Our new islands have been delivered! We still can’t access them, since permissions need to be set. But within a couple of days you’ll be able to visit these raw pieces of land within SL. This semester will see quite a bit of development here.
Month: January 2007
Analysis: Should you pay for a premium SL membership?
I get this question a lot, and I can’t answer it definitively, because the answer is “it depends on what you want in SL.” Related to this are questions about buying land. Here are some factors that go into answering those questions for yourself. Caution: this involves a lot of math, and I am not a math guy, so you might want to check my assumptions and figuring. Continue reading
Thoughtful, well-reasoned post about SL strengths and weaknesses
It can be hard to find an unbiased article about Second Life, between the extremes of promoters and naysayers. Here is a post that, though not unbiased, presents a solidly reasoned look at SL strengths and weaknesses. The writer, James Wagner Au, is very clear about his associations with SL, and though a proponent of SL, he does not view it through a rose-colored monitor. Take a look at “Second Life: Hype vs. Anti-Hype vs. Anti-Anti-Hype”.