Archive for March, 2008
Greenies Postcard Contest on Surfline
March 31, 2008 6:59 pm
Always wanted your photograph on display on the Greenies fridge?
The Flickr group Greenies Holiday Photographs is created especially for the gathering of entries for the Greenies Postcard Contest.
There are 3 themes, and you can submit a max of 3 photographs/theme:
- Best Postcard (tag: “surfline_postcard”)
- Best Holiday Photo (tag: “surfline_holiday”)
- Best Action/Sports photo (tag: “surfline_sports”)
For an entry to be valid, the photograph must be taken at one of the Rezzable Surfline sims and must contain at least one Greenie.
The best entry in each category (as decided upon by Nock Forager, Nobody Fugazi and Vint Falken) shall receive 5000L$. The winning photographs will be put up on the Greenie fridge for a month with a note saying who created them. Rezzable is allowed to use the three winners for promotional purposes when attribution is given.
The contest starts *now* and ends on the 15th of April. The winners will be notified before the 22th using Flickr mail and in-world IM.
What hangs on the fridge now? Of course, these do not enter the contest. I’m sure you can do better anyway!
“Primolution” was created in 2006 by Stella Costello and the photograph seen here was taken by Tao Takashi. Just to awesome to not share this finding with the rest of the my world:
Makes you think, no? ;)
Boudoir Rouge
12:40 pm
Does it show that I met Codie last night? Sadly enough, I logged on to late for the Second Life Blogger’s party hosted by Mr. Crap. But time with Codie made up for it. Really! So, Codie has this Boudoir Rouge thing going on….
When I think of ‘boudoir’, I think of a dressing room, of soft, sensual and girly stuff. I associate it with sweet smells and feminine items all over the place. So I decided upon giving Miss Codie her own perfume… with a tiny Codie inside in stead of a flower. Thank you for a lovely evening night, your Royal Red Highness! ;)
Motorability, The United Spinal Association in Second Life
March 30, 2008 2:25 pm
When I asked whatever happened to Motorati (the Pontiac sims) a while ago, I got told it was baptised ‘Motorability’ and handed over to the United Spinal Association. Wondering what the hell cars had to do with spinal cord injuries - except for causing them - I did not really see the link.
Reading the article on Jody DeVere’s blog made it all a bit more clear:
Major sponsor and coordinating efforts by the car culture community on United Spinal’s Motorability Island is Jody DeVere ( aka Avatar Patty Streeter in Second Life), President of AskPatty.com – Automotive Advice for Women and a member of the board of directors for United Spinal Association.
DeVere’s son Joseph was involved in a tragic car accident in 2005 which resulted in paraplegia. This event created a big passion in her to help provide non-traditional recreational and quality of life programs for disabled Americans.
Yesterday Amanda Shinji offered me a teleport to the island when the big launch - it’s officially live and open now - was in progress.
Upon arriving, I felt instantly sorry for the slowly rezzing guy in the wheelchair - UnitedSpinalDonation Lane, sitting all by himself in the corner. I thought ‘Hey, let’s make new friends.’ and IM’d him. He was rather busy with tons of IM’s, so I guess I was the one being pathetic. Especially as after offering me some wheel chairs, he left me on my own to figure out how to use them. My apologies to all the people me and my wheelchair bumped in to! Driving stuff in Second Life isn’t as easy as it looks.
To visit the Motorability initiative’s homepage, go to motorability.com. I’m definitely going to explore their knowledge center soon. And I wonder if they have cars that allow you to drive your wheelchair in them and then ride them.
The Little Newbie, Second Life Music Video
March 29, 2008 7:26 pmNeko King of the Dancehall
March 27, 2008 3:56 pmSecond Life Fankit or inSL?
March 26, 2008 4:25 pmIf you’re developing a site, check out the downloadable Fansite Toolkit for Second Life logos, banners and backgrounds for use on your site. … Ideally, your site will have updated banners and logos (available from our Fansite Toolkit), with links to the Second Life registration page to encourage others to join!
This is what you get when you go and read the Community’s Fansites page on SecondLife.com. This is what they used to do to encourage us - Bloggers and others with SL dedicated sites - to do to support them. Now we have 90 days to remove that copyright infringing content. As Orange Montagne pointed out on Dedric Mauriac’s Generic Post to Avoid Copyright Infringement, the Fansite Toolkit is still there, contain all the hand-in-eye logo’s you could wish for. So let’s all cheer for LL’s firm and non-confusing guidelines!
But just to be sure, we could all follow Rheta Shan’s prime example of how a true dedicated Second Life® Resident should behave to make his or her published content as conform as possible with the new Second Life® Brand Guidelines. She did several modifications to her content of which this one is probably the most drastic: All mentions of Linden Research’s trademark « Second Life » have been replaced by « You-Know-Where » throughout all posts, pages and comments. She - and all bloggers with her - await anxiously for Linden Lab’s legal team to overview the changes and acknowledge Miss Shan has taken the appropriate measures to ensure a non-infringing blog. If she gets that approval, the same modifications will be put through on all content she published on the internet, if it is modifiable.
In the mean while, my heart goes out to: ’secondlifeherald.com, SLprofiles.com, SL-newspaper.com, SLartmagazine.com (less), SLexchange.com (less, I assume they have permission), SLforum.be, secondlifecrew.be, SL-central.com, SLmannequin.com, SL-education.org, second-life.com (less, to obvious a rip-off), secondlifedating.nl, secondlifevideo.com, etc. etc. etc.’ And to all the poor Linden™ Lawyers that will get to hunt those down. Or won’t they? Probably they wont? And then why are we making a fuzz?
Myself? Frankly, because I feel cheated on. From ‘Ideally, your site will have updated banners and logos’ to ‘This is forbidden now’ is a long way. Somewhere on that road I would have loved to see at least a ‘We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused.’ sign. And if Linden Lab - is that ® or ™ - fails to respond quickly and adequately to content creator’s claims of IP infringement, then why should we care about their property rights, if they do not care much about ours?
Veronique Kaminski drowns kitten
1:37 pmVirtual World named Second Life®, behold, rejoice and shiver: Miss Veronique Kaminski is back on the grid. I must admit I missed her. Her witty comments, her sometimes strand opinion on me and my behaviour and her smart-ass replies. I had great fun with her on Carnival of Doom, although, I was the one that had to die all the time… Miss Kaminski, we have about 10 attractions to do together still. See you next Sunday?
Second Life web resources for March 23rd 2008 through March 24th 2008
March 25, 2008 1:30 amA quick lesson, which we all seem to have to learn:
| ALT + 0174 | makes ® | ALT + 0153 | makes ™ |
(this works for in-world chat too)
Why do we need it? Ah, Linden Lab® changed trademark policy. Where they used to encourage us to post a nice little eye-in-hand Second Life® virtual world logo on top of our headers, they now say that is a no go. Avatars of the Second Life® unite, throw all your existing textures, blog headers, real life books even that contain the eye-in-hand logo on a pile and rezz a fire. Do take the effort to create new ones though, containing the following logo, that shows we are inSL™. I feel a bit confused though, and have no urge to stick it on this blog. After all, my blog is ‘about SL’ or ‘on SL’ but now where inSL™. Html on a prim does not function well enough for that yet.
Anyway, if you want to sign up for inSL™ logo use, go here. Be aware though, it is only to be used on a white background. Let’s talk about boring. And ‘If displayed with logos for other virtual worlds or platforms, the inSL logo must be the same size and given equal prominence as the other logos.‘ I would assume bigger is ok too! ;)
I suggest you print out the guidelines and hang them on the toilet wall, to memorize them, as they are rather complicated:
I do not have ‘a Second Life‘ anymore, neither am I allowed to talk about ‘my Second Life‘. Then how do I do it? When I want to talk about ‘your Second Life®’ I say you have ‘a Second Life®’. Thank the Linden Gods I can still call you a ‘SL user‘ or ‘Second Life avatar‘ though. If I want to discuss this with you in-world, I need to throw you an SLurl®, not a slurl. And we now pay in Linden™ dollars. And how did you log on to the SL Grid™ today? Using the Windlight™ client? I see… .
What is very interesting though:
No Trademark or Business-Name Registration. Never register your full SL Associated Name, or any part of your SL Associated Name that includes “SL” or “inSL,” as a trademark, service mark, or business or organization name. For example:
This is OK to register: Architectural Design Services
This is NOT OK to register: SL Architectural Design Services (can’t include “SL”) Architectural Design Services inSL (can’t include “inSL”)
Imho this - once again - renders the SLart trademark claim void. Especially with this added: Your SL Associated Name must use “SL” or “inSL” (but not both) in combination with your own word mark (for example, Dell® or Toyota®, if you own those word marks), or in combination with a name that uses at least two generic nouns.
And as I’m not in the USA:
Linden Lab and Second Life and InSL and Linden and SLurl and SL are trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. I hope I did not forget one.
Before anybody panics, they will probably not shoot you for just mentioning Second Life and not Second Life® in conversation. Probably the same with blogging about your Second Life in stead of your Second Life®. As long as you are not using any of the Linden Lab trademarks for business, selling, branding, advertising and dubious domain names, you should be ok.
