Archive - 2008
January 23rd
Wordless Wednesday
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 11:30
January 22nd
Look, there goes a squirrel
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 19:05When I have something important to work on and need a distraction, there are several places I go. BlogExplosion provides a never ending list of websites to visit with the promise of sending people back to your own blog. MyBlogLog provides ample blogs to visit. When you visit them, if they have the MyBlogLog widget up, it leaves your picture on the blogs you’ve visited, and if you’re lucky, people will click on your image and visit your blog. If I want to check sites that I’m following more actively, I check the approximately 300 blogs that I follow with Bloglines Then there are Twitter’s to read, conversations in Second Life to join in on, and if all else fails, you can always read your referrer log.
Recent ma.noglia bookmarks
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 16:24Here are pages I've recently bookmarked with ma.gnolia:
Orient Lodge | A literary outpost on the internet
This Second Marketing LLC
This Second Marketing LLC is a marketing agency that specializes in leveraging the Second Life platform to empower brands to engage audiences in a compelling and super engaging way.
The Linden Lab Banking Ban and the World Markets
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 14:48Back on January 8th, Linden Lab announced their ban on unregulated in world banking. This brought about many discussions. How big an impact would this have? Some people think banks are extraneous to Second Life. Others view them as an important part of capital creation.
My initial reaction was that it was a ill thought out reaction by Linden Lab that would have both a short term and a longer term negative impact on the Second Life economy.
Today is when the ban is supposed to take effect, and I must admit, I’ve been shocked by the reaction. The Federal Reserve Bank has reduced Fed Funds rate by 75 basis points. That is the largest single cut in interest rates since 1984, long before Second Life even existed.
Even with this intervention by the Federal Reserve Bank, the Dow Industrials dropped 465 before climbing back. Meanwhile, the markets in Second Life appeared stable today.
January 21st
Mark Pera fundraiser in Second Life
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 01/21/2008 - 17:50This evening there will be the first political fundraiser that I know of taking place in Second Life. Details can be found in Blue Revolution’s diary on DailyKos. While the fundraiser will take place in Second Life, they are not going to have a tip jar, convert the Linden dollars and try to deal with all those issues. Instead, people are being encouraged to donate via the Second Life Democrats for Mark Pera page on ActBlue.
I would love to see these sort of events flourish as a means of drawing donors together for a fun virtual get together for those times when people can’t meet face to face. Other progressive Second Life events can be found in a different Second Life diary that has gone up today.
