- the right band of people
- can work together
- have a huge amount of fun
- make a bunch of money
- try to save the world
- the wrong band of people
- can't work together
- don't have a huge amount of fun
- aren't making a bunch of money
- not trying to save the world
Syndicating the Second Life blogosphere

crossposted to DrFran Does SL

I’ve seen a lot of software effect & instrument UIs, but this struck me as appearing both realistic yet having sensible controls for the contemporary age.
The freq range reminds me of my Dad’s old 80s stereo. Cantopop would come blaring outta that thang. Here, the blue and orange have a welcoming glow.
Passive-Active Pack by Softube
There’s even more to explore in the 6pi sim (featured in my previous post). The 110 Prims Junk entrance looks unobtrusive from the surface–no more than a sunken pathway to an abandoned platform.
Just wait until you tumble into the entrance, falling underwater into what appears to be a submerged laboratory. The ethereal light filtering through the water and the glowing canisters set up inside the dark, caged-off rooms feel chilling, creepy, and fantastic.
Skin: Plastik -BaelElvenLavender-Stain
Hair: Exile – Maren/mink
Eyes: Plastik – Jerusalem-BlueBrown [part of the November group gift]
Eyelashes: glow studio – Innocent. eyelashes – soft
Jacket: Ohmai – Tomomo Loose Vest [GAUCHEGREY]
Shirt: Pink Outfitters – Poppy Sheer Chiffon Blouse (shirt) – black
Bra: Dutch Touch – HalterTop Lace [old free gift]
Pants: LeLutka -MICK pants/black
Shoes: Maitreya Gold – IXkin Black
Scarf: Cubic Effect – stole(Dark Gray)


I spent a few hours of my Halloween this year in the UK at the Open University's party in a castle in Second Life. I had the Halloween honor of announcing the new name of the OU community village, chosen by the community itself--OUtopia. While OU community members were dancing the night away, one OU staff member, in an outstanding Trick instead of Treat, made the castle vanish suddenly, hurling us all to the ground scratching our virtual heads. Dancing resumed instantly with hardly a treat dropped. Open University understands the importance of nurturing community and is developing some significant expertise in that area. They do it in playful style.
I had an opportunity to speak with Anna a few days after the party.
Anna, I think your team at the Open University is an exemplar in growing and supporting community. From what I understand, your community has been an overwhelmingly successful aspect of the OU efforts in SL. What is your next step in community activity?
Our next step is to give the community a stronger sense of ownership of the island, beginning with the opportunity to rename the island. This ties in with our name change from Open Life to Open University on our main region space. We're putting an infrastructure in place to enable more participatory management of the land. Initially, community members could build within their house or allotment spaces and organize activities, but management was done centrally by a few OU staff. We're now turning that over to the community and experimenting with governance. We're starting by creating a Community Council -a small group, with fixed areas of responsibility, initially appointed by management from volunteer applicants but possibly elected in future. A Village Rep will actively seek out opinions of residents and feed these back to the council. A Council Chair elected by the council members will organise Council meetings and pass info to/from management. Events Officers will plan social events and have SL permissions to set up objects/media in certain areas. There will be other supporting roles such as a Prim Litter Warden, and a publican for the Open Arms.
What outcomes would you like to see by giving the community more powers?
We're interested in open-ended outcomes. We're looking forward to seeing and learning from what the community does. For example, what if the elected council decides there should be no houses on the island. I think the only way community will flourish in the long term is if they have ownership. There is already a strong sense of this. The buddy board is a great example. These boards are just within the nOUbie Centre, which is where people land when they visit the core Open University island for the first time. Buddies are volunteers, and when they're online their board becomes active with their picture. If a visitor clicks on that picture, it sends an IM to the buddy, who will then teleport to the nOUbie Centre and offer support. People are very proactive in being buddies, responding to newcomers and wanting to bring them inworld with a positive start. Seeing this enthusiasm has encouraged us to give them total ownership.
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Yeah I am syndicated and you should be too, that is if you are a fashion blogger YAY. So here are the list of lovely feeds this nerd girl belongs too:
Metavirtual.us – Administered by Lizzie’s pal Kesseret Steeplechase. I <3 Kess and she loves her feed so much. She is often updating and improving the feed and it’s really looking beautiful. She’s a tech super whiz let me tell ya! It’s her baby so please join and peruse now!
iheartsl.com – Administered by Lizzie’s pal Gogolita of Juicy Bomb fame. I <3 Gogo and her outspoken ways. It’s very readable and there is an option to be syndicated to the Grandfather of all feeds in SL – Fashion Planet. So please join her feed also.
fashion.shopaholicfeed.com – Luna Jubilee’s project – easy to read and well-managed. She also offers a community feed for non-fashion bloggers as well, YAY. Please join as well!
InQconnections.com – Affiliated with the inworld PR agency Q Group. Nicely categorized if you are looking for a specific item such as hair and shoes. And yeah join here too LOL.
Okay that’s it for this post. Hugs!


Before We Are The Network concludes that Google is indeed evil, I’d like to mention here two blogposts pointing out some great use cases for Google Wave. I particularly appreciate the fact that these use cases are no rocket science.
On Rezzable Thinkerer Melville explains how to use Wave for collaborative blogging, actually calling it “informational networking”. He goes into great detail explaining how exactly he uses Wave for organizing his blogging, even using it for collecting and organizing links. One very important element is tagging.
FreshNetworks compares Twitter with Google Wave as a backchat channel during conferences. As yet this is not easy to experiment with because many people don’t have access to Wave, but in this case invites were provided. It seems that some pretty impressive reporting on the conference was enabled.
We should realize that Wave is still in preview. Experiments at conferences are done by early adopters, and as we all know, early adopters are kind, gentle and civilized. I guess it was not a problem at the conference to have people editing each others notes – but that will most certainly become a problem once the service is accessible by all. By then I can only hope that access management for waves will be more sophisticated (like it is now the case for wikis).
Roland Legrand
We Are The Network will discuss whether Google is destined to become evil, tomorrow Tuesday at 12PM noon SL (US Pacific Time), that is at 9 pm CET. 
We will be at the Epoch Institute in Second Life™
Click here to teleport to the Epoch Institute in Second Life™
This Week’s Topic
“Is Google Destined To Become Evil?”
In Google’s 2004 SEC registration statement was this statement from the founders of Google, explaining the new pact that Google would make with the world, in order to ease concerns about privacy, control and security related to the services that were being constructed, as well as others to come later on. This statement has been widely referred to as Google’s goal to “Don’t Be Evil”.
As Google has grown, it has accumulated and centralized a previously unknown level of personal information, made it eminently searchable in seconds, and provided numerous services that are focused on accomplishing these goals. At the same time, the willingness of people to freely share personal information (often in return for services that have the appearance of being free to the individual) is based on a generalized belief that Google will forever hold to its mantra of “do no evil”. Is this a reasonable assumption? What if that assumption, that millions of us have taken as a reasonable risk, turns out to be false?
A phrase that appears as part and parcel of corporate and political governance discussions is “Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely”. Is Google on the path to absolute power (or perhaps has reached it already?), and if so, what would stop this long known maxim from exerting itself over time?
In this session we will discuss the meaning of absolute power in the Internet age, how Google fits into the picture of privacy, security and trust, and discuss some possible scenarios, both good and bad, for how Google’s continued expansion might play out.
More information on JoelFoner.com
Roland Legrand
