lol, i’m not sure what this means but it was fun to see us get listed on The Top 10 Blog as one of the day’s top twitter trio and they wrote a nice thing about us:
And now, as they say, for something completely different. Tweets about adventures in virtual worlds from Ener Hax and her interesting blog i live in science land I can’t claim to understand all of it but I find it fascinating.
to which i answered that it’s okay, i don’t understand very much either!
thank you Top 10 Blog! =)
That is a remarkable achievement. Let me be the first to congratulate you. :-)
Infinite Sunset
29 Jul 10 at 1:08 am
thank you Infinite. not really sure how it does much except maybe raise awareness about avatars
when facebook cancelled lots of avatar accounts over a year ago and then again 6 months ago (when i got cancelled), there was a wave of blogging addressing what it means to be an avatar
people can get hung up on avatars and don’t understand that for many people, an avatar is just as real to them as they are
when i did second life projects, i was paid by companies (like eBay, Cisco, Sun Micro) as Ener Hax and they and no problem with it
so why does facebook have an issue with it? i am not a felon hiding from the law and if i say i can do something as an avatar, i either can or i can’t
so if i am a “virtual world content creator” i better have some things to show that i can actually do that work, whether i am an avatar or a real person
lol, went off on a bit of a tangent! sorry =)
thanks Infinite! =)
Ener Hax
29 Jul 10 at 8:51 am
Opensimulator is a product. Like all products, there are two critical components. The making of the product, and making people actually aware of the product.
Without discounting the absolutely incredible work the technical contributors make to Opensimulator, it needs people to be talking about it in the broader community to succeed.
My view is, that I see just as much value in blogs about Opensimulator(and the various OS worlds) as critical. And iliveisl achieves that, and achieves incredibly well, as it portray the merits of OS in a way that can capture people.
And that is as critical as the person that submitted 10 bug fixes to the OS core last month.
It is an advantage that Opensimulator evolves with core development and community driven exposure run in parallel.
In fact I shall re-word that. It is vital this happens. Blogs such as iliveisl meets a big part of that requirement.
Breen Whitman
29 Jul 10 at 7:39 pm
well thank you! i agree and Torley was a very large part of what held my attention and he formed my view that anything was possible isl
but now on his personal blog, he only talks about music. even LL squashed his blogging enthusiasm
i think the tech people are brilliant and i also think that they believe building it is enough. but that human element is so important
case in point, the other day Reaction Grid commented about in-world money on this blog and the comment came across as gruff (my perception and probably not the intention)
for that one comment it almost undoes all the posts i have talking about Reaction Grid and it certainly affected me (obviously since i am mentioning it)
some of my posts are critical of Reaction Grid, but in reading them all, you soon see that it is really OpenSim causing the issues and only because it is alpha
overall, i promote Reaction Grid/OpenSim and i think people can see that and they also see that i tell it as i see it (it’s just my opinion). hopefully, that honesty comes through and people can see that:
1. i like RG a lot
2. yes there are issues
3. despite that, i build in RG like mad
4. i think RG is better than SL for education
5. i recommend RG (including to the city of Edmonton)
6. i do this from my heart
7. i get no compensation for it
8. i have my perceptions, which are likely skewed
our investment in RG goes beyond money, that is minor, the real investment is all the time i spend building in there – clearly i think RG is the best thing out there or we would be somewhere else!
and like you said, there needs to be this “human” side that evangelises what OpenSim can do. but without being pushy and by always being honest
when i get frustrated because i spent 4 hours and only accomplished 30 minutes of building, i would do a disservice to say “wow, it is so smooth, gosh, it’s just incredible”
equipped with the truth, the user can decide if it is right for them (i happen to think RG is right for the majority of users that don’t want to install it on their own)
OpenSim will continue to improve, there are very talented people pouring their passion into it and there will be more people like me that try to paint a picture that many things are possible
i am able to do things in Reaction Grid that i can not in Second Life – have kids learn from my builds, make HUGE prims, and so on
there are also things i can’t do. i can’t do group building and have autoreturn on. i can’t have temporary groups for media parcels
this blog enjoys great traffic and i try to educate others, even in my silly and ranting posts (like the one coming out tonight)
in the end, users have to educate themselves, and maybe my ramblings help a little
caveat emptor
Ener Hax
29 Jul 10 at 8:59 pm