This morning's closing speech

Residents = Bad
Suits and ties = Good

Poseballs = Bad
Briefcases = Good

College girl outfits = Bad
Actual girls in college = Good

As a member of the Marginalized and Dispossessed kinda early adopter, I feel adequately warned that I have to put up my six guns and start becoming civilized.

Considering how many of the early adopters managed to create, sustain and make profitable a wide variety of businesses under pioneer conditions, I would call them pretty pragmatic. I don't think being an early adopter and being pragmatic are mutually exclusive.

Don't cha just love charts? There was a big red line between the early adopter part and the pragmatic part of the bell curve. Will I have to jump it, ooze thru it? Throw more money at it? How do we get to the other side to become the pragmatists?

Maybe the first Linden prize can go to the person who builds a big train so that us early adopters can hop aboard and cross that big red line into the SL that is to come.

It prolly wouldn't make through a sim crossing.

I prefer to be pragmatic in my Real Life, not in my Play Life. I don't think I'll get on that train.

Hmm, not a bad idea...at least as long as the pizza guy still will deliver to the folks on the wrong side of the tracks.

I am just glad for opensim. It giving birth to places like openlife, realxtend ,etc etc means a lot of options soon.

LL can have it's colleges, medical crowd, business people, etc
this is one resident that no longer feels a commitment to them as they have shown they have none to me.

I'm glad you still have your priorities straight.

Huh, I sort of expected them to announce something specific that would be an idication that things were going to end as we know it.

I didn't expect them to just up and announce that things were going to end as we know it!

not sure who Mitch was tryin to convince with his BS but I dont think it was meant for SL residents

Nor is SL any more it seems.

QFT

Sounds like some sort of male 'enhancement' product...

Now when I use it I will think of two things:

1. You
2. what you said.

Happy?

If that big red line is anything like a linden right-of-way that train may never get across.

Yep.

When you use what? Realxtend or the male 'enhancement' product.

I was trying to be discreet.

Heh I just got the mental image of that twilight zone episide witht he man of the state standing on high (only with Mitch in his place) pointing his finger down at us all declaring "YOU ARE OB-SO-LETE"!

The part that got me wasn't so much the bell curve and the big red line, but the babble about making things less central and, um, Thomas Jefferson, and announcements to come. Who are they putting in charge and what are they going to do? How could LL make themselves _less_ involved than they are with running the joint?

They could
1. kill the individual blogs and make one central one that reports on the things they are working on to make professional users better off.

2. Close the forums.

3. Get rid of premium level accounts, make all basic and pull back support completely relying only on volunteers (mentors) and knowledge bases and Third party means to train new users.

4. Dispose of the mainland leaving only islands as the means to get land.. thus shifting all responsibility of what happens on the Island owners instead of any hitting LL.

No, I don't think these things are on the table but I would not be surprised if any or all came to pass making them even more removed from the "resident".

It really would not take much to shift the focus 100% on to the professional user base. And with less residents around they can kiss those concurrency issues goodbye.

At this point it is all up on the air.

The speech is a hint, a glimpse of how Second Life is slowly killing the Television and social chat networks such as FaceBook, MySpace, forums, and related communication mediums. I think the speech was mostly meant for researchers, educators, and any technology buff who is curious.

In summary, it forces other industries such as music industry and television networks to take part in Second Life, why? To follow where the people are heading.

What I find ammusing is how Second Life will be the place for the safest sex you can get and slowly will replace condems. (jokingly) Maybe even slashing STDs, who knows but to me its even scary to think about whether Second Life would cause damage long term or will it really be something really good.

There is still the problem of hairy palms and going blind.

I thought you hired yourself a typist.......

Yeah, I heard you were looking for a career change.