A brief update on press articles about SL

You’ll have seen me rant about articles that are little more than badly reserached lazy pieces on how SL is dying and full of perverts and wierdos written to fill copy and meet a deadline. You’ll also have seen me praising articles where the author obviously took time to get to know more about SL and produced some good points on where it needs improving and where it really shines. Well there must be something in the air at the moment as there have been a flurry of such good & bad articles in the press and here are three more for you:

The Good: Randall Hand of VizWorld takes his second look into SL and focuses on machinema.

The Bad: Via Pixel Scoop comes news of a frankly terrible article by yet another lazy-arsed fuckwit.

The Meh: Barry Collins (fresh from his mauling by Dio) answers some of the many points his orginal piece of crap spawned.

There ya go – go along to them and comment at will.

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Edit: I left a comment for The Bad but I doubt it’ll get on:

Wow, well done. I honestly never thought anyone would top the BBC online magazine’s recent article about Second Life but you’ve managed it in spades. That was the worst piece of under-researched, poorly-presented pap I’ve read since, well since the BBC’s under-researched, poorly-presented pap.

Please don’t think I’m saying this because you didn’t like my hobby. That’s not it at all. You have every right to ignore, dislike and never use SL again, but at least get your facts about it correct when you write for what I assume is a semi-professional site.

I’m pretty sure you don’t, but if you want to read a far more balanced view of an non-SL user’s experience on SL, try Randall Hand’s posts over at VizWorld:

http://www.vizworld.com/2010/01/state-union-vizworld-life/

http://www.vizworld.com/2010/01/life-video-production-machinima/

 

Losing Dr Mason

Just as my first venture into collaborative writing gets under way, my partner in prose, Dr Darien Mason, is removed from SL by Linden Lab. Buggeration.

 

Where art thou, Burro?

Ill in bed, that’s where. RL is very, very busy at the moment and I’ve come down with a hideous cold (and I speak as one who does not let mere ‘man-flu’ stop me) right in the middle of it. I’ve had little option but to push on regardless (after all, Ikea furniture does not erect itself) and deal with the wooziness and manic hot/cold/fainty spells as they wash over me. I’m on the mend again – me and the virus had a word, it wanted to carry on and do more damage, I objected to this and bit it in half to show just how displeased I was – but RL is going to be very, very busy over January and February so I may not be in-world as much as I have been of late. Never fear though, Burro fans, for I am not leaving – after all, I’ve only just begun to explore this world with my new friends. I’ve got to beat Osprey at CC yet – I have to contact Sal’s great grandma about the strange goings on in Kahruvel – I have to go a-story hunting with Scoop Bracken – I’ve got to so much to do with all my mates! Although I’m looking forward to Jan and Feb, when it comes to SL, roll on March I say