Get a life. Well, get a Second Life. I’ve avoided it, but it’s finally reached a point where it can’t be ignored. For the last few weeks, I’ve heard the virtual avatar “game” mentioned on the TWiT podcast, by Rebecca MacKinnon on the Berkman Center’s uses, and finally at the Morph blog about how it will be the venue for a Creative Commons meeting.

It appears the critical mass is gathering in Second Life (as opposed to There.com) and avatar-based interaction has finally reached the big time. Quite a long way from the original The Palace.

But I do have a beef – you’re supposed to choose one of their assigned “last name”s in Second Life, and they’re not only Euro-centric, but they’re incredibly New Yawk – Stiglitz, Greenspan, Krugman, Melnick, Levitt, Spearmann, Meyer, Reisman, Stein. What’s a goy to do? Oy!

So might I suggest some names to add so you don’t alienate about 50% of the world – Wong, Ouyang, Nakamura, Sohn, Nguyen, Ratchadamri, Narayan, Kumar. The real world is diverse. The virtual one should be too.