{"id":3789,"date":"2014-03-14T23:42:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T23:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2014-03-14T23:42:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T23:42:22","slug":"draxtor-despres-a-dish-best-served-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3789","title":{"rendered":"Draxtor Despres – A Dish Best Served Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second Life’s public image could be revolutionized through a PR campaign with stories like those in the Drax Files. http:\/\/t.co\/niVgJRBx66<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Botgirl Questi (@botgirlq) March 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Botgirl Questi<\/a> recently tweeted the above and whereas I wholeheartedly agree that Second Life’s public image could be revolutionised via such a campaign, I would hope it would be one done without Draxtor Despres and I say this for totally selfish reasons.<\/p>\n

The Drax Files<\/a> and The Drax Files Radio Hour<\/a> are absolutely superb mediums of promoting Second Life. However one of the reasons Drax can reach the parts other mediums cannot reach is because he’s editorially independent. I doubt this would be the case were Draxtor working on behalf of Linden Lab, rather than working on behalf of his love of Second Life.<\/p>\n

An example here is that Drax will soon be talking to Emily Short who was a lead developer of Versu. Linden Lab have of course, very disappointingly ditched Versu, but I would certainly fear that a Linden Lab sponsored Draxtor Despres would be unable to engage in an interview like that or with any other former Linden due to a conflict of interests.<\/p>\n

This works in other ways too, for example on The Drax Files, Drax has interviewed content creators, would he be able to do this were he sponsored by Linden Lab? I ask this question because I feel a lot of content creators would cry foul about Linden Lab playing favourites by promoting certain content creators if Drax was endorsed by Linden Lab. However as Draxtor is independent, he can interview who he likes, when he likes and not be questioned over his choices. This allows for some superbly positive interviews and Draxtor delving into all sorts of areas.<\/p>\n

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Draxtor can also cross the boundary into Linden Lab by interviewing Lindens themselves and he does that again in the\u00a0latest edition of The Drax Files Radio hour<\/a> in which he has an excellent interview with Widely Linden regarding Oculus Rift intergration in Second Life. This is a fascinating and exciting interview. Widely explains why Linden Lab have taken their time with this intergration and taken into account that people using an Oculus Rift supported viewer are also going to want to do everything they can do in the standard viewer, building etc.<\/p>\n

This is well worth listening to. Could this have been done by a Linden? Quite possibly, would they have been able to have pulled it off as well as Draxtor and Jo? I’m not sure, they do a superb job of interviewing Widely and ask questions from a user point of view, whereas a Linden interviewing Widely may well miss out on some of the points raised.<\/p>\n

Draxtor, like Tyche Shepherd, does fantastic work for the Second Life community but they most certainly both benefit from being independent. I do feel that Drax, Jo Yardley and Tyche Shepherd deserve more than a pat on the back from Linden Lab, but I much prefer their editorial impartiality being allowed to prosper.<\/p>\n

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