Reading Radar

Life’s just getting weirder all the time. Somehow Podcast Island got designated as a community service hub. What’s that all about?

I’ll give these guys one month and if they don’t shape up, I’m orbiting them AND their trailer. No exceptions, no apologies. Hey, got any raccoon tamales left?

Life can let you down in a lot of ways, and Second Life is no different. It just lets you down in totally new ways. Have you ever, in RL, had to learn new complicated procedures to sit on your ass? NO? Didn’t think so.

Awhile ago Nika Dreamscape of Diamonds and Rust featured The Loft on her excellent and informative blog, Second Homes. Being the supportive type that I am, I went and looked at their store, and I found some stuff I liked. I liked their small skybox as a small office for working on scripts, etc, and I rezzed one over Podcaster Island. Take a look if you want - check my profile picks for location. My homemade computer desk, Macbook Pro computer, and chair are in the back of the skybox. I should put them for sale for some tiny amount.

Anyway, I bought some deck chairs… one of the things we put in below on the Tiny Beach is a kind of a tiki house thingy that looks cool in the water. Wanting people to be able to hang out and talk about the weather and how they fell and broke their hip last month, I put out these deck chairs. Well… they look great. Then I realized, these things are primarily made as couples chairs. That’s not what I wanted. But I thought, ok, they have options for single sit poses, and I can set them so that only I have access to the menus, so I can make sure they get used as single sit chairs for hanging out on the deck. Sounds great, right? The only problem is that THE MENUS ARE SO CONFUSING AND NOTHING SEEMED TO WORK THE WAY I THOUGHT IT WOULD BASED ON THE MENU CHOICES and so they wound up being deleted. Gone. FOREVER!! Mother… flippers.

I want to reiterate again that I’m not bitching about the loft per se, but I would ask vendors: If you’re thinking about using the MLP system in your products, do yourself a favor and just go run in front of a bus. Mmmkay? Really, that’s all I’m asking. Off yourself, or off your furniture, but just off something. For the good of Avatarity.

Arri made a great video for 7th Son Obsidian, and I had it on my computer and never finished it all the way through. Somehow.. I lost it. iTunes store doesn’t seem to have anything before episode 6.

Anyone have a copy? Arri?

That Wacky Particle Guy, Arminasx Saiman, is on the latest uploaded episode of Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe.

Good show! Arminasx is one of the more interesting content creators, IMO.

After a lot of babbling for the podcast, Stuart turned the SLPN building on Nowhereville physical and we all fell down. It seemed like the right thing to do… after all, that building had never hurt anyone in its life, and that seemed kind of stupid. Time to fix that little failure on its part.

They need some warning stickers about falling buildings being dangerous. I got hit on the head a couple times. How was I supposed to know?

I was all set with a nice long blog post on community the other night.. thoughts about why it matters, what it is, how to build it and how not to build, it but… hey. Every time I get serious, people tell me that’s not like me and that I should lighten up. So screw it. Instead, here’s 20 minutes of video on the now defunct Narnia build we toured in SL on the Papillon Isles sim.

Warning: It’s 25 minutes long! Or something close to it.

By the way, did you know you could get these videos on your video capable iPod? You can… here’s the rss link. Plug this into the “podcasts” category in itunes. http://slpnvideo.blip.tv/rss

As for community? Eh. Figure it our for yourselves. At least those of you who keep telling me that my role in it is to be the village idiot.

Dizzy Banjo sent me a link to his blip.tv page tonight, for his “message in a bottle” movie. Dizzy made the exhibit for the SL5B and it’s a really cool concept. Check out the movie. And check out his other movies as well!

(Movie embedded with permission from Dizzy Banjo)

Every so often listeners of the podcast tell me they came looking for me and couldn’t find me. They do know that Podcast and Podcaster Island are two good places to try though. But what about other podcasters? There’s a few great Second Life podcasts out there, and what about finding those people?

In this episode of SLPN In Your Face, which was actually made as a screencast for Crap’s SL5B podcast build, Chug and I thought we’d show you some places where podcasters can be found.

Podcasters abound in Second Life. Find the shows you like, and don’t be afraid to ditch those you don’t. Egos have no place in podcast, IMO. They just guarantee it’ll be harder to reach out and finally REALLY get to the masses.

Ok, now that I can embed videos again, here’s Dexter and crew performing Papillion in the Turquoise Planet.

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