Otenth Paderborn's virtual existence
Sometime in late 2014 or early 2015 all uploaded images were deleted from my server.
Enough to last two or three lifetimes, in fact! Second Effects has refined the list of Active Second Life Blogs, 2009:
After last week’s update, we received so much feedback and so many suggestions that we have prepared yet another even more extensive list of Second Life blogs. But this will be the last time.
Kudos to all involved. What a lot of work went into this task.
/me snorts tea out my nose. I especially love the unrezzed eyelashes. But where’s the eye bling?
I’ve compiled them, and you can find a summary at the Aether Chrononauts site.
A most hearty thank you to all who completed the survey. I am amazed by the number of responses.
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, I want to highlight the generosity and good spirit of Her Grace, CoyoteAngel Dimsum, Duchess of Primverness, the Baroness Lovelace, Defender of the Faith(less), Keeper of the Light (Beer), Speaker to Machines. CoyoteAngel is to me the epitome of a “geek duchess”: creative, experimental, savvy, patient yet no pushover, and extremely generous. Not only are CoyoteAngel’s lands open to all for recreation, she also hosts the long-term site of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Second Life, with all its prims, scripts, avatars and their attendant lag. Anyone who needs a megaprim can find them in her domains, along with sculpty stairs and arches, girders, a variety of flying machines, and sculpty maps of parts of Caledon.
And all this while carrying on a career and building a business as a programmer in “real life.”
Brava, Your Grace!
It’s not quite a complete list (I’m missing, for instance), but ArminasX Saiman has done an absolutely amazing job of combing through Second Life-related blogs and researching their Technorati ranking. His latest list is at Second Effects: Who’s The Biggest? Redux.
I’ve been playing the HUD-based Tiny Empires game in Second Life, in a fairly casual manner (although I am using the Federation version). I came to the party late, and I’ve never tried much to create a downline (“subjects”), but I like the approach taken by Valentine Janus, the leader of New Deseret, the kingdom I belong to. So it’s an amusing diversion.
The creator of Tiny Empires has come out with a new game, Tiny Empires 3000, and when Val offered the opportunity to try it out, I decided to take her up on it. Similar concept: hierarchies of players amassing property, capital, rank, etc., but this time with a space traders theme. If you’d like to try it out, let me know, and I’m happy to drop a trial HUD on you (also available via the website), and of course I’d be glad to have you join my guild!
If you have an interest in meeting in “real life” at a convention or special event (or even if you don’t), please take a quick survey to help determine interest in meeting at SteamCon, Seattle Airport Marriott, Washington, October 23-25 or Second Life Community Convention, Marriott San Francisco, California, August 13-16. This is an effort started by those who attended and created CaleCon last year, who wish to attract a much wider range of participants this year. Please pass the word around the neo-Victorian, Steampunk, themed, je ne sais quoi communities that might be interested.
I’ll be playing Balkan music tonight for my World Wednesdays show on Radio Riel. Come on over to Wyre or listen at http://music2.radioriel.org.
I’m happy (and somewhat daunted) to announce that the premiere episode of World Wednesdays, a new weekly one-hour show on Radio Riel, will be tomorrow, January 7, 2009, at 6 pm SLT in Wyre. The show will be broadcast on http://music2.radioriel.org. Please join us or listen as you are able. A program schedule will be publicized on the Radio Riel calendar.
For this first show, I will be playing a variety of Klezmer and Klezmer-inspired musicians.
Mr Hotspur Otoole has some insightful words about what it takes to build community:
I’ve been involved in many organizations in the real world– clubs, hobby organizations, academic organizations, lodges, professional organizations, recreational groups, church groups, charity groups. Much like the rest of us. I’ve seen what seems to keep groups thriving and what does not work as well. As virtual worlds are really just real societies with a computer graphics overlay, as it were, I’m not at all surprised to see that the organizational patterns that tend to succeed in RL also tend to succeed in SL, and the reverse is true as well. People are people, after all, and they interact in similar ways in virtuality as they do in reality.
Go read the whole thing. It’s well worth your time.
