{"id":2201,"date":"2012-10-31T21:57:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2012-10-31T21:57:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:57:44","slug":"how-about-some-current-lindens-giving-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"How About Some Current Lindens Giving Interviews?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month Buzzfeed ran an article entitled: Tech Confessional The Secrets Of Second Life<\/a>. The article has a byline of:<\/p>\n

“A former employee of Linden Labs, the creator of the virtual world, talks about walking in on users having (virtual) sex, being a Second Life celebrity, and why it was such an inspiring job. Also, furries!<\/strong> <\/em>”<\/p>\n

Oh here we go, I thought, even down to the Linden Labs faceplam, but no, the article is extremely positive about Second Life and although its fairly brief it manages to capture the essence of excitement about the way Second Life broke through boundaries by allowing users to create the world … oh and walking in on furries having sex!<\/p>\n

The former Linden Lab employee was a design lead on the marketing team and talks of how exciting it was to work for Linden Lab during the so called Golden Age, before that waned and he eventually left to form his own company in 2010, but he has no regrets and still feels Second Life is a wonderful concept.<\/p>\n

There’s also a comment from former Linden, Jeska, in the comments section, who also still sounds positive about Second Life. The shift in culture at Linden Lab seems to coincide with growth, or aims at growth, you do get the sense that some of the fun left the building as the company matured but that’s really not unusual, more bosses, more procedures, more meetings, more focus.<\/p>\n

The thing is, the only Linden who seems to talk to the media is Rodvik and whereas that’s good, he talks to the media in places other than the Second Life blog.<\/p>\n

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Now Linden Lab did try something along these lines before, such as meeting Jeska Linden<\/a> or a video interview with Cyn Linden<\/a>. These seem to have been driven by Courtney Linden and they worked well but Linden Lab seemed to lose interest in the concept.<\/p>\n

They also used to blog about Second Life Press highlights<\/a>, to be fair they do still link to articles on the Linden Lab press page<\/a> but most Second Life users don’t go to the Linden Lab site… maybe they should have a link to it from our dashboards or the forum, or even the blog.<\/p>\n

Hearing the Lindens speak or give interviews keeps us in the loop, we’ll talk about those interviews across various mediums, I’m not sure why Linden Lab are so reluctant to communicate these days, even one way communication is better than no communication.<\/p>\n

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