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Stories from Secondlife and the Benares Estate.Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.comBlogger342125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-43684144884761254572011-07-20T22:50:00.000-07:002011-07-20T22:50:44.513-07:00Taking a break...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUX45j4_Ee8w1rPBCQM8ngsjcbu1veA3sv5GYcMf0eQjmt5G3yyDJyQSWcN3EIIjAv99Mp-lkRFviBL2J9j9ik669B13QSzrzWg9rJSlShkuYtwXoFk_aJfSDYW2QKVmWJb3RRPk_YEML/s1600/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="370px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUX45j4_Ee8w1rPBCQM8ngsjcbu1veA3sv5GYcMf0eQjmt5G3yyDJyQSWcN3EIIjAv99Mp-lkRFviBL2J9j9ik669B13QSzrzWg9rJSlShkuYtwXoFk_aJfSDYW2QKVmWJb3RRPk_YEML/s400/Capture.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div closure_uid_c972qh="162">**************************************************************************</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div closure_uid_c972qh="110">It's been two weeks... and I so miss writing this blog.</div><div closure_uid_c972qh="110">I had mentioned previously that I wasn't feeling that well.... =^..^= & it didn't get any better!</div><div closure_uid_c972qh="110">I will try to post here next week... just can't do it now.</div><div closure_uid_c972qh="110"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_c972qh="110">Benares will continue... Benares is more than coordinates on a Linden grid... it's more than me.</div><div closure_uid_c972qh="110">And so it goes</div><div closure_uid_c972qh="110">I love you all, brinda</div><div closure_uid_c972qh="110">Namaste</div><div closure_uid_c972qh="110" style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div closure_uid_c972qh="110" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-20838561795334898722011-07-06T18:18:00.000-07:002011-07-06T18:20:28.287-07:00AlexHayden and "Bliss"... the measure of a bargain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">********************************Where we come from***************************<br />
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Anyway...<br />
There are several stories about whether any news we ever get is "good news".<br />
Nearly a week ago I received an Email from AlexHayden that he was going to leave Benares. While he didn't elaborate, I did gather that a lot of real life things going on just weren't going to allow him the time to spend in-world. A measure of the kind of person Alex is is demonstrated by the way he handled all of this.<br />
He gave me nearly half a months notice... very apologetically I might add, and one of his concerns was whether we could find someone that would retain the parcel name. The South East corner of Benares East was named "Bliss" by Andor Diechter a long time ago, and residents ever since have kept the name.<br />
No worries Alex... As soon as Caro, who used to have that parcel, learned it was coming up she IMed me explaining her desire to have "Bliss" again. <br />
Done.<br />
Is there good news? I offer yes...the true measure of a bargain is if everyone ends up getting something.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUm15cs_nao6RDFri5SgQ5MQjW8l5nEwD7zPH_M_jNFeoIKWWiBO_tYlZU_XDpeAglw8b5_wjsl-IqVHWFGjidoBSDDntabjUJU46Ld_fOxhU-kKC_cCYEcPIpQlUYhPHNnsX6Hm5o9Ww/s1600/AlexHaydens+Bliss.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="277px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUm15cs_nao6RDFri5SgQ5MQjW8l5nEwD7zPH_M_jNFeoIKWWiBO_tYlZU_XDpeAglw8b5_wjsl-IqVHWFGjidoBSDDntabjUJU46Ld_fOxhU-kKC_cCYEcPIpQlUYhPHNnsX6Hm5o9Ww/s400/AlexHaydens+Bliss.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> AlexHaydens "Bliss"<br />
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AlexHayden...<br />
Alex will return someday... just another reason for me to continue my promise to be here if I can.<br />
Will I miss Alex? Absolutely. He's promised to continue his blog:<br />
<a href="http://walkingwithavatars.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: red;">http://walkingwithavatars.wordpress.com/</span></a><br />
And I will look forward to keeping in touch.<br />
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Mucaro...<br />
Caro has always remained in our Benares heart. She has been a continuing presence in mentoring those that come to Secondlife with various disabilities and has worked with the Virtual Abilities group since her earliest days. I am blessed to have her as a friend.<br />
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And so it goes<br />
My love to you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></div></div></div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-2984823097834635872011-07-03T13:11:00.000-07:002011-07-03T13:11:23.385-07:00Finally Free...But why did it happen....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This will be a very short post... today it's difficult to see the screen through the tears.<br />
Freedom... he was finally set free. <br />
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No images of where we come from today....<br />
Nothing about Secondlife today...<br />
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I guess if I could pray for anything, it's that those responsible not get the death penalty. <br />
You will have to trust me on this... <br />
Those that did this will never be able to walk the yard, they will remain in "protective custody"... their own private 'dog cage' as long as they live.<br />
I wish them a very long life.<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Rod Humble.<br />
Can he turn Secondlife around?<br />
I don't mean financially, both he and Linden Lab tell us that Secondlife is currently both financially stable as well as profitable.<br />
In these last few days I've been reading some of Inara Peys blog posts. She has brought forward a couple of interviews conducted recently with Mr. Humble.<br />
In the interest of a bit of bevity let me just drop in the URLs here:</div>Living in the Modem World...<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><a href="http://modemworld.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">http://modemworld.wordpress.com/</span></a><br />
<a href="http://modemworld.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/rodvik-talks-about-birthdays-and-second-life/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">http://modemworld.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/rodvik-talks-about-birthdays-and-second-life/</span></a><br />
<a href="http://modemworld.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/rodvik-virtual-goods-and-lls-profitability/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">http://modemworld.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/rodvik-virtual-goods-and-lls-profitability/</span></a><br />
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The "Rodvik talks about"... is a 34 minute audio interview via Massively... worth taking 34 minutes of your time.<br />
The last link is where he discusses Linden Lab profitability, and perhaps the monetary future.<br />
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When I ask the question, "Can he turn Secondlife around?" I don't mean financially... I mean culturally.<br />
In very recent times we've had a CEO that seemed to believe that there was no Secondlife culture.<br />
Not that Secondlife had no art, music, poetry, or creativity... Secondlife has all of that and yes that is culture, but that isn't "The Secondlife Culture", or it isn't for myself and a lot of others.<br />
I suspect it's difficult if not impossible to initiate a corporate identity, a corporate culture, from the bottom up.<br />
No matter how dedicated the receptionist or the mail room clerk... they can't influence those at the very top.<br />
Conversely those at the top do have that power, and those recently at the top allowed, if not encouraged the rank and file below them to view us, their customers, as just a necessary evil to be dealt with as summarily as possible.<br />
Get the money and ignore.<br />
Part of the problem was we started going away... we took our money and our culture with us.<br />
I and so many others repeatedly talk about the current state of how difficult it can be for new users.<br />
I continue to believe that leaving new people alone... dumped into and increasingly, at least verbally, hostile world is no success story. <br />
Why not return to what worked pretty darned well for six years, work on what wasn't done as well as it could have been... the basics there were working better than what we have now.<br />
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Numbers? <br />
10,000 new people are born every day in the USA, a country of 360 million people. <br />
16,000 new people everyday join Secondlife... and traditionally our retention rate is around 15%.<br />
That's not 15% that come to our world and become a part of.... that's 15% that perhaps log in a few times.<br />
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When I read what Mr. Humble says... when I listen to what he says, I sense that he "gets it".<br />
I sense that he sees the Secondlife culture and believes in it.<br />
I want to believe that he can turn those under him around. The key is to convince those employees that what we have in Secondlife is unprecedented and that instead of perhaps just focusing on the paycheck and time clock, embracing this Secondlife culture might well improve how they feel about their job and who knows, maybe someday improve their bank accounts.<br />
I'm sure that on any Friday afternoon when all someone has done all darned day is struggle through lines of code looking for a killer bug or have just spent and inordinate amount of time trying to placate and unreasonable customer the last thing they're thinking of is the Secondlife culture and what a fantastic, (and at least for me), once in a lifetime opportunity our Secondlife world can be.<br />
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I will continue to dream... and I know I'm not alone in this dream.<br />
And so it goes<br />
My love to you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-33144729797693912042011-06-28T12:25:00.000-07:002011-06-28T15:40:09.967-07:00"I, AVATAR" & why SL ain't easy. Plus Miso day... Nooblets...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*******************************Where we come from***************************<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Wow! Just noticing the date of the last post, rare that this much time goes by without these pages calling my name.<br />
More than a few things that have been going on in all my lives.<br />
Several new people have come into my virtual world this past week or so... <br />
Some came and went quickly, and I always wonder what happens to them. <br />
One has come and is one of those joys that I see infrequently. <br />
Another I spent a couple of days with... and because of either cultural differences or a clue pointed out by a friend of mine that maybe this nooblet's too stoned to be able effectively do Secondlife, I had to let that one go off on her own. Sad too, She was one that is a classic example of how new users, if they don't quickly "fit in", are subjected to less than a friendly environment. She had left a mike open while her music was playing in the background and the people at the Violet Infohub were verbally abusive to her.<br />
One day old, (Way to go Violet... running the new ones off doesn't help Secondlife)<br />
<br />
A day or so ago I received an invitation to a surprise party for my friend Miso... a celebration of Miso Day!<br />
What a great party... I wasn't able to remain long, but I was thrilled to be invited.<br />
Miso has been around virtual worlds for a very long time and we had a chat some weeks ago about her history with the earliest worlds. During our talk she had mentioned, "The Well", and while that name was somehow fuzzily familiar, I guess I filed it away as stuff barely heard... 'till yesterday.<br />
One of the first things I did after joining Seconlife was to purchase some of the books written about Secondlife and this entire thing about avatars. <br />
Enter the book, "I Avatar", by Mark Stephen Meadows.<br />
There was a reference to The Well... along with a ton of other information. <br />
I didn't find, "I Avatar" a quick read... obviously... because a reread has shown me so much information, information that I saw before but had no reference point for it.<br />
One good example can explain why Secondlife will never be easy: <br />
I don't care what viewer The Benevolent Monarchy gives us... <br />
I don't care how "basic" they make that viewer... the very thing that makes Secondlife as we see it be what we want is exactly the thing that will preclude "easy".<br />
A brief quote from "I Avatar" page 15:<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">"Please note the difference in number of users and complexity of avatar:</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">290 million for the simplest kind of control-only avatar:</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">25 million for the next simplest (the customized, yet not controlled):</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">10 million for the most complex of avatars that requires the highest technical skill (in The World of Warcraft)"</span><br />
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control only...chat rooms. FailBook?<br />
customized... Sims Online?<br />
most complex... World of Warcraft?<br />
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To that I will add Secondlife avatars. Remember, Mr. Meadows copyrighted his book in 2008 and the text seems to indicate it was compiled during 2006 and 2007... the heyday of Secondlife.<br />
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In the next day or so I will link to and interview on Massively with Rod Humble. Few in any world have greater credentials in on line gaming than Mr. Humble. He found Secondlife to be a challenge.<br />
Secondlife as we know and love it will never be easy.<br />
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This past week I really tried with the nooblet I said was a joy to mentor... I rezzed and alt using spewer 2.7.<br />
I worked with her for nearly a week every day trying to allow her to use that viewer. Last evening I had her download a TPV... now I don't log chat, I wish I did. You will have to take my word... her response on relog with a TPV? "WOW! This looks so much easier! Is there anything hidden?"<br />
[Heh heh...only the advanced menue dear, and there's a reason its not default!] =^..^=<br />
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And so it goes<br />
My love to you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Post Script...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Just looking at sitemeter and where we come from... guess it's time to start adding a fourth image and occaisionaly just a post of images only.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Again, I'm humbled that you readers come from literally all over the world.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-26523247957889811922011-06-22T18:55:00.000-07:002011-06-22T18:55:32.244-07:00FailBook, Unix, DOS, Commodore 64... connected how?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*******************************Where we come from*************************<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">OK... I know a few of my readers either don't have a TV... or if they do own one, they never watch it.<br />
I confess, living alone my TV runs constantly, now I don't actively "watch" it that often , I use it as background noise. But even as background noise I've noticed a fair amount of references to FailBook.<br />
"Friend us on Failbook" is a common plea in more than a few commercials.<br />
With more than and estimated 700 million reported users world wide, FailBook is arguably the single most successful entrepreneurial enterprise ever created, and with that popularity there's no doubt why Linden Lab would choose to attempt to ride that bandwagon in their constant push for new account signups.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"San Francisco, we have a problem".</span><br />
Secondlife doesn't have a new user sign up problem.<br />
Secondlife has a new user retention problem.<br />
Perhaps the "Boys" are attempting to follow the old Fuller Brush business model. For those of you too young to remember Fuller Brush, they ran a door to door cold call business selling various brushes for home use.<br />
The companies marketing philosophy was simple... the more doors one knocked on, the more brushes you sold. Sound familiar? The more people sign up for Secondlife, the more stay? <br />
It doesn't work that way, any idiot can use a brush... Secondlife will never be easy.<br />
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I'm starting to see a lot of articles about Failbook and how certainly the USA user base is falling.<br />
{Curious? Search: FailBook user base shrinking.}<br />
Has FailBook passed its peak? I'm reminded of how a friend of mine is still paying AOL for email services.<br />
AOL passed it's peak a long time ago....<br />
My Space passed it's peak...<br />
Unix, DOS, Commodore 64, all are gone.<br />
Buggy whips as well. <br />
<br />
FailBooks time will pass. Attempting to hook Secondlife to Failbook is short sighted in my opinion. <br />
There is a chasm between these two platforms. Where one can get tired of reading what someone has posted on their FailBook wall.... Secondlife and other virtual worlds are open ended. There is no finish line in virtual worlds... only ones creative genius.<br />
Come on guys, let's don't screw this up.<br />
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And so it goes<br />
My love to you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-36876421856520096312011-06-20T19:41:00.000-07:002011-06-21T14:54:36.845-07:00News from the Edge of Secondlife<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">********************************Where we come from*************************<br />
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Heh heh, news from the edge (remember Gary Larson the cartoonist and his "Far Side" cartoons?) That's sometimes how I feel. {See below, can't remember where I collected this... but it's often how I feel} [This isn't by Larson]<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJbs4LHwU7Bu9RQeM3xckp2hpkqiPFINaNx6ze5m3Cg9tEKo3ENonGaw628xAifOn5SJiXJVPiOC9fdvaEwbHz1zfM2rfqddR9h5hnr32gRs2C8ODiT5KZinzts6Ac3gwyx2bTduW2AJ7/s1600/crap%2521.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="344px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJbs4LHwU7Bu9RQeM3xckp2hpkqiPFINaNx6ze5m3Cg9tEKo3ENonGaw628xAifOn5SJiXJVPiOC9fdvaEwbHz1zfM2rfqddR9h5hnr32gRs2C8ODiT5KZinzts6Ac3gwyx2bTduW2AJ7/s400/crap%2521.JPG" width="330px" /></a></div>I've mentioned before that one criteria I use to measure any success at Benares is whether those that have to leave us return. That other life we all have required Otto to leave us for a few months... Vic called me a couple days ago informing me that Otto had returned and wanted a parcel. Welcome back Otto!<br />
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More news from the edge... My so loved adopted Secondlife daughter Lala graduated last week from University in Bucharest Romania. I got photos as well as a video of a speech she did in front of the students, faculty, and a lot of parents. I couldn't be anymore proud were she my blood... Lala was my very first friend here.<br />
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More...<br />
While demonstrating to someone that land parcels self limit prims, I logged in and alt I hadn't used in some time. As soon as Leee entered the world, I saw and IM from another longtime friend of four years Katina Cazalet. Katina and I haven't been face to face for years... and yet it's not uncommon for one or the other of us to send a simple, "Meow" **hugs**, sometimes months may go by between, but we still treasure that we started this journey so long ago.<br />
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I've been working quite a bit with Anna, our newest. Working with new people constantly reminds me just how much there is to learn in Secondlife.<br />
Downloaded the Firestorm viewer... I absolutely hate learning curves, that viewer does address a lot of my complaints about spewer 2 point ought oh. I guess it's something I read some years ago here though, devs develop... that's their job. Look at prince Phillip... soon as the initial "fun" was over with Secondlife he drifted away.<br />
Did attempt to log in with 1.23.5 this evening... guessing it's now gone. It's been a long time since 1.14.0.<br />
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And so it goes<br />
My love to all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Post Script June 21st:<br />
Either I totally screwed up last evening... or Google ate about half of my post.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> {And Google Chrome wanted to know why I was uninstalling that browser....pffft}</div><div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-36932749622505670822011-06-16T16:51:00.000-07:002011-06-17T20:01:14.948-07:00Are You Poor? Are you Grateful?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*************These are not representative of blog readers as I usually publish**********<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The three most dangerous words in my vocabulary...."I've Been Thinking"!<br />
Actually I do a lot of that and my latest thoughts have been concerned with gratitude.<br />
Gratitude is apparently and often forgotten feeling for the vast majority of us.<br />
<br />
First, there are no poor people in Secondlife... well, let me qualify that. There are no poor people in Secondlife that are using a computer they own and connecting to broadband with a connection they pay for.<br />
Yes, some of us are financially more affluent, but no one here is poor.<br />
No one is living in a mud hut, or yet worse... simply lying down at night to sleep where ever tiredness finds you.<br />
If you are very young, or if you skipped geography in school, a brief primer.<br />
Using metrics from the countries I'm familiar with, the average income in India is approximately $800USD a year or roughly 100 rupees a day, Bangladesh is a little bit lower. A person with and IT degree that would earn upwards of $80,000USD a year in the USA can expect around one fourth of that in Delhi.<br />
Still terribly common is the practise of maiming children so as to make them more successful as beggars. While usually done by criminals that have abducted the children, it still happens to the children of those maimed years ago.<br />
You can't beg well?... starve.<br />
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I don't bring the above numbers up to denigrate in anyway the countries I mentioned... while I've not visited Bangladesh, I have gone to India and I tell any that will listen that I love India and the people.<br />
India was a life changing experience for me.<br />
I do mention those figures to demonstrate how ungrateful so many of us in virtual worlds can be, myself included.<br />
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I believe that the vast majority of the people in Secondlife never read the forums... they never read what we write in these blogs... they go on, happily or not... oblivious to all we whine and moan about.<br />
Those are the ones that come to Secondlife to have fun, to enjoy themselves, to forget the kids, cars, grass that needs mowing, the boss at work that's and ass. That's how I was my first year and a half or so.<br />
No politics.<br />
Now there are a few of us that do invest a lot of time, creative skills, as well as money in virtual worlds.<br />
Why? Why does someone like myself pay The Benevolent Monarchy nearly $6,000 USD a year?<br />
I started wondering just how many people actually make any money in Secondlife, since a lot of the constant rant about what the "boys" do to our experience seems often to be linked to whether we are free to do as we please, be that crossing sims un impeded, using group chat successfuly, being able to find our content in search, or being upstaged via off world content sales ran by the company.<br />
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My first call was to Crap Mariner, I appreciate his involvement in our world and I know first hand how it is to run a small estate. I did find that CMs experience is much like mine... more about that in a minute.<br />
My next call was to Tateru Nino, She always has a good view of most Secondlife metrics.<br />
My question to her was did she have any information on how many people in Secondlife actually made enough money to cover their time. I was thinking 40 hours a week (which I certainly come close to) and an income of $45,000USD from either content sales or land sales. That number is achievable, go back and look at the furor over the 'Red Zone' stuff... that guy make a killing!<br />
With her permission here's the salient part of her email response:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">"The closest I can come to a figure is looking at the last positive monthly Linden flow data, which showed about 220 users or so with a positive flow of over 5000 USD.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">A quick guess for how many are making 45K or over would then be "under 200". A slightly less quick guess would be "under 50". But I can't really back that up... it could be "under 5" for all I know."</span><br />
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For me... and I think for CM... we come in world, we pay tier... {most all of that tier is covered by our estate residents} and we do it because it's fun. It is a way to meet people we wouldn't otherwise meet, a way to establish friendships all over the world.<br />
I've mentioned before that most of my computer basics were taught to me by Twinkle Villota.<br />
Twinkle is from Bangladesh.<br />
Poly is from the middle part of the USA... she took over where Twinkle left off.<br />
Without her skills I would never have had the skills to run and estate.<br />
I have friends from places in the world I will never be able to visit and that, to me is priceless.<br />
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Am I thrilled with some of what The Benevolent Monarchy does? NO!<br />
Am I going to leave? NO! I plan on being here as long as the servers are on.<br />
Do I need to perhaps change my attitude? YES!<br />
You see, Secondlife has also been a life changing experience.<br />
I need to remember to live in the now, to grateful that I am not poor and never was.<br />
I need to learn to accept the gift that each of you gives me... remember, my chances of meeting anyone of you are around six billion to one.<br />
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And so it goes<br />
I love you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-52651865378474772412011-06-13T17:37:00.000-07:002011-06-13T22:26:12.506-07:00It's the People... It's the Community... It's about us<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">******************************Where we come from*****************************<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;">Secondlife can be a very lonely place, I know it was for me during those first few weeks. But while I found it lonely, that had more to do with me than with the Secondlife community. Secondlife was just exploding resident wise in those early days of 2007, a busy day in May of that year was 28,000 on line.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Things seem to be much different now, a recent post of mine mentioned my perceived view that there is a definite change in the newer people joining our world today. Newer people now seem to have a "what's in it for me" attitude. Maybe I'm viewing the past with rose colored glasses... but I don't think so. I'm hearing the same sentiment from others as well.</div><div style="text-align: left;">A few days ago I saw someone just a few days old standing off to one side at an Infohub. After chatting for a few minutes I asked if she would be interested in a tier free furnished house on a small private Isle.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Her response was guarded to say the least, as in "What's the catch?"</div><div style="text-align: left;">No catch, I sent her the link to kains offer of a couple days earlier... an hour or so later... after seeing the house and taking a tour of our estate, she was amazed. </div><div style="text-align: left;">What she found was what I experienced four years ago.</div><div style="text-align: left;">What she found was the kind of thing Pituca Fairchang has written about.</div><div style="text-align: left;">The things that Effulgent Brown told me about when Secondlife was more like high school.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I can name at least six people that claim the reason they are still active in Secondlife after 2/3/4 years is because of how they were treated when they were minutes old... I believe them... I was there.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I have to believe the reverse is also true... log a nooblet into a place where they are teased, jeered at, or otherwise harassed... I'm betting they quickly find that red "X" in the upper right screen corner.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I've mentioned before that I think Mr. Humble would learn a lot about "The New User Experience by e-mailing those that log out quickly.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">There is another way to have what would be, for me, a lonely Secondlife experience... </div><div style="text-align: left;">I have met a person that seems to have alienated virtually everyone they have contact with. They never appear to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I think about those six people I mentioned... if their earliest exposures here in Secondlife were disagreeable... would they have wanted to stay?</div><div style="text-align: left;">For me... Secondlife is about people... it's about community... it's about us.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And so it goes</div><div style="text-align: left;">My love to you all, brinda</div><div style="text-align: left;">Namaste</div><div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-31260461568723442032011-06-09T16:45:00.000-07:002011-06-14T16:54:21.787-07:00Why Are New People Harassed?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">******************************Where we come from**************************<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Today in our virtual world there are a couple things that bother me... things that degrade our cumulative experience of Secondlife.<br />
Here's the deal, visit almost any of the so called Welcome Areas or the Infohubs. You don't have to go as a new account, just drop in, walk to one side, set your preferences so you hear voice from camera position, and listen. Often you will hear a steady stream of negative and or demeaning comments both to and about various new accounts. <br />
Why? Am I looking back a couple years with rose colored glasses? Was it always this way everywhere? <br />
I don't believe it was, yes we have had a couple of WA's with a bad reputation, but today the verbal teasing and or harassment seems pervasive.<br />
I'm wondering if I've hit on a reason... well a couple reasons.<br />
{If you're super happy with "display names" and "resident" as a last name stop reading here.}<br />
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AOL chat room type names.... ie: 123coolguy... Sweetbuns16.<br />
There have been studies done in California some years ago that indicated that people tended to drive much more courteously when their car license plate was their name. Now I'm not and advocate of real life names in virtual worlds but many of us that came long before the "resident" names really identify with our names, brinda Allen IS ME.<br />
This last year or so has seen a very big difference in the way new people tend to act... do these people talk to and about the newer people because that's the way they were treated?<br />
Are we producing a resident population where only the "thick skinned" rule... until they're bored?<br />
In this latest push to appeal to the FailBook/Farmville crowd are we making Secondlife a "throw away" passing faze?<br />
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A solution? Sure, first return to the old legacy names. In my case Brenda was't available... lower case "i" was fine. Next... hire one Linden who's job it is to manage an Official Mentor program. We don't need 1600 Mentors, (I think Doc <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Gascoigne<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;"> </span>t</span></span>old me that was the approximate number), a couple hundred to start with should be able to randomly cover the places where our resident idiots gather to prey on nooblets.<br />
Monitor those Mentors... log the times they actually mentor (no tag hunters). A good reason for Lindens to actually come in world... if wearing a Linden tag is a problem? Don't.<br />
Figure out a way to document harassment in voice. <br />
How about write a line or two of code that tracks new accounts and if those accounts don't return... if they log out after just a few mins or a couple days, send them and e mail asking about their experience.<br />
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I believe Secondlife can return to the community it used to be...<br />
Yes, it's rather geeky.<br />
No, it will never be easy.<br />
But if we make new people feel we care... I think it will grow.<br />
<br />
And so it goes<br />
My love to all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-1273108619595876482011-06-08T16:54:00.000-07:002011-06-08T20:40:18.800-07:00What is the cost of love?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Ive settled down a bit since my post of yesterday, not much, but today I'm a bit more rational.<br />
A young man ended up paying the ultimate price for his inability to deal successfully with his personal identity issues (never mind his attempting to deal with the betrayal he must have felt from the way his father treated him) <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/07/sissy.boy.experiment/index.html?iref=NS1">http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/07/sissy.boy.experiment/index.html?iref=NS1</a>.<br />
Some of his story is mine as well... I too learned early on to "just go numb"... they beat you, you don't cry- you go silent. It's too late for sympathy for that young man, and I'm not looking for sympathy... what I do want is to bring something to the table of public discourse.<br />
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I've sat here for several moments trying to find a way to link this terrible story to virtual worlds... it's not possible for me. Nothing I could say would do anything but diminish the absolute horror that was perpetrated those many years ago. In real life I can tell you that there can be a very real large price we all pay when children are treated with a lack of love and understanding. In my case the tax payer and society at large paid a very large monetary price. My behaviours over thirty plus years cost in excess of one million US dollars in court costs and resources spent in incarceration, never mind the cost to society in general with disruption.<br />
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My only link from this post to virtual worlds I guess is this.... <br />
People I deal with everyday love me...<br />
People see me as kind and loving, willing to give...<br />
I will never live long enough to repay the debt that my behavior created... but if I don't start now, then when?<br />
<br />
And so it goes<br />
I do love you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-49240986820941459692011-06-07T15:11:00.000-07:002011-06-07T15:11:41.152-07:00Rage... not anger, rage.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CRzs_4kHzdw?rel=0" width="425"></iframe><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">There are times when the appropriate words fail me.<br />
I sit here so angry... so full of rage at not only the "researcher", or the "father", or even a society that could conceivably condone these situations.<br />
The silence will be deafening, the righteous will attend the religious service of their choice, the bigots will be smug, and the band will play on.<br />
The time that my Buddhist compassion should calm me isn't happening.<br />
Sadly, nothing will ever happen... to anyone.... except the ones that are experiencing this same thing today.<br />
If you have any compassion in your heart, please take a moment to read this...<br />
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/07/sissy.boy.experiment/index.html?iref=NS1">http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/07/sissy.boy.experiment/index.html?iref=NS1</a><br />
And wonder at the thirty years of pain this kid endured, you see the pain didn't stop when he left home,<br />
<br />
Tomorrow I will tell you a story.<br />
A personal story.<br />
A story of those that "survive", and the cost to the rest of you.<br />
Not just a cost that a dim memory will cover, or a drink will dim.<br />
A cost in money.<br />
<br />
And so it goes<br />
While I am trying, I can't say I love all today.<br />
Brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><br />
</div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-10220076751819228652011-06-06T22:23:00.000-07:002011-06-06T22:23:08.016-07:00People like kain Canare are why I stay...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*********************************Where we come from***************************<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Over the years I've asked this question often of people in Secondlife, "What keeps you here"?<br />
I don't have the metric but there still must be tens of thousands of us four years or older.<br />
What is it we find that keeps this experience interesting enough that we log in thousands of times?<br />
Commonly the answer I get is, "It's the people". <br />
Yes, there are those that spend and inordinate amount of time creating content, but the overwhelming answer is, "It's the people". I know it is for me.<br />
Lately I, and some of my blogger friends, have commented that those of us that bitch and complain about some of the perceived failures of The Benevolent Monarchy aren't necessarily just doom sayers and/or recalcitrant about change, we truly want to see Secondlife grow and flourish. Otherwise, that red "X" at top right ends any problem.<br />
<br />
Some of the readers of this blog know that since the earliest days of our home, Benares, I have kept a guest house for new people. I've never forgotten my early days of flying to the top of tall buildings to try and dress myself. I believe that everyone needs a place they feel they are "part of", a place they feel they belong, and so the Benares guest house.<br />
<br />
About seven months ago kain came to Benares... and as with all new people she was offered a stay in that house. <br />
"Stay as long as you need".<br />
I have never in over three years had anyone take advantage of that, and kain was no different. She ended up getting a small parcel, built her own house, and over these last months furnished it with her own original sculpted creations.<br />
Kain sent me and IM yesterday... She wanted to offer her furnished house tier free as a place for another new person to receive the same care and love she had when she was new.<br />
My suggestion was that she offer it free for ninety days to anyone with less than say...45 days.<br />
So that's the deal... images below... tier free, ninety days.<br />
<br />
Kain and people like her are why I continue to invest time and treasure in Secondlife.<br />
Kain Canare... she has made Secondlife the place I wanted to see so many days ago.<br />
She is doing for others as Prissielou Flora did for me.<br />
<br />
And so it goes<br />
I love you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
नमस्ते<br />
<br />
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</div><div></div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-87577866465722647872011-06-05T20:45:00.000-07:002011-06-06T18:59:54.256-07:00What's Live Music? or who cares?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">********************************Where we come from***************************<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Funny how a day or so goes by with nothing I want to chat about... then I suddenly find topics calling my name.<br />
This post won't take long... it concerns a "subject" that's just worn out.<br />
The subject? LIVE MUSIC in Secondlife... or what is live music?<br />
I saw a tweet today from a self appointed music critic/aficionado that came to Secondlife the month after I did (co signed by a very smart person that came to Secondlife six months before I did).<br />
Their on going shtick is that if everything you hear on a stream at a music venue isn't being performed live, "then it's not live" music. To me that says that every venue that only has only one instrument playing (or rarely a group) is the sole criteria for "live".<br />
One of my residents is a professional vocalist that performs with a group of great musicians in Portland Oregon. Now <a href="http://www.fezfatale.com/home.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;">FezFatale</span></a> does occasionally do a live stream in world, and my resident, Porter Paquot, does occasionally play piano during her shows here, but most of her shows are sung to recorded music. That's "live"... live as in listen to the stage chatter during her performances, she has a degree in performance art if I remember right.<br />
The bottom line? <br />
People go to music venues for entertainment. If they aren't entertained they won't pay (tip), if they don't pay the venue will close for lack of revenue, it's totally self limiting.<br />
Over these last few years I have heard this subject come up every few months... at least one musician has told me that he just lets this drivel go in one ear and out the other.<br />
I offer that if someone doesn't like a particular venue or performer... don't tip, TP away, remind yourself to not return..... and please don't bother to tell us that the music wasn't "live".<br />
Be direct enough to call the show out publicly if you choose, but perhaps save the screen space as far as repeating that same tired stuff about, "it wasn't live". <br />
Who cares if it is or isn't if people enjoy it.<br />
<br />
And so it goes<br />
My love to you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><br />
</div> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bkt8Dwzl6Sg?rel=0" width="425"></iframe></div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-83814305731645137472011-06-02T10:04:00.000-07:002011-06-02T10:10:34.711-07:00Miso & Wizzy.... NPIRL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">********************************Where we come from**************************<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">After one has been in Secondlife for awhile and settled in we come across the letters NPIRL, Not Possible in Real Life. Obviously much of what goes on in Secondlife isn't possible in real life, for instance flying or walking underwater, but our immediate thoughts usually end up going to the fantastic content that so many of our Secondlife residents create. For myself there is so much more to all this.<br />
Virtual worlds allow a tremendous amount of personal freedom. Yes, we have the role play that perhaps few would engage in in "real life", but there are other situations we will find ourselves in as well.<br />
In April, 2008, at age 66 I attended my very first birthday party... it was held in Secondlife.<br />
As a measure of the selflessness of some in Secondlife... it was a couple weeks later that I discovered that one of the residents that helped put on the party had a birthday on that same day.... She hadn't said anything because she said she wanted that day to be mine alone.<br />
<br />
NPIRL<br />
There is a rezz day party scheduled for this evening in Secondlife. <span style="color: #cc0000;">{For time & place see yesterdays post}</span><br />
While I don't know if Wizzy has ever had a public celebration of her start here in Secondlife (it's her fourth year), I do know our friend Miso hasn't, and that's after 25 years on the Internet and being a member of the earliest virtual worlds.<br />
We get to celebrate Misos three years here... we get to celebrate Wizards four years.<br />
Happy rezz day to both of those I consider my friends... people I would never have met were it not for this virtual world we call Secondlife. You see, this is truly Not Possible in Real Life.<br />
<br />
And so it goes<br />
My love to you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-63478799532751557332011-05-31T11:10:00.000-07:002011-05-31T11:10:44.744-07:00Rezz Party for Miso & Wizzy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: x-large;">NO pictures... NO whining...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Just this... Thursday there will be a rezz party for Miso & Wizzy at The Mill a live music venue.</span><br />
<a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blue%20Rain/86/238/22/?title=The%20Mill">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blue%20Rain/86/238/22/?title=The%20Mill</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I hope all can come... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thursday June 2nd, 2011</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">5PM till 7PM SLT</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Live Music with Porter Paquot...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Blues, Funk, Soul, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">plus a DJ</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hope to see all of you there, Miso and Wizzy are a big part of Secondlife for many of us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">brinda</span></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-76377301524041210262011-05-28T23:03:00.000-07:002011-05-28T23:05:18.056-07:00Reflections of a time past...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">******************************Where we come from******************************<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This weekend is Memorial Day in the USA, the weekend my country honours all those military service men and women that have truly given that *last full measure* their lives, in the service of this country, and perhaps your country as well in some cases.<br />
I am getting older. <br />
For many years this weekend was a time to party, to enjoy the company of friends and often family. <br />
Not so this year, for what ever reason today has been a day of melancholy and reflection.<br />
My physical health is good, and while all my family in that world where I breathe is gone, I am blessed with so many that love me in these virtual worlds.<br />
Something is just different this year.<br />
The USA is a country of emigrants... all of us, unless you are a member of those native American Indian groups. While <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ellis Island</span></a> off of New York city is where most of the early immigrants arrived, the<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)"><span style="color: #cc0000;">potato Famine</span></a> in Ireland found many of the Irish entering the USA via the South.<br />
One of my earliest memories is listening to the music my grand parents loved.<br />
Below please find one of their favorites, {mine too}, as well as one that I have come to love.<br />
Eva Cassidy, gone at 33.<br />
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I know next week will be different... time makes everything different.<br />
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And so it goes<br />
I love you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Humans receive some very large amount of information visually, some estimates are 90%. But what we see is always colored by our perceptions and prejudices.<br />
Words have power.<br />
My thanks to Scotsman Fenn MacMoragh... {<span style="color: #990000;">@ Fenn_ MacMoragh on Twitter</span>} self described, <span style="color: #38761d;">"Crafter of fine prims with a Celtic flair. Aficionado of Whiskey, cigars and Albannach, wearer of kilts."</span> for the below link. I went to tears when I first saw it, and I continue to think about this video.<br />
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And so it goes,<br />
My love to you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-28153843946167333562011-05-25T14:53:00.000-07:002011-05-25T14:53:11.833-07:00The gift...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*******************************Where we come from*****************************<br />
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Monday afternoon I sat down with my very first friend in Secondlife, four years ago I met Lala at the Morris welcome area, now before you all gasp, "What!", in those days both Secondlife and the welcome areas were a lot more friendly than either are now. A busy day then would see perhaps 28,000 on line and while Secondlife by then had grown beyond it's early days of *everyone knowing everyone else*, there was still a sense of community.<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It didn't take long before Lala *adopted* me as her Secondlife Mom and for us to establish a deep friendship that continues to this day.<br />
Lala was in her last year of high school when we met... in a few weeks she will graduate from University and is looking forward to a post graduate degree.<br />
You see, I never cease to be amazed at the gifts I receive from a chance encounter with and advertisement I saw for this thing called Secondlife so many days ago.<br />
In a life lived long ago I made some very selfish choices, and because of those choices I missed watching my own daughter grow up. Secondlife has allowed me a another chance to watch a young woman grow into adulthood.... that for me is a priceless gift.<br />
And so it goes<br />
I love you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-55283463402826582052011-05-22T12:40:00.000-07:002011-05-22T12:42:24.636-07:00Why Stay In Virtual Worlds?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">******************************Where we come from****************************<br />
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Why come to virtual worlds?<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Why remain in virtual worlds?<br />
If there is a fascination with virtual worlds, <br />
and for me that fascination is still so alive, how do we keep that fascination alive?<br />
Is there an "attention span" concerning these worlds?<br />
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Virtual worlds like Secondlife are open ended creatively... I don't believe that one can ever reach and end.<br />
That thought brings up, is there an attention span?<br />
I'm certain that the attention span that keeps someone constantly fascinated, interested, and creative would depend a lot on the activity that one engages in. When I meet those in Secondlife that have remained well over two years, and that time frame isn't cast in stone, I don't find those avatars spending years totally involved in shopping, pixel sex, standing in welcome areas chatting, or even griefing. I do find them creating content, volunteering in educational situations, engaging in commerce, or designing something totally new. In a word being pioneers. I have friends in virtual worlds today that have been involved in all this for over twenty-five years.<br />
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Recently I have seen some of my friends drifting away from Secondlife, it's not uncommon to see those around two years here lose the passion that grabbed us at first sight of this world. Look around at the next gathering you see and inspect rezz dates, vast numbers of new people, a few between one and two, and after that the numbers diminish rapidly.<br />
Two of my dear friends have recently made decisions about perhaps leaving Secondlife, one because of real life situations. The other because, I suppose for them, the magic has gone.<br />
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A part of what makes me dream this dream that I never want to end is that I get to support this family, this community, and I get to perhaps help these two friends reconcile whatever choice they make.<br />
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I'm sitting here suddenly torn between two opposing thoughts. <br />
First is that if my happiness depends on what another does or says I will be disappointed.<br />
The second thought is that as I told a couple of my dear friends this morning, the people of Secondlife have become my family. I could never possibly repay those close to me for what they have given me.<br />
They have given me love.<br />
Some have given me an education.<br />
And perhaps the greatest gift that my Benares family has given me is purpose, a passion, a reason to remain here and continue to provide a place for a community to thrive.<br />
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And so it goes<br />
My love to you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-9934004447527196322011-05-19T15:38:00.000-07:002011-05-20T17:27:26.406-07:00Geeks, Hats, Aspergers, Emotions, & yay! Maroon5!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*******************************Where we come from************************<br />
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Every now and then I figure out something on my own, and get that sense of accomplishment we all love.<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In this case it was something as simply deleting all browsing history, cookies, saved passwords, form data, etc so that blogger would load. Guess I still fail the geek test 'cause that's likely stuff one's supposed to learn in PC 101 =^..^=<br />
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Since I've been trying to wear several hats lately, and of course ending up getting little actually finished, it was a surprise to me to see where some of the readers of this rag come from. The three above are new visitors and I'm always humbled to think anyone would find anything I have to say entertaining, never mind important.<br />
Nearly a year ago a friend, (whose since cut my card), found it distasteful that their town was imaged.<br />
The overwhelming response I got regarding the "<span style="color: #38761d;">Where we come from</span>" images when I asked was positive and so they will continue.<br />
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Some of my time this past week has been used in attempting to talk a friend into doing some of those things that allow many of us a healthy emotional relationship with both other people in virtual worlds and certainly for me, allowing the magic to continue here.<br />
A dear friend of mine, Mucaro (Caro), has been involved in volunteering a lot of her time working with many that come to virtual worlds with special needs. Most of us tend to think of "special needs" as those using wheelchairs, or being physically challenged, and there certainly are that contingent here.<br />
But that's not all... I know a person that's very successful in Secondlife as a land owner who is deaf, others are mute. One of the challenges people face in that other life we live in is one that after I was here in Secondlife for a few years, I found that I had had trouble with both as a child and as a young adult, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Aspergers Syndrome</span></a>.<br />
I was fortunate that apparently I am one of the estimated twenty percent that grow out of Aspergers.<br />
Without naming names I can tell you that there are two people I personally know of that are incredibly successful in virtual worlds who have Aspergers. As you can see via the above link, Asbergers people don't seem to "get" those unspoken social clues that contribute to how we deal with social situations.<br />
Of course that lack of silent social interaction is what can make interpersonal relationships a living hell here in these virtual worlds.<br />
Over and over I try to explain to people that emotions run extremely intense in virtual worlds and since no matter how close one feels with another... unless you can walk out of your real life house and actually look another in the eye... it's all a terrible gamble.<br />
As far as my friend goes, all I can do is to try and show them how I found a place here, a place where I fit it, a place mentally where I feel I am contributing.<br />
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Below Maroon5, first because of the catchy beat. Then because the song can be taken as how many of us feel about The Benevolent Monarchy and how they seem to be sleeping with another in our bed!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rGQANZ1blbc" width="640"></iframe><br />
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And so it goes<br />
I love you all and I will try, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-42230452183117334532011-05-14T22:30:00.000-07:002011-05-14T22:30:31.827-07:00Blogs and My Education...a beginning only.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*******************************Where we come from************************<br />
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Thorough out my life I have been incredibly fortunate. There is and old Jewish curse that goes something like, "May you live and interesting life".... I certainly have!<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">All in all perhaps the single most interesting adventure I have ever taken has been this one of these last four plus years. When I found the advertisement for Secondlife in May 2007 I never dreamed how this experience would change my life. I spent my first couple of years learning a little bit about computers, virtual worlds, and reading the various blogs written by some that were so much better versed in the Internet experience. Almost two years ago I decided that I wanted to speak to a larger audience than that of my residents one at a time.... or my cat. <br />
This blog was my solution. <br />
I found there were as many blogs as there were people, and that there were a lot of different styles of writing. I promised myself that I would try very hard to see that what I wrote wouldn't troll or belittle anyone.<br />
As time has gone by I have met some extremely bright people, one of which sat down with me recently and spent nearly and hour explaining some of the many nuances of writing a blog and why some bloggers write and do some of the things they do.<br />
Ever hear or see the term SEO, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Search Engine Optimization</span></a>?<br />
Ever wonder why you can find mini posts that highlight a URL in HTML even though the mini post is perhaps only an image with a one line caption?<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">How about HTML links to a blog site that is currently under going tremendous controversy? </div><div style="text-align: left;">All of these are common ways to increase the traffic to a blog...SEO.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I've mentioned controversy, a blog that sees a lot of controversy can boost its ranking and therefore the amount of money generated by its advertisers.</div><div style="text-align: left;">As far as controversy goes, I'm OK with that, often we will have strong opinions and it would be foolish to expect us to believe the same things.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I do get uncomfortable when the controversy turns into verbal bullying.</div><div style="text-align: left;">It happens.</div><div style="text-align: left;">A common form of attack seems to be accusing some one of disguising their gender and it always seems to be an accusation of someone really being a man while pretending to be a woman.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Perhaps this is one of those rare times when the gender discrimination is against males, I have yet to see a female accused of being male.</div><div style="text-align: left;">{The above reminds me of the courtroom tactic of asking someone if they still beat their wife.}</div><div style="text-align: left;">We will usually find a collection of fanboyz and girls willing to accept any slur no matter how ridiculous, they remind me of lynch mobs unable to either think for themselves or to at least hold judgement in abeyance until the facts are clear.</div><div style="text-align: left;">What's that line... don't confuse me with facts, my mind's made up?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">What to do if verbally attacked? </div><div style="text-align: left;">Recently I made a comment that no response is a response, but it is difficult to not want to defend ones self no matter how ridiculous the statements.<br />
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Any world is much better served with out hate and discontent... even virtual ones.<br />
And so it goes<br />
My love to you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-36174852511214615412011-05-14T09:39:00.000-07:002011-05-14T09:39:46.718-07:00Hold my place in line... Be right Back! =^..^=<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">What with some other life stuff going on, plus Blogger being borked for a couple days, I seems as though I've totally let this blog go... not true! I promise to do a real post this evening. I did rough one out on real paper graveyard shift early early Friday.<br />
Gonna chat about stuff my friend explained to me about "gaming" the SEO..(look it up heh heh) and other things that could be construed as "verbal bullying".<br />
And so it goes for early today<br />
My love to all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-50790656886090905892011-05-09T23:01:00.000-07:002011-05-10T09:33:41.469-07:00Silence can be a response... Help wanted... & Benares @ Inworldz<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*******************************Where we come from**************************<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It's rare that I take much time off from this blog, not because I feel bad that those few readers might "miss" this, {contrary to some opinions my ego isn't that big}. It's because this is often where I come to set my thoughts down in print and take a look at where I seem to be mentally and emotionally.<br />
Several things have been going on in both the virtual world... as well as my life in that world where I sleep.<br />
The real life things are really nothing new... life goes on, sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.<br />
The virtual world where I spend so much time has also had me doing a lot of thinking.<br />
I continue to believe that nothing good comes from posting hate and discontent. Lately I have seen some of my friends denigrated by those posting innuendos and allegations that first seem patently false, and if nothing else totally non factual {lies?}. <br />
Now certainly one "answer" to stuff like that is to just not respond. Silence is a response, silence in effect says that what has been said isn't worth responding to.<br />
So far, I seem to have flown under all radars.... but I suspect that if I were to be attacked, my actions would be a lot closer to what my friend Immy does than to what I preach. Immy will not tolerate lies silently.<br />
Silence may well not be the answer... even though I have yet to see the recent attacker ever ever admit that something isn't their business or that they were wrong. Just sayin'.<br />
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I do try to read several of the blogs written concerning Secondlife and specifically those about The Benevolent Monarchy.<br />
Lately I see there have been billing issues. One of my oldest friends had billing issues I posted about back in <a href="http://brinda-benares.blogspot.com/2011/04/positive-people-and-how-to-drive-them.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;">early April</span></a> . I think I just saw something about Mr. Humble, the CEO, having to step in before a popular group abandoned their sims and moved on. That says a lot about the infrastructure of the company... rest assured if I were Mr. Humble those responsible would be reading help wanted ads tomorrow.<br />
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The group that had those recent issues has already done something I started last week.<br />
My friend Ling and I now own a full region in Inworldz.<br />
I have said before that my intentions are to remain in Secondlife for as long as the servers are on, and I promised in January my commitment to remain another year minimum. But I am going to be certain that those people that mean so much to me will have a place to go just in case. <br />
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</div>Before I close this for this evening there is something else I want to say.<br />
When I bring newer people into Inworldz it becomes easier to see that Secondlife has made it easier to get started today. So much of what we had to do where our avatars are concerned four years ago is pretty much done for new people today. Today's default avatars are better than we could buy then, and so I end up explaining things I see as simple {how to wear a bald to remove texture hair for instance}. The Secondlife platform is great, no doubt about it, but the friendliness one finds in these new worlds reminds me of those stories from Secondlifes earliest days, for that I'm both willing to deal with things being a little primitive at times, and proud to be in on the ground floor this time.<br />
And so it goes<br />
I love you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932965894595294709.post-84074960525931289792011-05-05T02:43:00.000-07:002011-05-09T10:24:08.953-07:00Mette Lindberg likely isn't an avatar... but cute, yes.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*******************************Where we come from***************************<br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">OK, I suspect almost all of us in the USA have seen the latest Heineken's beer commercial, "The Entrance". <br />
I just had to look up the details of the truly catchy song and find out who the bubbly little blonde woman was.<br />
She's<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asteroids_Galaxy_Tour"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mette Lindberg</span></a> a Danish singer with the group <span style="color: #660000;">The Asteroid Galaxy Tour</span>. <br />
No, she won't likely sing in the New York Metropolitan Opera, but the song just keeps running through my head. She, and the song are just darned cute. Good for them!</div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CdncFjqKcxg" width="640"></iframe></div><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">I wished I lived in the golden age </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Giving it up on the broadway stage </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Hang with the rats and smoke cigars </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Just have a break with Frank and count the stars </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Dressed to the nines, we've had too much </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Shiny jewels, casino cash </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Tapping feet, wanna take the lead </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">A trip back in time is all I need</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Oh!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Sing it out loud gonna get back honey </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Sing it out loud get away with me </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Sing it out loud on a trip back honey </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Sing it out loud and let yourself free</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Whoo </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I'm on my way, gonna make it big </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Gonna make these songs for the chicks to dig </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">It's really hot and a little bit sour </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">We're getting your strength to the maximum power</span> <br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Flying away from reality </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Whatever-ever happened to gravity? </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">I see it clear, a shooting star </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">And I'm really gonna sing it like da-da-da </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Sing it out loud gonna get back honey </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Sing it out loud get away with me </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Sing it out loud on a trip back honey </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Sing it out loud and let yourself free</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: black;">******************************************************************************</span></span><br />
Just fun today!<br />
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And so it goes<br />
Love to you all, brinda<br />
Namaste<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">नमस्ते</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</span></div></div>Brindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722102008502506117noreply@blogger.com0