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1 year ago

in Time is Precious on Rich Desoto - My Life in the Metaverse
Rich,
I do not know who dealt the criticism . . . but it's bogus in my book. You've been engaged, involved, helpful, friendly, and have made significant contributions to the scene. I'm proud to know you, I enjoy listening to your music, and I hope that you continue doing what you can. Peace. the Professor
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richpalmer Ed, thanks much. I'm sure not going to disclose any names, because it would not help the person's reputation at all in the community. I'm not one to tarnish another's reputation based on personal conflict. And, of course, we all hold our own opinions and beliefs. I respect that.

Thanks much, my friend, for your kind words. I enjoy your tunes, as well! I appreciate the fact that you are using your education background to cross boundaries into the SL environs. It is also inspiring to me when I see people using new technologies to study and explore future potential. Keep singing and keep researching! We all benefit from your endeavors!

2 years ago

in The Big Controversies in Second Life on Gwyn's Home
Gwyneth:
Very interesting article. Helpful. Thanks.

I would note that Anshe Chung's taxonomy doesn't account for the group to which I belong . . . Educators/Researchers . . .

Though we will certainly spend time debating the value of SL for meeting our various goals, and though some of us have to build (or to hire someone to do it for us) so that we can have places to work, and although we will bring consumers (as students) into SL, I don't feel comfortable with putting our roles as teachers or researchers into any of the 4 categories Chung suggests.

The educators among us are working to discover/establish the viability of SL as a distance education and/or immersive learning environment. We're trying to see if this is a good place and way to reach and serve students and learning. The researchers among us are (in various ways) interested in the same stuff in SL as we are in RL: what, how and why do people do what they do and what does doing it mean to them.

Thanks for the interesting musings. Reading them provoked much thought.

Peace.

oh... one other topic of interest (probably to the "debaters"
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there are pretty stunning differences (of opinion/outlook/outcome, etc.) between what I'll call "the community rhetoric of the Lindens" and "the business rhetoric of the Lindens."

I am NOT blaming the Lindens for anything with this topic. I'm not implying that they are somehow misleading anyone or anything like that. I'm just pointing out that there are two very public "faces" of the Linden Labs effort and that both show sufficiently for someone to analyze them. In one version, SL is "a wholly user-created community." In the other SL is "after all, just a business." In the first version, the Lindons have only loose and facilitative control. In the second, they are absolutely ruthless Lords and Masters. The two rhetorics operating concurrently produce a really interesting and sometimes paradoxical meaning environment.

enuf. Once again, thanks for the great prompt. Peace.
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