I'm not on the administrative end, but apparently the CEO left, came back,
then left again. Education and other discounts were eliminated and the
rental doubled. The prices of land parcels have fallen and a lot of
artists have moved to OpenSim (an open source version of SL). The rental
for the Odyssey island parcel is $295/monthly which is prohibitive.
I'm not sure what the overall fiscal plan of Linden Labs (who run SL) is
at the moment; I think Patrick Lichty might know.
All of this is coupled with the CEO (of a British telecom co. if I
remember correctly) suddenly withdrawing his support of Od and east of Od.
My feeling is that he's tired of Second Life, and hasn't liked the recent
work - 'branding' (not my term) - that's been on his parcels. It's always
been problematic. In any case, unless something new emerges on the
horizon, both he and the parcels are gone.
- Alan
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Simon Biggs wrote:
Hi Alan
What's up in SL then? Is island real estate going through the roof? Who is
driving that - Linden or users? If bond traders and hedgers determine the
real economy who is determining the SL economy?
Best
Simon
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From: Alan Sondheim <[email protected]>
Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:56:47 -0500 (EST)
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Long Live the Web.
It parallels development and enclaving in general; once a land parcel is
desecrated with McMansions, the eco-system and attendant species are gone
forever. You can see the change on the street in NY - more and more
fantastically expensive cars, more and more homeless. Mike Davis predicted
it all. Fox News is another example in an odd way; they dominate through
propaganda passing as news, and now that they're making substantial
inroads into Congress, net neutrality, which might be their last enemy, is
going to go under the knife again. And once net neutrality disappears
(don't forget that corporations are now 'freed' to give what they want,
without accountability, to political campaigns here), it won't return.
I keep thinking backing to Fidonet and BBS; these kinds of private
networks might become deeply relevant again.
Meanwhile Second Life is going through its own parallel convulsions, with
education discounts etc. disappear and rental going sky-high. Odyssey and
East of Odyssey - where I've worked for years - are close to disappearing.
- Alan
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Simon Biggs wrote:
They sought to do the same thing in the US earlier this year, with a senate
(Republican) sponsored attempt to abolish net neutrality. Happily Obama
affirmed the sustained legal status of NN. Hopefully that will remain the
case for some more years - but vested interests will try again. The internet
is becoming and will soon be the key information and communications
technology for all media. Those companies that currently dominate the old
media will seek to dominate the new. Those wars are yet to be fought and
they will be bitter. Looks like in the UK the old media hegemony has been
allowed dominance without a fight. Given the current government perhaps the
only way to stop this would be pan-EU legislation. Contact your MEP.
Best
Simon
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http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
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Creative Interdisciplinary Research in CoLlaborative Environments
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Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice
http://www.elmcip.net/
Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts
From: dave miller <[email protected]>
Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:53:29 +0000
To: <[email protected]>, NetBehaviour for networked distributed
creativity <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Long Live the Web.
well said ruth
There are many parties who want to make money out of the internet -
through walled gardens, highway tolls etc, and I agree with simon that
this is probably the Murdoch agenda, back to a broadcast/ propaganda
model. I think the way they want it is for access to the big money
sites (facebook, ebay, bbc, murdoch sites) to be fast, and to the rest
of the web slow (like 56k modem speed). Eventually they hope we'll all
give up viewing and publishing to the small independent web sites as
they'll be too slow and practically unusable.
The Ed Vaizey plan is really really scary, and is a clear example of
government acting against the interests and needs of the people.
Maybe there are agendas beyond money here as well, that information is
power, and the Internet as communication revolution, parallels with
the church smashing up the printing presses in the middle ages.
Once they've ruined this one, we can always start another Internet -
or can we? Would this be possible - as we have to depend on existing
telecommunications networks?
dave
On 20 November 2010 14:43, Ruth Catlow <[email protected]> wrote:
Ahem!
I undermined my own vent with my illiteracy.
I'm told it's "MYOPIC"
still the steam, streams from my ears.
:
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Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Long Live the Web.
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:36:22 +0000
!!!!!!!DUMB!!!!SELFISH!!!!DESTRUCTIVE!!!!ARROGANT!!!!MIOPIC!!!!!COMPLACENT!
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!BASTARDS!!!!!!
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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:14:23 +0000
Berners-Lee would then appreciate (not) the UK government's announcement it
will permit ISPs and other gatekeepers to abandon net neutrality and give
premium providers (not users) improved bandwidth. That is the beginning of
a
shift in the web, from a many to many to a few to the many model.
Effectively broadcast. Sky will love them - and I'm sure this is part of
the
price Murdoch has demanded of the current government to support them so
vigorously.
Best
Simon
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Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice
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Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts
From: marc garrett <[email protected]>
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<[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:02:31 +0000
To: netBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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Subject: [NetBehaviour] Long Live the Web.
Long Live the Web.
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our
continued prosperity<and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it
needs defending...
By Tim Berners-Lee.
The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva,
Switzerland, in December 1990. It consisted of one Web site and one
browser, which happened to be on the same computer. The simple setup
demonstrated a profound concept: that any person could share information
with anyone else, anywhere. In this spirit, the Web spread quickly from
the grassroots up. Today, at its 20th anniversary, the Web is thoroughly
integrated into our daily lives. We take it for granted, expecting it to
?be there? at any instant, like electricity.
The Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built on
egalitarian principles and because thousands of individuals,
universities and companies have worked, both independently and together
as part of the World Wide Web Consortium, to expand its capabilities
based on those principles.
The Web as we know it, however, is being threatened in different ways.
Some of its most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its
principles. Large social-networking sites are walling off information
posted by their users from the rest of the Web. Wireless Internet
providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they
have not made deals. Governments<totalitarian and democratic alike<are
monitoring people?s online habits, endangering important human rights.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web
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