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It’s always dangerous to leave my home sim without the aid of my trusty chief Elf and so it proved tonight. I ran into some Dwarves, oh they start out looking innocent and charming:
I mean they look kindly enough, homely, with treats and some storytelling going on that wouldn’t be out of place at Seanchai, however, don’t let that lull you into a false sense of confidence, you’ll soon find the buggers drinking mead and getting bawdy!
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The Christmas Expo is now open, an event as part of the Relay For Life cause in Second Life, it opened yesterday but really gets grooving today with music and entertainment. The opening music schedule is:
FRIDAY – 7th December
2pm: Mankind Tracer
3pm: Anek Fuchs
4pm: Andreus ‘Anj’ Gustafson
All times are SLT.
SLURL to music venue: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Xmas%20Expo%202/15/26/22
Ok Linden Lab have been, for one reason or another, spreading out the Linden Dollar love. In one case it’s for competition winners and in the other case, it’s for billing problems.
The competition winners were for the marketplace contest to suggest new categories for skins, the blog post has been updated with a comment with the information on the new categories and the winners who each receive 2,899 Linden Dollars, which is the price of a month long frontpage listing enhancement on the marketplace. The winners, in no particular order are:
I’ve no idea what categories they suggested but congratulations to them!
Tonight at 7pm SLT Caledonia Skytower will be doing a reading of Mircale on 34th Street at Seanchai Library. The reading will be in voice, which means it won’t be suitable for all and the reading is at 7pm SLT, which means it won’t be suitable for all! However that’s the nature of a worldwide platform. However this is a seasonal tale to get you into the spirit of the season.
The story will be read in two parts, with part two on December 10th, I believe! Seanchai isn’t the only place in Second Life that engages in storytelling, indeed we have storytelling on one of my sims, but not anywhere near as regularly as Seanchai does and with nowhere near the variety, but it does happen and I’m happy to see it happening.
I do believe that storytelling and even reading, within Second Life, is an undervalued art. Reading of course has its own pitfalls, texture loading times or reading notecards, it’s not exactly easy on the eye and yet, with 3D props, it has potential to add to the form of storytelling by recreating locations, or readers getting in character.
Continue reading “Seanchai Spreading The Old Art Of Storytelling.”
Back in July, Toysoldier Thor blogged about virtual landmarks. The basic idea here is that your landmarks can follow you, the same as a domain name follows people and companies around. Toysoldier came up with this idea because he was in a position whereby he needed to move the location of his art gallery, this move meant that all the landmarks out in the wild, would become redundant. People who used those landmarks, would not land at Toysoldier’s new store, they’d arrive in the sim location where the store used to be.
Toysoldier created a Jira, which can still be read, on the issue. However it should also be noted that Ann OToole created an earlier Jira, back in 2009, on similar lines. Toysoldier links to this in his proposal. The proposals are slightly different but they address the same core problem, other people may have created Jira’s or proposals too. However Toysoldier’s proposal gained traction via a forum post on the official forums and it was discussed at the simulator user group meeting on 3rd August, in attendance there was Cheesey Linden ….. seriously!
On the 7th September, Toysolider reported in another forum thread:
LL has finished the phase of investigating the idea of VLMs and they have determined that VLMs are feasible enough to warrant moving it to the next phase of determining DEVELOPMENT PRIORITY !!
I asked if this is good news and Cheesey said “yes – that is progress”.
After the meeting I did some further investigation and asked a Linden if he/she seriously saw VLMs having a legit hope or am I wasting time pushing this idea. I was told that he/she was surprised how much traction the VLMs got internally. The LL techs grasped the concept and value very quickly and that the VLM solution could potentially help LL with several other functions (especially the centralized VLM-MS service).
See, Cheesey was involved! However since then, there has been little word on progress, until an independent development was announced by Darrius Gothly yesterday, whereby Darrius has come up with his own solution to address the issue.
Continue reading “Darrius Gothly Launches Virtual Landmarks”