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I have not written anything on this blog in over a month. It bothers me not to write for such long periods of time, since I know that my influence expands and contracts based on on how often I post. Relationships require frequency of contact to flourish, whether they be personal or business oriented; and the relationship between me as the author and you as the reader is no different.
Found thanks to the incredible Techmeme and Fortune.com, an article about Second Life opening up its desktop application (not the server) to the Open Source community. As a sometime resident (I dont visit nearly enough – my first life is keeping me away) this is a killer event for the developer community and the user.
Rosedale and other executives say they fully expect there eventually to be multiple virtual worlds that use Linden’s code, or that at least are interoperable with Second Life, so avatars can pass from one world to another. Says Rosedale: “Say IBM builds its own intranet version with our code that’s somewhat different from Second Life. But it’s probably not that different. A user may say ‘Wow, this virtual thing IBM’s built is pretty cool. Now I want to go the mainland.’ And we have another customer.”
Sounds like the kinda thing Marc Canter would dig.
Open source, open standards, open ID, and now… OPEN WORLDS. Taking SL out of one set of servers, distributing it, making a community of second lives – furries in one (or 100), builders in another (or 1000), designers in another, regular folks running through all – different social mores, codes of conduct, experiences, platforms…
Article here.
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Thanks to work, I missed the entire first and only season of Firefly. Since then I have seen the motion picture and checked out some of the fan stuff (always love it when people who are passionate about a story keep it alive) – but I could never get into the whole ‘browncoat’ thing.
It becomes interesting when the stars get into the act. Firefly’s fans helped push the studio to make the movie. They pushed to get the show released on DVD. The stars always suported the fans (isn’t it supposed to be the other way around?)!
Check out this link to see the next sement of this story – seems like there was a Firefly conference set up for this weekend.
It was cancelled at the last minute.
The fans still showed.
The actors still showed. And signed autographs, and gave gifts to the people who same from the UK and Australia for the con and were simply amazing from the reports.
A recurring theme at bloggercon and gnomedex this year was about how the users were in charge – we are taking more control, talking back to the marketers, making our voices heard. We are interacting with brands and products and experiences on our terms – sometimes to the pleasant (and unpleasant) surprise of marketers and advertisers.
These actors could have bailed or bitched, or split for home or the next gig. They stuck around. Hung out. Signed autographs. Nathan Fillion handed out gifts to the poor folks who came from across the Atlantic and Pacific.
But this shows that respect and admiration is a two-way street. The show had quality and charm and earned the love of the fans. The fans returned the love by making sure the show didnt die unknown. The fans kept it going and touched something in the actors – who returned the love to the fans.
I love stories like that.
Additional links:
http://melodies-of-you.livejournal.com/290484.html
I love reading Cringely
Except the Strawberry Fruit Roll-ups. They were good.
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