{"id":2818,"date":"2013-02-28T23:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T23:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2013-02-28T23:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T23:50:02","slug":"linden-lab-should-talk-to-the-virtual-world-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Linden Lab Should Talk To The Virtual World Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like Metareality Podcast<\/a>, there, I’ve said it! I mean Draxtor can talk about his Xanax, Qarl can tell us he got jaded whilst being a Linden, Gianna can sound fed up whilst giggling and the two boys can swear like troopers, but it’s an entertaining affair. I’d like to hear a Linden being a guest, but Gianna has made comments that they keep cancelling at the last minute.<\/p>\n

I can recall seeing Lindens make appearances on the former inworld chat show: Tonight Live With Paisley Beebe<\/a>. Paisley has moved on, as have most of the Lindens she interviewed! Hmmm. Treet TV<\/a> has a number of shows, although these days Designing Worlds<\/a> seems to be the big one, not that that’s a bad thing. Some of the shows listed are no longer active but are fun to look back on. Media outlets like this are good for Second Life, it’s a shame they aren’t more widely promoted. Surely Linden Lab are the ultimate world designers? Would they fit in Designing Worlds? Saffia Widdershins of Prim Perfect<\/a> could probably answer that!<\/p>\n

Tomorrow will see the launch of something very interesting from Draxtor Despres<\/a> who is unveiling a new show on his youTube channel<\/a> at 10am.<\/p>\n

I mention other media channels because I see on the Second Life blog, a blog about improvements to Second Life<\/a>. The post talks about the CHUI beta viewer<\/a>, improvements to region crossings, the new email options on the marketplace, the cocoa project viewer<\/a>, which is intended to improve performance on the mac as well as talking about the forthcoming materials project, for which there will soon be a project viewer. I am extremely pleased to see Linden Lab making better use of their blog. However, how about making better use of their world too?<\/p>\n

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A Linden appearance on Designing Worlds or in some machinima, would be a good example of usage of Second Life. These sort of areas of Second Life often go beneath the radar because most people are inworld, watching videos of inworld interviews seems a bit of an odd thing to do, but these productions are worthy of our support in a lot of cases because they promote Second Life very well.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying all logout and go watch Designing Worlds, but if you do get time to watch some of these shows, they give you a new appreciation of use cases for Second Life and they should be positively encouraged.<\/p>\n

There’s also something to be said for watching interviews inworld, it creates a different atmosphere. I’ve been at Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe shows and I attended the Prim Perfect talk with Judy Chestnut of Dwarfins fame at the SL Christmas Expo<\/a>, very interesting it was too.<\/p>\n

As I said, I’m happy to see Linden Lab making good use of their blog, but is it possible to tempt them to come out and play in other media areas too?<\/p>\n

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