July 30, 2007
Tateru Nino’s been doing brief profiles/interviews of new and established avatars over at Second Life Insider. And the most recent subject is Neo Rebus:
Neo’s a Second Life kid (a child avatar) who’s been around forever and likes to build and script “and have fun and annoy stiffnecked adults. That’s what’s great about being a kid, I get to be a bit more free about saying what i wanna say and stuff to adults, where another adult couldn’t say it.”
Um, but Neo? Your typist is an adult, not a kid, and whatever persona you assume and whatever actions you take are chosen by an adult, so if you act intentionally annoying, I’ll treat you like an annoying adult, not like a kid. It is just this aspect of some child avatars that boggles my mind.
I don’t find it entertaining when adults act childish in my First Life, and I hardly want to deal with it in Second Life, either.
Now, it may be that I’m just stiffnecked and can’t tell the difference between childish and childlike. But you know, I don’t like annoying children, either, it’s just that I put up with them (or even indulge them) because they are children.
July 30, 2007
Yesterday I was on a panel for a University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism fellowship program project. The fellows had researched and created reports on “Faces of Faith: God Sex Family” and decided to bring their reports into Second Life. As part of their weeklong exhibit, they organized this panel of SL religious figures (video). It was a real privilege to be on the panel.
The panel was actually done via conference call, which was streamed into the parcel audio. There were a couple of times when I just wanted to reach out to my keyboard and interact directly. There was a good turnout, in spite of some confusion over the time.
July 28, 2007
This morning, when using either the Voice First Look or the trunk SL client, I get this instead of the usual welcome screen with photo and stats:
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://secondlife.com/app/login/
The following error was encountered:
• Access Denied.
Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
Your cache administrator is webmaster [a mailto link to "webmaster", not an email address]
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