tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post2145706206049441212..comments2023-12-14T18:17:52.957-08:00Comments on The Train Wreck Love Life: I don't know what to tell you, there's just this thing about youEmilly Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-73395311406336653142010-03-14T20:37:50.379-07:002010-03-14T20:37:50.379-07:00I hope so, too. I know that it feels that user-cre...I hope so, too. I know that it feels that user-created content is being squeezed out, that support for creators, not shoppers, is lessening. Which frustrates me to no end.<br /><br />But, if Tateru Nino is right, that these are all corporate throes of a startup company, becoming a corporation, some of these issues and perceptions *may* fade.<br /><br />It's hard to tell from here.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-32672458573513536972010-03-14T08:44:01.222-07:002010-03-14T08:44:01.222-07:00@ Emilly Orr.
"What good is fifty thousand, ...@ Emilly Orr.<br /><br />"What good is fifty thousand, one hundred thousand, one million new eyes on SL if they don't stick around? (And thus, become premium account holders, and buy Lindens to spend in world?) And if they don't stick around, and the world has been rewritten so that their needs are more solidly taken into account, what happens to the rest of us?"<br /><br />Yes...What will become of those that "create" Secondlife?<br /><br />Whenever I meet people in Secondlife that have been here for a number of years I stop and ask them, *The Question*.<br />"Why are you still here?<br />I hear the same answer spoken in different ways. Immersion. They became a member of the Secondlife world.<br /><br />If I choose to just chat with someone... there's Skype, the telephone, IRC, any number of ways to chat.<br /><br />There are so many possible answers for the direction "The Benovolent Monarchy" is heading, perhaps the one I fear most is the business model of and old employer of mine many years ago. When I questioned some rather unsavory business pratices, he paraphrased P.T. Barnums old saw... "There are ten million people in the Los Angeles basin, I won't have time to screw all of them."<br /><br />I hope I'm so wrong.brinda Allenhttp://brinda-benares.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-31334719794265214382010-03-11T16:01:57.042-08:002010-03-11T16:01:57.042-08:00Mr. Telling,
Watching the waves come in, yes.
I ...Mr. Telling,<br /><br />Watching the waves come in, yes.<br /><br />I <i>have</i> to believe that you're more right than wrong; Second Life as a culture, as a mobile population, has suffered much, and survived more. My biggest fear is that, in the rush to embrace everyone who could potentially <i>be</i> a resident of Second Life, the Lindens are forgetting that they're opening themselves to becoming the land of instant log-ins--that, when people log in, and walk around, and find the first hour experience that the Lindens so desperately want to improve doesn't grab them, <i>they won't stay</i>.<br /><br />What good is fifty thousand, one hundred thousand, one <i>million</i> new eyes on SL if they don't stick around? (And thus, become premium account holders, and buy Lindens to spend in world?) And if they don't stick around, and the world has been rewritten so that <i>their</i> needs are more solidly taken into account, what happens to the rest of us?Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-50501966092189566542010-03-11T15:40:37.103-08:002010-03-11T15:40:37.103-08:00Holt,
Thanks! At one point, the groups in the sid...Holt,<br /><br />Thanks! At one point, the groups in the sidebar represented an ongoing search into potential sources for "steampunk" music--and while Adam Ant was never that, he <i>was</i> inherently committed to the music that people make, over the music that machines make.<br /><br />His concept of "Antmusic" was just that--singer, drummer, guitarist, together pounding out the life beat in percussive rhythm.<br /><br />And, while there are a lot of bands and musicians that cannot be described as doing <i>other</i> than making music on machines--Thomas Dolby comes to mind, and he's on the list too--there has to be something there that embraces the human, over the mechanical.<br /><br />Adam Ant always had a great concept of exactly where that point was.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-38059477242687100072010-03-11T06:14:10.734-08:002010-03-11T06:14:10.734-08:00Thank you, Miss Emilly, for the link to the RWW bl...Thank you, Miss Emilly, for the link to the RWW blog. By the way, they are definitely not "Internet for Dummies" -- if anything, their name indicates literacy advocacy -- and they have been one of my main sources for the problems with 'socnets' in general and Facebook in particular.<br /><br />Most of the comments to that blog (more than 1000) seem to be from people who have never learned anything more than Googling "Facebook login" to find their FB page, clicked the top-ranking link and found themselves at RWW <i>without knowing where they were</i>, and proceeded to complain that FB had changed. (The remainder are from people laughing at the stupidity).<br /><br />It's hilarious. It's also frighteningly indicative of the kind of 'new users' the Lab is desperately trying to attract to Second Life. When I posted <a href="http://lalotelling.blogspot.com/2010/03/resistance-is-not-futile.html" rel="nofollow">Resistance is Not Futile</a>, I was confident that we 'old users' can stand firm against the coming invasion. This morning, I begin to wonder if I more resemble King Canut on the beach.Lalo Tellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-82329377814522985642010-03-11T05:11:59.433-08:002010-03-11T05:11:59.433-08:00I love the fact that you have an Adam Ant link on ...I love the fact that you have an Adam Ant link on your site. I saw him in concert three times. Well two that I remember. Those were the times! {:o) Amazing performer. Any fan of AA is alright by me!<br /><br />Holt RousselAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com