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SecondLife is nothing more than the beta for their Grid product, at least from my view. I don't know if this is good or bad.

I have been in SL since 2006, and so many things have changed on the surface. I think that many who blog, or do busines in SL loose sight of the fact that the flavor of a community is not in its corporations, pundits, talking heads, detractors, cheerleaders, and visionaries, and anyone else who knows what is best/worst for us.

Like in RL, the flavor of a comunity is in its people, in SL its those who are here for the fun, for the escape, they have small businesses, small land, think small towns in whatever country you are in. To see the real flavor of SL, go to the main grid and walk around, yes walk, you will be amazed at what you see. It really hasn't changed much since i arrived a year and a half ago. Now as I say this, you have to accept a few things. Ad farms are not everywhere, just more frequent than anyone would like. Some of the neatest places in SL have traffic that is in the mid to low thousands. There is anything you can image, the amount of creativity is amazing. You might also find people who have no clue about the things the blogsphere goes nuts about. Its just a different world, and what they crave most is stability, like everyone else.

I recommend that you get out, smell the roses, get off of the private sims, and go see what is out there :)

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
-Mohandas Gandhi

Arthur Fermi
Fermi Sandbox & University
www.fermidesigns.com