Second Life has a very diverse community, or should I say collection of communities, because we’re not all one big happy family, some of us loathe each other … actually like a real family, but much larger! Anyway it’s not hard to see why Linden Lab want to tap into this wide ranging appeal of different experiences by asking people to submit blog posts. However it’s also very easy to accidentally stumble into matters you weren’t expecting, which is what happened to me yesterday, this was not what you’d call a Daniel Linden predictable experience.
So there I was keeping up with the latest news on the third party viewer policy discussion and reading a post over at New World Notes, which linked to a post by Emilly Orr. Now this is where degrees of separation get awfully short, because whilst being a nosey parker and reading other posts on Emilly’s blog, I found myself going to another blog of Emilly’s, which is all about massive boobs .. from what I could make out! Prim boobs for clarity and it looks pretty mature rated rather than adult rated. From third party policies to boobs in three easy clicks, this is what makes Second Life great.
Now before you think I then spent the rest of the evening reading about boobs, I didn’t, I went and did some scripting on a little project of mine to make adboards work from a central location, I’ve tried doing this with HTTP inworld but it breaks too easily, so now I’m back to doing a region only project so that when I update one adboard in the region, the others also update, which is useful for when I’m advertising events in my sim, even though it’s not a big deal to go and change them all manually. This reminds me, I don’t see enough scripting blogs.
There are lots of fashion blogs, I don’t read them often as they’re not my thing but there are lots of them, indeed there are lots of Second Life blogs full stop and, as I said earlier, it’s easy to see why Linden Lab want to tap into the resources in the blogsphere, ok maybe they’re not interested in Emilly Orr’s boobs but for people who are interested in prim breasts, it’s actually good to see someone covers that, it shows that pretty much everything in Second Life gets covered, from sciences, education, building, arts, machinima you name it someone is probably blogging about it, it’s a vast resource.
Which brings me back really to one of my initial complaints about Linden Lab’s call to arms for bloggers, there’s a ton of useful information out there, by insisting on original content, Linden Lab are putting the lid on a big pot of already existing materials, let’s see some of the already existing content, plenty of it would be extremely useful to a wider audience and let’s get the discussions going, there’s a whole slew of things to talk about, including shared resources and that isn’t just an issue for TPV policies, but I’ll blog about that later.