{"id":712,"date":"2006-02-27T18:58:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2006-03-02T09:14:16","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T14:14:16","slug":"u2-can-see-u2-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"U2 Can See U2&#8230; For Now *Update 1*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who remembers the U2 tour back in &#8230; what? &#8230; 1980, that blog headline will bring back memories. Yet now seems like a good time to appropriate it.<\/p>\n<p>Since the middle of last year I&#8217;ve been aware of a pseudo-virtual tribute band called &#8220;U2 in SL&#8221; (I believe I read that they changed their name somewhere along the line and added &#8220;in SL&#8221; to avoid confusion). I&#8217;ve not bothered blogging about it because, to be honest, I just didn&#8217;t feel like it. However, what&#8217;s nice about having a new set of eyes inside <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Second Life<\/a> &#8211; in the person of Ilya Vedrashko of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vedrashko.com\/advertising\/blog.htm\"  target=\"blank\"><em>Brands In Games<\/em><\/a> blog &#8211; is that what&#8217;s old is new again.<\/p>\n<p>It now appears that a recent post over on Brands In Games (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vedrashko.com\/advertising\/2006\/02\/second-life-u2-concert-report.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) has gotten some attention as it&#8217;s been picked up by Clickable Culture (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretlair.com\/index.php?\/clickableculture\/entry\/u2_unwittingly_gives_second_life_concert\/\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) , Warcry (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warcry.com\/scripts\/columns\/view_sectionalt.phtml?site=15&#038;id=108&#038;colid=9160\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>), Make: (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/02\/fan_made_u2_video_in_the_virtu.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) and no doubt others as well. I&#8217;m not especially interested in doing anything more than pointing this out, so I&#8217;ll leave it at that and only say that I&#8217;ll update this post with links as I find them.<\/p>\n<p>{Update 1: some additional links. Hollywood2020 (<a href=\"http:\/\/hollywood2020.blogs.com\/hollywood2020\/2006\/02\/controversy_in_.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) and GameSetWatch (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2006\/02\/bootleg_u2_rock_out_in_second.php\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) }<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who remembers the U2 tour back in &#8230; what? &#8230; 1980, that blog headline will bring back memories. Yet now seems like a good time to appropriate it. Since the middle of last year I&#8217;ve been aware of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=712\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}