Blogflux.com has really great directory searches. From there I found this blog. I haven't read tons of it but find what I've seen so far interesting. It looks like another chronicle from someone of their SL experiences but maybe more frequently than mine are. I think for me, I enjoy thinking about and finding out information on other's experiences in SL more than having my own. I guess I'm more of a SL philosopher as I'm not really into the experience of it. Ok, I've admitted it. Hopefully that doesn't keep you from checking out some of the interesting finds and thoughts related to SL on my blog. Also, check out this other person's blog related to SL over 365 days. Enjoy.
http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/
If you are yourself also a Newb and want to no more about that from the above site they have a category just for us.
Go to: http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/
Beyond that they have a lot of interesting categories and I think you could spend a lot of time just searching through what interests you there. Don't forget to check back here once in awhile though.
One Year with Second Life Insider
Social Change in Second Life?
I tend to be much more into You Tube than Blip but I found this on an interesting blog. The blog is: http://sodacity.net/ and is kept up by a digital media professor named Morgan Schwartz. I found it by searching New Media on blogflux.com. If all goes well my home page will be on blogflux soon. Anyway, back to the point of this post. So here's the video and below are Josh Levy's comments from Blip on his video.
What Josh Levy posted on Blip about his video:
A Better World in Second Life? is a machinima documentary about how real-world activists are using the virtual world Second Life as a platform for social and political activism. In the film I meet progressive organizers and environmental, anti-war, and anti-genocide activists who are using Second Life for collaboration, organizing, advocacy, and creative work. I question the nature of activism in a virtual world, and wonder whether spending time in a virtual space necessarily moves participants toward action, or merely gives them a false sense of action and catharsis.
The film is broken up into five chapters. Each chapter is linked to on the right.
The project benefited from the help of several kind folks: please go to www.levjoy.com/betterworld/about for thank-yous and more information.
-Josh Levy
Dwight's Second Second Life
One of the interesting characteristics of television is its ability to self-reference itself and build upon those references. I suppose it comes as no surprise then that other cultural media forms (SL, the YouTube, etc.) that sometimes reference television in their user generated content are now also being referenced by television. Where will all this snow balling get us? Well, I don't know yet but if I figure it out before you it will probably be posted on this blog.
Anyway, here's a the YouTube clip of The Office when Dwight is talking about his avatar Dwight in Second Life. I haven't found one yet that has the part when Dwights creation of SL within SL to make a SL SL for himself yet. I'm sure it will also end up here when I find it.
