I’ve compiled them, and you can find a summary at the Aether Chrononauts site.
A most hearty thank you to all who completed the survey. I am amazed by the number of responses.
In honor of Ada Lovelace
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, I want to highlight the generosity and good spirit of Her Grace, CoyoteAngel Dimsum, Duchess of Primverness, the Baroness Lovelace, Defender of the Faith(less), Keeper of the Light (Beer), Speaker to Machines. CoyoteAngel is to me the epitome of a “geek duchess”: creative, experimental, savvy, patient yet no pushover, and extremely generous. Not only are CoyoteAngel’s lands open to all for recreation, she also hosts the long-term site of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Second Life, with all its prims, scripts, avatars and their attendant lag. Anyone who needs a megaprim can find them in her domains, along with sculpty stairs and arches, girders, a variety of flying machines, and sculpty maps of parts of Caledon.
And all this while carrying on a career and building a business as a programmer in “real life.”
Brava, Your Grace!
An amazing list of bloggers
It’s not quite a complete list (I’m missing, for instance), but ArminasX Saiman has done an absolutely amazing job of combing through Second Life-related blogs and researching their Technorati ranking. His latest list is at Second Effects: Who’s The Biggest? Redux.
Pyramid schemes
I’ve been playing the HUD-based Tiny Empires game in Second Life, in a fairly casual manner (although I am using the Federation version). I came to the party late, and I’ve never tried much to create a downline (“subjects”), but I like the approach taken by Valentine Janus, the leader of New Deseret, the kingdom I belong to. So it’s an amusing diversion.
The creator of Tiny Empires has come out with a new game, Tiny Empires 3000, and when Val offered the opportunity to try it out, I decided to take her up on it. Similar concept: hierarchies of players amassing property, capital, rank, etc., but this time with a space traders theme. If you’d like to try it out, let me know, and I’m happy to drop a trial HUD on you (also available via the website), and of course I’d be glad to have you join my guild!