Second Life Bloggers Mix’n Match #1
October 24, 2008 9:38 amAssignments now available!
Second Life Bloggers Mix’n Match: The Overview
What’s this all about? Well, ArminasX came to me with the idea of ’swapping blogs’ for a few posts. The idea quickly grew into something bigger, and we would like to invite the entire SLogosphere to participate. In this Mix’n Match game, more players means more interaction which means all the more fun.
Why would you participate?
A few good reasons why you would participate in the SL Bloggers Mix’n Match game:
- You hate to be left out.
- You’re looking forward to broaden your virtual horizons, and with this I do not mean maxing your draw distance! ;) Admit it, we all have our ‘hot issues’ we regularely blog about. Would it not be a good thing to look beyond that, to go & write further that we’re used to, and research some new virtual stuff?
- You want to make new friends in the SLogosphere. Because you can never have enough friends or linklove?
- You’re currently suffering from blogblock. You’re desperate for a good story!
- You appreciate a challenge. Demonstrate you can write something that makes some - or absolutely none at all - sense, regardless how comfortable you are with the topic.
- You like the unexpected. Because who knows who will be writing for your blog!
- Your blog’s name & location.
- Your name
- A title and subject for a (Second Life related) blogpost.
- A valid email address.
- Blog: vintfalken.com at www.vintfalken.com
- Blogger: Vint Falken
- Subject: The evolution of SLex
- Email: moc.elbazzer@tniv (<- reverse)
Mixing and matching, how will we do it?
You let us know you want to play by leaving a comment - including a valid email address - either here or on ArminasX’ announcement. You have until Friday the 31th of October to decide if you want to participate in one of the kewlest Second Life blog games ever. That comment will include:
On November 1st, a innocent hand - I suggest that’s mine, no offence meant, Mr ArminasX Saiman :d - draws the ‘winning’ combinations and those will appear on vintfalken.com and secondeffects.com. Participating SL bloggers will also be notified by email. An example of how the list will look like:
| BloggerA | BloggerB | BloggerC |
| SubjectB | Subject | SubjectA |
| BlogC | BlogA | SubjectB |
This means that BloggerA will write about a subject suggested by bloggerB on the bloggerC’s blog.
Once you got your ‘blogging mission’ you will start writing on your assigned subject. When your story is finished - and between 500 & 1000 words - you hand it over together with at least one snapshot to illustrate your story to the owner of the blog that will publish it. Deadline to do so is Sunday November 9th. All stories will be published on Wednesday November 12th. The format for that is:
Blogpost & pictures. Style at will.
Author name (+ link to his/her blog)
Person who suggested the subject (+ link to his/her blog)
Link to the blog where your blogpost will appear (optional)
Link to the person who will blog the subject you suggested (optional)
Who is game?
I’ll start with signing myself & vintfalken.com up:
73 Responses to “Second Life Bloggers Mix’n Match #1”
Sounds like a great idea!
Blog: Stories From Another Life (http://rikpfalz.wordpress.com)
Blogger: Rik / Osiris Pfalz
Subject: Visions of SL in 5 years time
Email: moc.liamg@hsifcihcyspeht (<- reverse)
1. Blog: Metaversally Speaking @ http://www,pradprathivi.com
2. Blogger: Prad Prathivi
3. Subject: Segregation in Second Life
4. Email: moc.liamelgoog@selddarp (<–reverse)
1. Blog: What is this crap? at firstlife.isfullofcrap.com
2. Blogger: Crap Mariner
3. Subject: The Best Moment In Your SL
4. Email: mon.parcfollufsi@reniraMparC (<- perverse)
Blog: Common Sensible at commonsensible.net
Blogger: Ari Blackthorne
Subject: Why Lindens who face the public get a bad wrap
Email: pixietale [at] gmail dot com
Woohoo number too: ;)
Blog: Socially Mundane at sociallymundane.com
Blogger: Ari Blackthorne
Subject: Why is fashionista drama is both a good thing - and a bad thing?
Email: pixietale [at] gmail dot com
Sounds like fun.
/me bite nails wondering the subject matter that lands in his lap.
YAY!!!
Blog: living in the Metaverse
Blogger: dandellion Kimban
Subject: SL-specific art and expression forms
email: acidzen [at] gmail [dot] com
1. Blog: Writing the Sonnet at brandaluna.net
2. Blogger: Brandy Rasmuson
3. Subject: the ways the SL experience is affected by avatars connecting outside SL with sites like plurk and flickr
4. Email: brandyrasmuson at gmail dot com
Awesome idea. Reminds me of the old Free-For-All-Friday days on my personal blog. :-D
1. Wonderland Travels - http://kirasha.wordpress.com
2. Kirasha Urqhart
3. Is Second Life Truly a Second Life or an Extension of the First?
4. kirashasilverpen (at) gmail (dot) com
My personal blog entry:
One Girl | Two Worlds at http://mearadeschanel.blogspot.com/
Meara Deschanel
Love and Romance in Second Life
meara DOT deschanel AT gmail DOT com
And for fun, the group bad fashion blog:
What the Fug? at http://wehatewhatyourewearing.blogspot.com/
Meara Deschanel
Do’s and don’t of SL avatar fashion (using pictures as examples!)
meara DOT deschanel AT gmail DOT com
1. Blog: “Eladrienne’s Other Life” at elinsl.blogspot.com
2. Blogger: Eladrienne Laval
3. Subject: SL as an Exploration of Culture & Diversity
4. Email: eladrienne at gmail dot com
That’s odd that an extra element was added to my post as I didn’t put it there! My blog’s name is “Eladrienne’s Other Life”
1. Blog: http://dannimatzk.co.uk
2. Blogger: Danni Ohara
3. Subject: A child in an adult world- being a child avatar in Second Life
4. Email: danni [at] dannimatzk [dot] co [dot] uk
Ok, let’s get busy!
1. Blog: Gany’s take on (any) life
http://ganymedescostagravas.wordpress.com
2. Blogger: Ganymedes Costagravas
3. Subject: Paying it forward: I used my knowledge on [???] to help [stranger(s) / noob(s) / friend(s) you haven’t talked to in ages / ???] today!
4. Email: ganymedes1985 [at] hotmail [dot] com
1. Gwyn’s Home
2. Blogger: Gwyneth Llewelyn
3. Subject: What will the impact of OpenSim 1.0 be to the SL land economy? (Hint for your text: don’t assume that OpenSim-based grid will be as reliable or as fast as LL’s own; explore the business opportunity of getting cheap, low-cost sims running on low-end, unreliable servers)
4. Email: gwyneth [dot] llewelyn [at] gwynethllewelyn [dot] net
1. Blog: Her Royal Highness, Princess Ivory at http://hrhprincessivory.blogspot.com/
2. Blogger: Princess Ivory
3. Subject:
Gender Identity in SL: Living your SL as the opposite gender.
Do you need to be “honest” with your close friends and relationships about your RL gender or do you think it isn’t relevant? How do you handle it if someone is hurt by your supposed “deception?” How does your SL self impact the thoughts and feelings of your RL self as time passes and you grow in SL?
(just some suggested issues to address on this topic - feel free to go in another direction with it if you wish).
4. Email: princess.ivory.sl@gmail.com
Blog: All Things Tiessa (http://tiessam.blogspot.com)
Blogger: Tiessa Montgolfier
Subject: Write a true story of your early personal experiences in SL, including humor, a touch of sex (or innuendo), and some new surprise you discovered about yourself through your introduction to SecondLife. Similar to my Mistress Strangelove series of posts.
Email: Vint knows mine, she’ll give it to whomever needs it.
Cool! This is a great idea! Gee, maybe I’ll actually have to post something of substance … wonder if I’m up to it?
1. Blog: n0nSLensical!! at http://n0nslensical.blogspot.com
2. Blogger: Merrick Thor
3. Subject: Mixing RL and SL - The dynamics and pitfalls of living and playing in SL with your RL significant other
4. Email: merrick.thor@gmail.com
Bring on da bloggin’!!
I will be unable to blog about sex. Truly. Um. No. I mean it.
1. Blog: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse http://dusanwriter.com
2. Blogger Dusan Writer
3. Subject: The deeper meaning of Philip’s hair: if hair is such an important component of the user’s experience of virtual worlds, what does it say that Philip Linden has awful hair? Is he too visionary for prim hair? Is he missing something? What kind of hair would you recommend? (Photos and SLURLs welcome).
4. Email: dusan.writer at gmail
neat!
1. Blog: T I NY D A N C I N G at http://kanomi.blogspot.com
2. Blogger: Kanomi
3. Subject: The funniest thing that ever happened to me in SL
4. Email: kanomi.pikajuna(AT)gmail.com
Might I suggest that instead of releasing all the entries at once, you spread them out over a number of days or weeks, working up to the grand prize winners? Build some suspense, keep up traffic to both of your blogs, etc.
Just a thought. I think I’d like it better that way. Something new to read each day. If they all come out at once, I’m not as likely to set aside enough time to read them all, and I won’t do any of them justice if I am trying to process my reactions to more than a few at at time.
Looking forward to this!
Princess Ivory
Vint, blogged this on my blog today to help get the word out. My big readership of about 10 people might see it!
How about a Write In event or events? Where we just get together in the same place to work on our writing. Maybe Milk Wood (my new home), or INKsters, or Written Word? Those are the ones that come to mind first. And I’m sure there are many more suitable writing locations to hang out in as well. What do you think?
Princess Ivory
1. Blog: “Constructs of a Mind” at mykylnordwind.blogspot.com
2. Blogger: Mykyl Nordwind
3. Subject: “How Real is SL?” - Is SL just a game, or is it another reality? If it is another reality, how close is it to The Actual World (TAW) in which we live?
4. Email: mykylnordwind at gmail dot com
1. Blog: Wild Words at http://wildstarbeaumont.blogspot.com
2. Blogger: Wildstar Beaumont
3. Subject: Drama and neighbor wars on mainland
4. Email: wildstarbeaumont [at] gmail [dot] com
1. Tenth Life: http://otenth.homefries.org
2. Otenth Paderborn
3. Discovery of self in SL
4. my.name (you know what to do) at gmail dot com
1. Blog: alphonsuspeck.blogger.com
2. Blogger: Alphonsus Peck
3. Subject: Digital Suicide
4. Email: moc.liamg@kcep.susnohpla
Hey Otenth Paderborn - can you leave an email address for us?
Blog: Botgirl’s Second Life Diary
Blogger: Botgirl Questi
Subject: My Week Offline: A post about 5 days cold turkey from Second Life and any messaging contact with the Second Life community such as GTalk, Plurk, etc.(blog posts okay, of course.)
Email: botgirlq at gmail dot com
Uniques Needs!
Ann Otoole
True Mentoring: Describe how you have seriously taken on a complete noob as an apprentice and helped them along the path to Sl creationism and how did you feel when they proudly announced they had made their first sale and how “big” have they subsequently made it in SL as a designer. I.e.; the secret of making SL (and RL) a better place starts with true selfless mentoring.
missannotoole@yahoo.com
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Thanks Miss Princess, and I think at this moment with the high amount of people already signed up (ty for helping!) spreading the posts would cause lots of confusion.
But of course, if this goes well, maybe some avatar will stand up to organise SL Bloggers Mix’n Match 2 and they’ll give it a different spin. Of course, ArminasX and I will hunt down the complete list of blogposts once they are up, so maybe you can use that list as a referral point to read a few each day, as to not get an overdose? ;)
1. The Winter Market
2. Nadine Nozaki
3. Real of Second feelings?
4. Nadine.Nozaki gmail com
Blog: JohanYugen.co.uk (quite predictably at http://www.johanyugen.co.uk)
Blogger: Johan Yugen
Subject: Fashion in SL - Can we run out of ideas? Fashion in RL seems to have gone off on tangents in order to find new ideas. This may not work in SL, what’s your view on this?
Email: johanyugen AT Gmail DOT com
I’m not sure if this is still open — “Sunday, November 1st” doesn’t exist this year — but I’m game.
Blog: Samantha Speaks — http://samanthapoindexter.wordpress.com
Blogger: Samantha Poindexter
Subject: Religion in Second Life
Oh, e-mail. Vint should have it from the comment field, but it’s samantha.poindexter@gmail.com
Oopz, thanks for pointing that out, Samantha! Corrected to 2nd of November, 1AM SLT. Glad your church wishes to join our initiative! ;)
Blog: Geta (http://getasecondlife.net)
Blogger: Cat Magellan
Subject: “Correlation between Drama in SL and A Very Small Number of Brain Cells”
[the lucky winner of my subject won’t have to write it in Portuguese; and I promise to write my post in (very bad) English]
email: miragem at gmail dot com
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oops. Missed my url. http://botgirl.blogspot.com
Blog: Aviatrix :: Zoe Connolly http://zoeconnolly.blogspot.com/
Blogger: Zoe Connolly
Subject: Since you first rezzed upon the SL shore, how has your focus changed from your early noobish days to the present?
Example from my own SLife: Dancer > Mistress > Girl with Gun > Steampunk Explorer > and now Aviatrix.
Email: zoeconnolly [at] gmail [dot] com
Blog: http://ariadnekorda.blogspot.com/
Blogger: Ari K
Mail: ariadnesfiction AT hotmail DOT com
Subject: Time management in SL (how do you set priorities, where are yours, how do you find time to do it all, from building to hopping on pose balls to exploring the grid)
Blog: http://tiyukquellmalz.org/blogs/blog6.php
Blogger: Tiyuk Quellmalz
Mail: smcnam .at. gmail-dot… well, you know the rest ;)
Subject: The power of llHttpRequest: How have remote server applications, paid for and operated by residents outside SL, enhanced your SL experience?
For the uninitiated: An example of what I’m referring to is Xstreet SL, where you can use a terminal in-world to communicate with a privately-owned server to buy and sell goods and L$. http://www.xstreetsl.com/
Feel free to discuss other good examples of remote server usage in SL in your post… xstreet is merely one example :)
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Blog http://shockwaveplasma.net
Name Shockwave Plasma
Email ShockwavePlasma At googlemail dot com
Subject:- What have you learned about running your SL business and/or what have you learned from watching how Linden Labs run their business?
You’ve made a mistake with an email address for Alphonsus Peck, both in the “is writing” section and the address that his featured author (Torley Linden) should submit his entry to. The correct address is Alphonsus.Peck@gmail.com This would probably also apply to the listing for whoever got his topic, but at the moment I don’t know who that is.
Thank you, Princess Ivory. I’ll fwd that to ArminasX who holds the master email list. (And sorry!)
Cannot find the person who suggested “To voice or not to voice”???
Ok found it
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I wish I had heard of this earlier! Just saw it on Torley’s Twitter account. How very cool though… if you ever have one again I’ll be sure to check back!
Grr, I only just found out about this from the SL login screen :-(
That was kind of the point, Ina. Keep it low profile so only your buddies get in on it. :) Then advertise the hell out of it so your friends get a zillion hits. :)
Darien, I hope you’re joking here. If you did not hear about it yet, I assume you’re reading the wrong blogs, twitter and plurk streams. And not even frequenting the right in-world group.
I heard about it so it definitely was not low profile. What is low profile on purpose is fashion expos. Only the people they want in them hear about it until all booths are full rofl. Drat! Forgot to mention that in my article… Oh well lol.
Hamlet Au’s blog is pretty current and good to watch. All these sl journalist’s blogs are good to keep an eye on. Eats a lot of time though. :P
damn I missed the deadline
maybe next time
We publicized the event in all the means we had available to us, and then some. In other words, it was the highest profile publicity we could arrange. The objective was not traffic. It was community, and we succeeded. I’m sorry you missed the event, Darien, but we will definitely hold it again.
Like Ina Centaur, I only discovered this great initiative on the SL Login Screen today…
Best Wishes, its awesome! The blogosphere of SL users is really valuable and I learn most of my SL lessons from conversations between bloggers… so this makes so much sense…
Gosh. Vint’s Site is on my RSS list and I still missed it. Na, next time Munich in SL will be part of it :) Prost!
I only found out about this on the SL login screen yesterday. Dang! I would have participated had I known soooner. :-(
I was so excited to see this promoted on the SL login screen! I’m assuming that credit for that goes to Torley?!
Next time, we need to promote it on the SL login screen DURING the sign-up period, so more people get a chance to participate and don’t feel left out.
Princess Ivory
(PS - Vint, I guess the way I keep referring to “we” in everything I write about this means you can put me on the list to help coordinate the next Mix’n Match!)
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Why have I only found this now on 16th November? Sigh
All is not lost, however, as I have found some more SL blogs to read over my coffee
1. Blog: http://imohax.com
2. Blogger: Mo Hax
3. Mail: imohax am at g mail dot com
4. Subject: Tips, tutorials and general stuff about life and contributing as an avatar in Second Life, OpenSim, and other virtual worlds. Includes ‘Hey Avatar’ beginner video tutorial series and upcoming ‘Alright Av’ intermediary series. Also video tutorials about setting running OpenSim to preview content and even let school age children try their hand at terraforming and creating with their own home sim.
Mr Hax, interesting subject - and fun name, btw! - but errr… we’re quite almost finished playing this SL bloggers mix’n match. Take a look at all the entries here. But of course, we’ll be harvesting emails & bloggers from these comments next time we play, so rest assure we’ll notify you! ;)
Eeer, huh? on second check, you just gave a description of your own blog? quite… out of the orindary. I suggest you read the rules - and deadlines - again, and then decide if you want to play next round! ;)
Sorry missed the ‘assigned mission part’ as well as the deadline. Late recommendation email to join, arg. Feel free to delete my comment entry if you like. Sorry.
Care to comment?