and behavior. With their new entrance into cyberspace, they will reach out to groups and individuals to promote sharing of information on social issues and networking with like-minded individuals.

Link to original posting here.

The Fusion of Virtual and UGC

from Mediangler- New Media, New World.

[Excerpt]

Second Life meanwhile is preparing for a Suzanne Vega debut as an avatar.

“In August 2006, Suzanne Vega will become the first major recording artist to perform live in Second Life avatar form. This forms part of a larger project sponsored by The Infinite Mind, a public radio show which has hired Infinite Vision Media to create a permanent presence in Second Life.”

Link to original blog posting here.

Snakes on a Different Plane

from Confused in Calcutta, a blog about information

[Excerpt]

This week, Second Life has already had Suzanne Vega and Howard Rheingold, they’re due to have Kurt Vonnegut Jr tonight, and (for those somewhat younger than me) Duran Duran have recently bought a virtual island to perform on. See this schedule if you want to get an idea of what’s happening.

Link to original blog posting here.

Duran Duran moves to Second Life, will gig there

from boingboing.com posted by Cory Doctorow

[Excerpt]

Mary sez, "The radio show I used to produce has been doing some neat stuff in Second Life for the past couple of days -- Howard Rheingold is speaking tonight and Kurt Vonnegut is tomorrow. (Suzanne Vega played a concert last week.) The lectures will also be available in QuickTime and Shoutcast format."

Link to original posting here.

Suzanne Vega

from Jeff Blair's Blog (August 4th, 2006)

Minutes after getting home last night and stepping into my alternate reality (aka Second Life) I got a message from a friend — musician Suzanne Vega was giving a live concert inside of Second Life. She send me a teleport request and — whoosh — I was there.

Link to original posting here.

The Infinite Mind (Updated)

from Tao's Thoughts on Second Life

Yesterday night (for me) the second show of the SL version of The Infinite Mind has been taped and held live inside Second Life. Guest this time was John Maeda. As the stage at the Vega event was a bit empty (and unfortunately the stools have been moved after I did setup my camera angles and thus I had to improvise a bit) I thought about improving it a bit and thus Shukran Fahid came up with this:

Link to original blog posting here.

Vega vs. Vega: Is is live or is it Second Life?

From The Click Heard Round the World

Last night's virtual concert by folk artist Suzanne Vega has made me think more deeply about the potential of internet-mediated and virtual music performance.

From The Click Heard Round the World

Last night's virtual concert by folk artist Suzanne Vega has made me think more deeply about the potential of internet-mediated and virtual music performance.

Beyond the Infinite Mind

From the blog of Torley Linden

Today is a great day! In Second Life, I visited The Infinite Mind, which will be open to the public soon. I got a sneak peak, and you can find out more about what exactly this is all about, including the big celebration opening, at the corresponding The Infinite Mind home page.

Vega, Baby!

From YesButNoButYes.com
Posted on August 03, 2006.

My wife and I watched a TV show last night (via bittorrent) focussing on the history of British TV show Top of the Pops with clips from 1964 to the present.  Even though we're only a few years apart in age, it soon became clear that our musical experiences were vastly different. My musical education began with glam rock, travelled through punk and ended in New Wave and New Romantics, whereas hers, delayed by another 7 years, seemed to be filled with 80s big hair.

The Infinite Mind sim opens 9am SLT

From SecondLiveInsider.com
The Infinite Mind sim opens today at 9am SLT and tickets will be available for the first broadcast from the sim at 5pm SLT today. As a Londoner, I have to say I am rather disappointed that the programme is going to be so late. For listeners in Europe, that's 1am my time, 2am for much of the rest, and just a tad too late for most of us to consider staying up on a Thursday, even for something as groundbreaking in SL as this.

Link to original posting here.

Vega, Vonnegut and Rheingold live in Second Life

From The Click Heard the World: Rikomatic.com

August 2nd, 2006
Tomorrow night is the first of a series of live tapings of the public radio show "The Infinite Mind" in Second Life.  Given the show's emphasis on science, health and technology, doing a live show from with the virtual world of Second Life makes a lot of sense.  Their in-world shows will feature a plethora of celebs including folk singer Suzanne Vega, author Kurt Vonnegut and internet guru Howard Rheingold.

Link to original posting here.

 

 

Suzanne Vega to Perform in Second Life

from the Dramatech Space,  a blog exploring drama, education and technology.

The Infinite Mind launches in 3-D cyberspace
John Hockenberry hosts live broadcast featuring Suzanne Vega, Kurt Vonnegut, Howard Rheingold.

Opening events for the new virtual world headquarters include a series of live tapings, hosted by acclaimed broadcast journalist and long-time contributor to The Infinite Mind John Hockenberry. Guests will include visionary singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, who will be the first major recording artist to ever perform live in Second Life avatar form; best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut; futurist Howard Rheingold; and other notable scholars, researchers and literary figures. The interviews will be broadcast nationally beginning Aug. 9 in a two-part series about virtual communities entitled “Through the Looking Glass.” Other scheduled guests include MIT scholar Sherry Turkle and Philip Rosedale, creator of Second Life and CEO of its parent company Linden Lab.

Lichtenstein Creative Media, Inc. is an independent, award-winning media production company located in Cambridge, MA. LCM has extensive multimedia production, distribution and educational/community outreach experience, particularly with health, human rights and social justice issues. 

Link to original posting here.
 

Broadcasting Live from Second Life: The Infinite Mind

From The Berkman Blog, posted by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society
"The Infinite Mind," public radio's weekly health and science program, has announced that it will begin hosting its program through Second Life in August.

"The Infinite Mind" is the first regularly scheduled program to be broadcast live from a virtual world, complete with live guests both in-studio and in-world. You can check out its new studio space online here.

Link to original posting here.

IVM announces Suzanne Vega, Kurt Vonnegut and others for the grand opening of The Infinite Mind sim

From Creating the Metaverse Once World at a Time, a blog from Infinite Vision Media

Infinite Vision Media is bursting onto the scene in August with one of the hottest clients SL has seen yet! The Infinite Mind, a nationally broadcast radio show, is making a new home in the metaverse. The weekly show explores the art and science of the human mind, brain and behavior. With their new entrance into cyberspace, they will reach out to groups and individuals to promote sharing of information on social issues and networking with like-minded individuals.

The grand opening of the island will be a fanfare of events including the appearance of SL’s first major recording artist, Suzanne Vega; interviews with Peabody Award-winning journalist John Hockenberry; best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut; futurist Howard Rheingold; MIT scholar Sherry Turkle and Philip Rosedale. The interviews will be broadcast nationally beginning Aug. 9 in a two-part series about virtual communities entitled “Through the Looking Glass.”

Link to original posting here.

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Admit One to the Metaverse - Relay for Life - Show #1

From thoughtplasma.com, a blog and podcast about John Anthony Hartman's adventures in the Metaverse

July 20th, 2006

[Topic discussed in the podcast]

Infinite Mind launches in 3D; Suzanne Vega to perform live; also, Kurt Vonnegut, Howard Rheingold

“The Infinite Mind launches in 3-D cyberspace John Hockenberry hosts live broadcast featuring Suzanne Vega, Kurt Vonnegut, Howard Rheingold. Download Virtual Infinite Mind Press Release (pdf)”

 Link to original blog posting and podcast here.

Vonnegut and Vega and Public Radio in Second Life

From 3pointD.com a blog about the Metaverse and 3D Web by Mark Wallace and friends:

Second Life resident Quirky McArdle, who in real life is executive producer of The Infinite Mind, a popular public radio show on health and science, sends along news that the show will soon open a virtual headquarters and broadcast facility in Second Life, where its episodes will be broadcast, including live guest appearances. Launching August 3, a series of live tapings are scheduled to be broadcast in-world, hosted by John Hockenberry, including a visit from Suzanne Vega, who will be the first major recording artist to perform live in SL avatar form, according to the press release; an interview with novelist Kurt Vonnegut (who is notoriously interview-shy); and a chat with cool futurist Howard Rheingold. The interviews will be broadcast nationally starting August 9 in a two-part series on virtual communities.

The Infinite Mind’s sim will open August 3, and include listening and screening rooms, a broadcast studio with glassed in viewing gallery, a lecture facility and theater (equipped to accomodate audio, video and PowerPoint presentations) and more, including “a one-of-a-kind interactive kinetic sculpture.” The sim is being built out by yet another virtual world services company, Infinite Visions Media, this one owned by New York City Web developer Drew Stein — aka Second Life resident Boliver Oddfellow.

It will be great to have a show like The Infinite Mind being broadcast into Second Life on a regular basis. (Archived programs will also be available on the sim.) Hopefully, shows will be produced from within SL on a regular basis going forward, rather than ending with the series on virtual communities. This actually seems like a really excellent use of 3pointD technology, bringing media to life in 3D in a way that can’t be done on the Web. I look forward to listening. And to watching, interacting and walking around.

Link to original posting here.

Suzanne Vega to Perform Live in Second Life

From Second Life Insider posted by Aimee Webb:

"The Infinite Mind, public radio's most honored and most listened-to health and science show, is opening a According to a recent press release."Guests will include visionary singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, who will be the first major recording a virtual world headquarters and broadcast facility in the 3-D virtual world Second Life."rtist to ever perform live in Second Life avatar form; best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut; futurist Howard Rheingold; and other notable scholars, researchers and literary figures."

The SL mastermind behind it all? SL's very own Boliver Oddfellow of Dublin Sim fame!

I had the opportunity to see Suzanne Vega in New York's Central Park last year. I'm REALLY looking forward to hearing her again, only this time without the mosquitoes!

Link to original posting here.

Infinite Mind launches in 3D; Suzanne Vega to perform live; also, Kurt Vonnegut, Howard Rheingold

From the blog of Eric Rice, co-founder of Audioblog.com and one of the world’s leading experts in consumer generated media, particularly in podcasting and videoblogging.

The Infinite Mind launches in 3-D cyberspace

John Hockenberry hosts live broadcast featuring Suzanne Vega, Kurt Vonnegut, Howard Rheingold.

Opening events for the new virtual world headquarters include a series of live tapings, hosted by acclaimed broadcast journalist and long-time contributor to The Infinite Mind John Hockenberry. Guests will include visionary singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, who will be the first major recording artist to ever perform live in Second Life avatar form; best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut; futurist Howard Rheingold; and other notable scholars, researchers and literary figures. The interviews will be broadcast nationally beginning Aug. 9 in a two-part series about virtual communities entitled “Through the Looking Glass.” Other scheduled guests include MIT scholar Sherry Turkle and Philip Rosedale, creator of Second Life and CEO of its parent company Linden Lab.

Lichtenstein Creative Media, Inc. is an independent, award-winning media production company located in Cambridge, MA. LCM has extensive multimedia production, distribution and educational/community outreach experience, particularly with health, human rights and social justice issues. Download Virtual Infinite Mind Press Release (pdf)

Disclosure: I am on the advisory board member to The Infinite Mind’s virtual community

Link to original blog posting here.

VIRTUAL VEGA

from New World Notes, a blog written by Wagner James Au

Back in the early 90s, an engineer named Karl Brandenburg was wracking his brain for a way to compress music files without losing their quality, when an insistent, dulcet a capella voice came drifting toward him up the hallway of the German Aerospace Center.  It was rich and soft but imperfect in a way that made the singer unique, and it gave Brandenburg an instant intuition:  if he could digitize it while still retaining the artist's soul, so to speak, he would have his ideal file format.  The song was "Tom's Diner", the singer was Suzanne Vega, and it's why the New York musician is sometimes referred to as "the mother of MP3", the file format that made the flowering of music culture across the Internet possible.

So it seems fitting that Suzanne Vega will become the first established musician to have her entire persona uploaded onto the Internet, too.  News of her performing a live concert in Second Life has already reached the SL blogosphere (as here), but when I read that news, I wanted to meet Vega's avatar for myself-- and see, so to speak, how well they'd captured her soul.

Link to original blog posting here.

Back in the early 90s, an engineer named Karl Brandenburg was wracking his brain for a way to compress music files without losing their quality, when an insistent, dulcet a capella voice came drifting toward him up the hallway of the German Aerospace Center.  It was rich and soft but imperfect in a way that made the singer unique, and it gave Brandenburg an instant intuition:  if he could digitize it while still retaining the artist's soul, so to speak, he would have his ideal file format.  The song was "Tom's Diner", the singer was Suzanne Vega, and it's why the New York musician is sometimes referred to as "the mother of MP3", the file format that made the flowering of music culture across the Internet possible.

So it seems fitting that Suzanne Vega will become the first established musician to have her entire persona uploaded onto the Internet, too.  News of her performing a live concert in Second Life has already reached the SL blogosphere (as here), but when I read that news, I wanted to meet Vega's avatar for myself-- and see, so to speak, how well they'd captured her soul.

Link to original blog posting here.