Jean-Claude Bradley took me on a tour of Drexel’s chemistry-oriented SL space, and we had a long talk about that, and I could see the value. So that’s one thing.

The other is that I’m sure the folks who create SL, and are by definition are the most advanced users of it, can enjoy the benefits Philip described. (Although even he noted that SLers use Skype not SL for spontaneous collaboration, because SL is heavyweight and even they aren’t in it all the time.)

I didn’t want to steer the conversation towards what is required to gain that level of mastery, because the real purpose of the interview was to hear about Linden’s experiments with organizational dynamics.

In your talk with Philip Rosedale I was surprised that you never referred to your own Second Life experience ( http://jonudell.net/udell/2006-10-16-in-search-of-non-gratuitous-3d.html ) if only to reconcile the big benefits he attributed to Second Life meetings to your own experience.

Have you had sebsequent, more fruitful SL experiences?

-Michael

I found this discussion with Mr Rosedale very fascinating. It might interest you to know that the cake-splitting method Mr Rosedale described (to split up the bonus among his employees) is very similiar to an algorithm described in “Fair Division”, a book about all sorts of cake-splitting algorithms, fair elections, fair auctions, etc.