I am a freelance writer and NY-published novelist/short story author who contributes articles to trade and online magazines. Currently, I write business-to-business SEO articles at Work.com, a subsidiary of Business.com.

I recently won Helium's OneWorld's Citizen Journalism Awards on the topic: "How selling goods under the Fair Trade label has improved the lives of people who produce goods such as coffee, tea, chocolate, rice, flowers, and more."

Read the final copy at http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/160684/1/2216/

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writing both fiction and non-fiction; reading good books

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It's all so seductive, really. Beautiful women, hard-bodied men, luminous oceans, verdant mountains. Villas, castles, lakes, waterfalls populating vast landscapes. Something that only God could create. Yet it's all just a pixelated illusion, courtesy of a hodgepodge of servers, mainframes, disks, and grids run by Second Life (SL). If you haven't heard of SL yet, trust me it's hard not to.

A virtual world that is sometimes lumped together with other massively multiplayer online games (MMOG), SL has been in the news constantly since its inception in 2003. That is because it is a bit ...

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