Nalates Urriah

Second Life Bits – Week 49

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No Blogger Illuminati

No Secret Bloggers Club… Really!!! Honest! See: Exclusive – There Is No Secret Second Life Bloggers Club

Mezzaluna
Mezzaluna

I think this is funny. There are people that are friends with various members of the development community, Linden and third party. It isn’t so much that developers help out their friends more than others as it is familiarity with a person allows you tell when they are up to something or holding something back. That is a sign to start digging.

Often we know a new shinny is coming because people start clamming up. 

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What Sansar won’t be?

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Lots of us are blogging about Project Sansar®. Well… there isn’t much happening in Second Life™, so…

Loki Eloit has posted his thoughts on what Sansar won’t be. His ideas are different from those of the blogs he is reading. Loki says he hasn’t seen any evidence that technically Project Sansar will be anything like Second Life. I don’t understand what he is saying. We know it is going to be a 3D persistent world capable of supporting avatars, clothes, buildings… seems similar.

Castle Hideaway
Castle Hideaway

But, check out Loki’s thinking in: The fun in predicting what Sansar won’t be. He makes several good points.

Sansar NOT going to eat Second Life?

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Ciaran has an article up expressing his belief that Project Sansar® won’t eat or cannibalize Second Life™. In the first paragraph he says he isn’t sure where the idea of Sansar cannibalizing SL comes from. Really!?! Well, maybe there are too many possible sources to be sure which one it is… naw.

Val stew
Val stew

His points are rational and plausible. He may be right. There may be a majority of SL users that prefer to remain in SL after they see Sansar. I’ve been writing about the various possible scenarios. Ciaran presents his line of thinking in more detail than when I just touched on the possibility he thinks most likely.

See: Project Sansar Won’t Eat Second Life

Second Life – Firestorm Survey – Help?

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Canary Beck is now the ‘marketing manager’ for the Firestorm team. The team has taken on the mandate to improve a Second Life™ user’s experience. The marketing manager’s job is to persuade people to try Second Life. So… how can you help?

Journey
Journey

The easiest thing to do today is click over to Canary’s site and answer two questions: New survey: Would you refer a friend to Second Life?

It appears this information is part of an effort to figure out how to shape the Firestorm Gateway experience.

Sansar and the IRS!

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In working my way through the Anxieties Canary lists in her article I get to the tenth, taxes…

Like A Storm
Like A Storm

In America the IRS is the Internal Revenue Service. It is the taxing agency of the American government that has its own courts and law enforcement officers.  It also has over 1,977 forms, 90,000+ (2015) employees, and 74,000 pages or 3.7 million words of tax law that it enforces (Reference) without regard to the Constitutional principal of Due Process. 

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