A few months back, I blogged about Tribewanted.com’s social experiment: a 5,000-member online social network with a three-year lease on an undeveloped Fijian island to use as their own personal paradise. James Vlahos went along with the “first footers” who kicked off development on Vorovoro, and lived to tell the tale in National Geographic Adventure. It’s a suitably cinematic story, all about the challenge of making a virtual community into a real one (in the space of a year), balancing the relationship between the genuine tribe and their idealistic tenants – it even includes rituals and a tribe-dividing brush fire! There’s a gallery of photos to accompany the story here.
– Tagged: Fiji
– “Tribewanted.com’s Fijian eco-experiment opens”
– “Tribe Wanted: Welcome to Vorovoro” (National Geographic Adventure)
Posted on Feb 05, 2007 09:15 PM by kristin
