My grandfather used to say “locks are to keep honest people honest.” I’m starting to think that maybe the current SL content permissions system is, too.
There’s a lot of discussion right now about the new up-and-coming copy-enabling viewer soon to be released onto the grid. A firsthand review of it sounds like it’s going [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Content theft, a lock, and a butter knife
Posted in Second Life on September 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Perils of Premium Membership
Posted in Second Life, Uncategorized on September 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Reading about Delinda Dryssen’s problems with her permium membership billing reminded me how fragile Second Life premium memberships are. And how hazardous. Any premium member is just one billing problem away from lockout from the grid.
Even scarier, though, is that if something happens and you’re unable to pay your premium membership for a length of [...]
Slamming Shut the Door on the “Killer App”
Posted in Live Music, Second Life on September 9, 2009 | 25 Comments »
M Linden’s now-infamous labeling of music as a “killer app” for Second Life has led to a lot of discussion and blowing of hot air. Even when some very specific and relatively easily-implementable suggestions were made during the Looking to the Future of Live Performance in Second Life session at SLCC (Really, how hard would [...]
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