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The Making Of Second Life® - In Book Stores Now

Feb
26
2008 in off topic, SL Celebrities and Second Life.

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Hamlet Au (formerly Hamlet Linden) of New World Notes has written a book about the early days of Second Life®, and how it all came to be. There are lots of anecdotes and stories, and the blurbs I’ve seen on the blog are actually fairly fun and interesting.

It would seem that he’s been working on the book for quite some time, the earliest reference I found was in Nov 2006 where he describes it as:

NOTES FROM THE NEW WORLD, an exploration of the online virtual world known as Second Life®, where more than a million residents live and play (some earning six-figure incomes in the process), as it transforms into the next generation of the Internet, replacing the World Wide Web, and attracting attention from MTV, Warner Brothers, Harvard, authors, even political candidates, to Ethan Friedman at Collins, in a deal that includes the virtual book rights for publication in Second Life®,

The book is available from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble, and there’s even a machinima promo by Lainy Voom :

The Making Of SecondLife on Vimeo.

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Excellent Commentary: SL’s new Banking Policy

Jan
09
2008 in Economy, SL Celebrities and Second Life.

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If you’ve never read the blog "An Engine Fit For My Proceeding" before, don’t wait to finish this post, stop what you are doing immediately and go there. Ordinal Malaprop is one of Second Life’s more interesting characters, part of the pseudo-Victorian SteamPunk community, a very talented builder and scripter, always intelligent and frequently very funny.

She has a new blog post on Second Life’s new banking policy that is, in my humble opinion, an absolute must-read : Succinct, articulate, and very very witty, quite possibly the best commentary on the subject that anyone is ever likely to see. It’s a minor part (a paragraph or two) at the end of the "Griefbuild Digest, Again" post, which is itself worth reading to absorb a bit of the character with which Ordinal entertains us.

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Freakonomics says : "Ask Philip Rosedale"

Dec
07
2007 in SL Celebrities and Second Life.

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Philip Rosedale, called by some as “God-King of Second Life” and by others as simply “Philip Linden”, is the subject of one of today’s Freakonomics blog posts.

Freakonomics doesn’t have much to say about him in four short paragraphs, basically reiterating all of the same points that most Second Life® users already know, but.. But! It does have a pretty good offer for those who have always wanted to ask him a question and actually get an answer back :

Rosedale has kindly agreed to answer questions from readers of this blog, so fire away.

I only recently began to follow Freakonomics, but when they gave the same opportunity for readers to question Bruce Schneier (probably not of interest to most SL’ers but of tremendous interest to me) I knew I was going to be hooked.

Hopefully we will see - as with the Bruce Schneier Q&A session - some very good questions being posed rather than the simple hate and sarcasm we typically encounter on the official Second Life® blog, and I’m looking forward to seeing the results.

Got a question you want answered by Philip? Click on the first link in this post.

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Second Life + Vista = Suckage

Sep
26
2007 in tournaments, sculpties, Animating, Textures, C:SI, SL Celebrities and WTF.

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Well, I tried to get in-world today so that I could watch the Shadow Samurai vs. Yakuza tournament, but I STILL can’t stay in-world for even 5 solid minutes. I crashed three times while hanging out in Samurai Edo and trying to find out from Doll Kabuki or someone else there where the tourney location was.

I never found out, as after the third crash I gave up in disgust.

I’ve tried the official viewer, the "experimental" viewer, the Nicholaz + official viewer combo, the Nicholaz plus "experimental viewer" combo, nothing worked. Even when I am in-world, everything flashes randomly and it drives me freaking nuts, since I’m highly sensitive to flashing (It’s a migraine trigger for me). I was really hoping the Nicholaz viewer could redeem my Vista experience (he’s been working on detecting "redmap situations", and his viewer is generally much more stable), but alas: not in this case.

I give up. I’ll either wait until I can get my Windows XP running well again, or set up a dual-boot with Ubuntu (like Colin did), or Linden Lab fixes this stupid crap. There is absolutely nothing about Second Life that’s compelling enough to make me put up with this crap, and I’d so much rather enjoy my real life than torture myself with that kind of experience.

And speaking of enjoying my real life, I’ve got a new weapon under development, and I’m using my "can’t get into Second Life" time to create some new animations and do some texturing work, as well as play around with sculpties to see if I can make anything that’s suitable for a weapon

So far, I’ve yet to find anything that I can do with sculpties weapon-wise that works well enough, since apparently sculpted prims are far more suited to making cool Ice Caves than weapons. But I’m stubborn, and have some time, so I’ll keep at it, haha.

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