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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Why take Torley Linden off the blog?
There are some public relations decisions that sometimes leave us scratching our heads. When you have credible faces in your organization, you want them to be as visible as possible.Yet, Linden Lab has just done the opposite. By putting recently an end to Torley Linden's video posts on its blog, it removed one of the personalities that brought Second Life a large, friendly contribution from the most natural places where someone can find it.
Currently, the video tutorials page, barely visible in various sections of secondlife.com, buries new videos in a single link. Its RSS feed is not even that visible. Anyone who has grown as a Second Life user by finding Torley's tutorials will remember that those casual blog visits were more worthwhile than they will be in the future.
Unless you do extensive research or commit much time to it, Second Life is an insider's world that is hard to grasp. Torley's videos make the learning curve easier to attack, vastly enhancing new user experience. It also added a much needed friendly and human touch to the LL blog.
Now, a complex virtual world that most new users do not understand requires facilitating methods instead of tightening methods. But hey, who am I to know?
Terry Pratchett answers questions in SecondLife
Thursday saw millions (well 50 since that's the maximum the sim could hold) flock to see Terry Pratchett the Carnegie medal winning author of the 'Disc world' series. He appeared inworld for the first time to promote his newest novel 'Nation':
'Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick which can make fire. Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark.'On secondlife Mr Pratchett seemed duly unimpressed:
TerryPratchett Morpork: I think you’re going to have to improve the graphics considerably before I come back to Second Life. The graphics in Oblivion allow you to see the graphics in the bottom of a pond and I think that came out in 2002.
Mr Pratchett also let the crowd know he is not a gaming person:
TerryPratchett Morpork: What is an MMO? What is OpenSim? Can we accept for a moment that I'm not that engrossed by online activities?
When explained he went on to say:
TerryPratchett Morpork: Then no. Early in 2003 we had approaches from about 5 or 6 games developers. I told them all to go away and knock up something that would show me that they had a grip on what Discworld would be about, and none of them came back. I’m not unhappy about that. Certainly I would require a new Discworld game to be as immersive as Thief II and with the sound and graphics suitable for the times.
There are several full transcripts of the Q&A session the best one is by Ciaran Laval at Y2P if you are interested in reading the full session.
Dana
Monday, October 13, 2008
Phat Cat's Jazz club fails to sell on E-Bay
As previously announced Phat Cat's Jazz club was put up for sale on Ebay from the 1st of October with a start price of $2,650.00USDBidding has now ended with only 2 bids made, both of which failed to reach the unknown reserve set on the virtual business.
Phat Cat's had a recent makeover and even though up for sale it has remained open with hosts and hostesses still working and entertainment still provided as well as designers in the shopping in the areas.
What will happen now a buyer was not found still remains to be seen.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Big Plans for sl-newspapers 2nd year celebrations
Join the sl-newspaper group or click the Artizan subscriber at any of our inworld locations (click main office at the top for TP) to keep up to date with plans and find out how you can get involved.Contest Guidelines will be found at our main office after Monday with all the information you need - over 75k in Prizes!!!!
Dana Vanmoer
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