linden research.

It’s not about “fear of change” — it’s about identity and control.

 In a rather uncon­ven­tional move of PR pen­man­ship, Ham­let Au took to his blog last month and blamed his entire read­er­ship for the future down­fall of Second Life. It’s your “fear of change” that threatens SL he wrote, guf­faw­ing at us all as if we were back­wards yokels afraid that elec­tri­city might actu­ally be witch­craft. You…
20 Apr
2011

Meaning, prims, and sense-making mechanisms.

 Last night I vis­ited @sorornishi’s Second Life art exhibit, Tran­sub­stan­ti­ation. I’d read an inter­est­ing blog post on it by @botgirlq (who’s Machin­ima I thor­oughly recom­mend you check out!) so thought I’d drop by. As beau­ti­ful as it is, one thing I found par­tic­u­larly intriguing was the philo­sophy behind it. Soror writes: “The Prim con­tains my body and my…
08 Apr
2011

Suggestion: Second Life Social Ads.

 It’s not always easy being soci­able in Second Life. Sure you can go and accost some unsus­pect­ing res­id­ent, make con­ver­sa­tion, and then friend them manically before they finally give in, but this is often an awk­ward, unsuc­cess­ful, and extremely daunt­ing pro­cess — espe­cially if you’re a new­bie. So it’s kind of strange then that whilst the…
30 Mar
2011