{"id":2779,"date":"2013-02-23T00:35:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T00:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2013-02-23T00:35:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T00:35:39","slug":"how-can-we-bring-authors-to-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2779","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Bring Authors To Second Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second Life is an international community, as exemplified by this official YouTube Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a1CA2Tg_-zw?list=PLD237D0E11AC1F341\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has absolutely sod all to do with this blog post, but I love that accent! Well it has a spurious link, the issue I want to talk about is bringing authors to Second Life. On my Twitter feed I have a few authors, writing is of course all about the imagination, but I think Second Life is missing a trick by not reaching out to the creative talent of authors.<\/p>\n<p>Authors create visions, you can deliver those visions in a 3D world, which Second Life is. So how do we go about encouraging the creativty of authors being delivered in Second Life? We certainly don&#8217;t do it via notecards. I&#8217;d love to see an improved notecard system that could at least deliver HTML books.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Authors are not likely to be 3D artists, they also may not want to spoil one of the beauties of reading, a reader creating in their own mind a vision of how a world looks. However it happens in film, so why isn&#8217;t it happening in Second Life? Well I think we know the answer there, the tier is too damn high.<\/p>\n<p>An author could do a decent promotion of their book in a sim if they partner with the right builders and right scripters.<\/p>\n<p>Storytelling is something that does happen in Second Life, be it via the excellent <a title=\"Seanchai Library\" href=\"http:\/\/irelandslstory.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seanchai Library<\/a>, or roleplaying or other form, there&#8217;s many a story told in Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe authors could liaise with ventures such as Seanchai, which is a very worthy venture and offer to do voluntary readings there. I don&#8217;t work with the Seanchai folk so I don&#8217;t know if such an idea would be welcome, but it certainly has potential. I&#8217;d certainly like to see more authors embracing Second Life in some form.<\/p>\n<p>Storytelling is an art at its heart and a very wonderful art, it should be actively encouraged in Second Life to bring new depth to a very old art form, but there&#8217;s no easy answer to how we can bridge the gap of the tier being too damn high and encouraging stories within this wonderful virtual world.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2779\" data-via=\"Ciaran_Laval\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"g-plusone\" data-annotation=\"inline\" data-width=\"300\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- Place this tag after the last +1 button tag. --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() {     var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text\/javascript'; po.async = true;     po.src = 'https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);   })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Life is an international community, as exemplified by this official YouTube Video: This has absolutely sod all to do with this blog post, but I love that accent! Well it has a spurious link, the issue I want to talk about is bringing authors to Second Life. On my Twitter feed I have a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Can We Bring Authors To Second Life?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[1022,396],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-IP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}