Recent discussions about a community conference in Second Life made me reflect on just what that community is to me. My Second Life community doesn’t have a capital city in California. It isn’t limited by geo-political boundaries. Virtual community lives in the gathered consciousness of groups of beings from across[…]
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I have been talking to some friends in Second Life about the upcoming SLCC (Second Life Community Conference). http://www.slconvention.org/ For those of you that don’t know what that is, some really late announcements have gone out for a gathering in California next month that purports to be a gathering of[…]
Today I received the following message: [17:05] Abbey Zenith: You have been ejected from ‘Second Life Library 2.0’ by Abbey Zenith. I felt terrible, both hurt and angry. I had sent a single IM message to a group about a classical piano concert that I had been led to believe[…]
Last week I read Thom Dowd’s notice to the Early Music group with no surprise but with considerable sorrow and regret. The Second Life music pioneer was announcing the migration of his musical activities to Livestream & Livestream/Facebook. The rationale, he reported, was the ability to reach a larger audience.[…]
Reprinted here from a discussion from Linked-In on whether Second Life should/can connect with Facebook. “From the beginning of my involvement with Second Life I have said that Linden Lab had a “build it and they will come” idea that was mystical and naive because it didn’t take into account[…]