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RFL Home & Garden Expo Sponser Spotlight — Stonewood Homes & Interiors

*Stonewood Homes & Interiors*

Owners, Rider Raleigh and Hailie Callisto, have been working together for the past two years to bring you quality Second Life Homes and Furniture. You will be amazed at the attention to detail from the build to the textures. As well as log homes and cabins, Rider has expanded his homes to include Southwestern and Tuscan styles. All homes come complete with a Home Control System that control the doors , and windows. There is also a built in radio controller. The kitchens have menu operated stoves and open/close refrigerators. The homes are completely modifiable. You can change textures, duplicate parts, alter structure to suit your imagination.

Stonewood Homes & Interiors also offers a wide range of cabin and Southwestern style furniture. You can find everything from bedrooms, to living rooms, kitchens, baths, spa’s as well as dining rooms. Accent pieces include flowers, candles, lamps, just about anything you need to furnish your home with elegance. Rider & Hailie have combined their talents in all avenues of home building and home furnishing to bring you top quality country home living.

Stonewood Homes & Interiors has just added a third sim on which they just opened a flower shop and it is also where you can find the Southerstern Homes. Continue reading “RFL Home & Garden Expo Sponser Spotlight — Stonewood Homes & Interiors”

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Techcrunch slay the trolls – Collateral Damage Is Heavy

I don’t like Facebook, let’s be clear from the start, I don’t like the way it tries to share info, I don’t like the way it operates beyond what it tries to sell itself as, it’s great for people who know each other and want to keep in touch, but it goes much deeper than that spreading all kinds of personal info to people whom people don’t know. Therefore it shouldn’t come as any surprise that I’m not keen on sites who employ Facebook comments, one such site is Techcrunch.

Techcrunch introduced Facebook comments at the start of the month, they felt this would help cutdown on trolling and within a week were saying it had, as described here. However they weren’t exactly jubliant about this because, they’ve stifled comments full stop, admitting themselves that comments are dramatically reduced, therefore suggesting there are plenty of people who weren’t trolling, who now aren’t posting. There are those who use Yahoo to comment there, but generally comments were down.

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Trying to make people play nicely does not work

Last summer, in an attempt to improve their forums, Blizzard announced people would need to use their real names on the forums, this went down like a lead balloon. Blizzard backed off after many pages of annoyed forum posts.

This week, TechCrunch decided to introduce the new Facebook commenting system, which some believe will help to reduce trolling, unlike Blizzard TechCrunch doesn’t have a link back to an account holder so anonymous trolling there is easier, however like the Blizzard issue, some people will shy away from commenting there because they don’t want their life analysed by some twerp on a forum who will comment on their real life location instead of the issues of the article and anyone who has spent more than ten minutes on Facebook knows that a lot of trolling goes on there, indeed there’s bullying there too, which is why many education organisations have people watching Facebook and other social networks for signs of bullying.

Facebook comments will stifle debate and put people off from commenting, some people aren’t allowed to comment on certain issues due to workplace social networking policies, you can of course still comment on TechCrunch via Yahoo, but this is yet again a sign of Facebook being a lot less of a supplement to a system and more of an egging of people to use Facebook.

This week Linden Lab rolled out their new community platform, one noteable absentee at launch is a General Discussion Forum, some described the old one as a cesspool but the discussions that happened there will find their ways to other areas, to the detriment of the intended purpose of that area, LL really should know this by now and just create a General Discussion area.

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Rod Humble gets it on privacy

Another interview with Rod Humble, another impressive interview. This time the interviewee is Dusan Writer and you can read the full interview here. This is probably the most impressive interview I’ve read so far, with the exception of the soccer references (it’s football!) Rod addresses some of the issues that are dear to my heart.

Mr Humble does address, as Mr Kingdon did, the non sexy things, such as lag and slow rendering and people might groan thinking we’ve heard it all before, but they are issues that need to be addressed. However it’s the beauty of creating within Second Life, Mr Humble’s attitude to privacy and the fact that he seems to get what being in a 3D virtual world is all about that are the interesting features of this interview, and I must say I find it all very encouraging.

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Facebook is not the best place to find out about cool things in Second Life

This Facebook business is getting out of control, not content with a new widget on the homepage we now have the following rather breathtaking claim from Amanda Linden on the blog post about communication improvements, which can be read here:

“Facebook is the best place to find out about cool things going on in Second Life, share ideas, and get the inside scoop on inworld events, contests, machinima releases, PR activities, fun discussions, and more. Come join over 111,000 people who have “Liked” our Second Life Facebook page.”

You know what, it may have PR activities, fun discussions, machinima releases, contests etc. but there is no way in hell that it is the best place to find out about the cool things going on in Second Life, a cursory glance at the page shows one event listed and a few discussions going on. Twitter has far more chatter, Plurk (thanks Daniel Voyager for reminding me) has an active Second Life  community and both of these places allow you to use your Second Life name, but the best place to find out about cool things going on in Second Life, is within Second Life.

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