Interview

The BBC have an article entitled "What happened to Second Life?" which can be read here. The article is pretty one sided and struggles to come to terms with the fact that Second Life is still thriving, despite the lack of media hype. The Beeb should really hang their head in shame, they couldn't find one independent person singing the praises of Second Life? The only positive part of the article comes from Mark Kingdon, the Beeb really should do better.

The comments section on the article finds Second Life fans, how about that? Amazing, and yet the Beeb chose to cite Adam Pasick (AKA Adam Reuters). They chose to talk of how American Apparel left after a year but fail to mention that IBM are still a strong presence. They manage to find a former user who left after three months but they couldn't find one single long term resident? Please, this is shoddy work from the Beeb.

However there are parts of the article that are interesting, the comments about mobile technology for example. Linden Lab themselves have mentioned how the rise of the laptop was problematic in their development of graphics and that issue isn't going away as people use smaller mobile devices more often.

The learning curve is a problem, many people encounter this issue, others move on. Not being able to find something to do is another issue, which is an area where group limits and the functionality of the event listings come into play. These are all issues but they are not insurmountable and many people master the learning curve, find something to do and enjoy their Second Life experience.

There is one rather humourous comment from someone who complains that you have to pay for everything in Second Life, interesting that he has that impression considering there's a raging debate about freebies!
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Paisley Beebe is the host of the highly successful "Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe" hosted by SLCN.TV, in a role reversal I arranged an email interview with Paisley so we could hear her views on Second Life and associated concepts. Paisley offered up some insightful views and put me right on a few issues, we discussed not only Paisley's show but issues about Second Life as a whole including lag, merging grids, performance fees as well as touching upon dyslexia, a RL recognition of Paisley Beebe at a museum in Melbourne, Australia and much more, we'll start with Paisley giving us a little background on Tonight Live and SLCN: { Read more }