When I saw Dan Eldon's book The Journey is the Destination on September 5, 1999, I was 25 years old, facing a major crossroads in my life. The book is filled with windows into the world of a young man who, at 22, was a Reuters photographer covering the crisis...

Fashion week took New York by storm this week. Designers paraded out their latest offerings while fashionistas and celebrities from around the globe fought over the coveted front seats along the catwalks. iVillage, along with the virtual ASpiRE Modeling Agency offered an alternative to the crowded tents in Bryant Park...

As the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland comes to Second Life on January 26, it's time to embrace the creative side of the next digital divide and realize--for better or worse--that an irrevocable change in global society has taken place. The theme of this year's forum is...

When I started writing "Sex, Money and Fame in Second Life" seven weeks ago, one name was on every avatar's lips: Anshe Chung. She's famous for her money, in fact--she claims to have become the world's first virtual millionaire in 2006 from...

Week 6: The biological clock has Gone Digital

The last thing I expected to find while browsing the Second Life classifieds was an adoption agency. I teleported myself into the New Life Adoption Agency to find a brunette Fabio-type named Kenan in a black leather coat, surrounded by...

Week 5

Yes, Eureka, there is a Santa Claus! But he might show up at your house uninvited, wearing nothing but leather chaps and a disaffected stare...

After a month in Second Life, I have a fully furnished waterfront home that glows with the burnished gold of perpetual sunset....

Week 4

So it's week four in Second Life and I'm headed to meet Arianna in the brand-spanking-new ivillage loft where the ever evolving "where women connect" website is hosting their first Girls Night Out. By...

I can make it from Grand Central Station to Battery Park in a downpour without getting wet, but after three weeks in the virtual world Second Life I've barely mastered the...

Will Aimee Weber cross over into mainstream celebrity when NBC makes its virtual debut on Second Life tonight?

The powerhouse creative force Aimee Weber, designer of the popular *PREEN* clothing line and project manager for the creation of NBC's virtual presence in SL, sat...

This week, I accidentally teleported myself into a Second Life bedroom and was promptly spotted by two unsuspecting lovers. But as I'd only been a resident in this virtual world for two weeks, I didn't know how to teleport myself back out. So I stood there awkwardly, and then politely...

I first heard about Second Life, a virtual world, during lunch last week with a group of colleagues including the prolific writer and futurist Dr.Clifford Pickover. Listening to him talk about it, I couldn't wrap my mind around what Second Life might be. I didn't even know what...

Dear Honorable First Lady Laura Bush:

On October 18, I touched down at the Louis Armstrong International Airport, still shaky from an aerial view of the destruction of New Orleans. While I booked a shuttle to the Marriot in the French Quarter, the woman at the kiosk announced that you...