The Second Life Media Consortium

Group invite of the day:

Katt Linden has invited you to join a group: Second Life Media Consortium: Linden Lab Official Press Conferences and Announcements. Consortium off in-world media and bloggers for better communication of news and information from Second Life.

Of course I pressed ‘Yes!’, but then… “You are a member of too many groups to join another one.” So I left BlogHer. Be it I were my normal critical self, I would have responded with ‘please use a subscriber list’ or ‘can you send that invitation to my secretary-alt, I suffer from a serious case of Group Overdosis’. But I’m tired - of it all - and hope this initiative by Katt Linden will make a difference, so I sacrificed another group. Just one question though: this will hopefully help Linden Lab to better communicate towards us, but we were already listening and can read (the main blog). The real question is, how do the residents/customers/creators get to communicate to Linden Lab?’

For now:

76 members
Free to join (just search for ‘Second Life Media Consortium’ in groups)
First thing scheduled: Press briefing with Robin Linden and Everett Linden about that $10,000 USD (paid in $L)

Tags: linden lab, media, second life

3 Responses to “The Second Life Media Consortium”

Saffia Widdershins wrote a comment on November 12, 2008

I got that invite too. And joined.

I’m not sure whether it’s for Prim Perfect, or my recent blog posts. I’ll try to make the meeting (it’s only 12.30am for me, which I can JUST about do).

I’ve already posted a comment on my concern about the prize - http://primperfectblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/tread-softly-because-you-tread-on-my-dreams/

Vint Falken wrote a comment on November 12, 2008

I agree with Crap: give it to Rik and the Global Kids. Let’s get it over it. I honestly am not excited. :/

river Ely wrote a comment on November 12, 2008

Linden Labs are simply asking the users to create their income pathway for the future. They have no direction so are tasking you and I to give them and their business a sense of purpose that will create their income stream for themselves.

They feel we are sufficiently gullible to tell them how to turn their product into the big money. After all, many many contents creators, realtors, party organizers, builders, bankers and inventors have been turning their little business’s into real dollars for the last few years, and because Lindens don’t tax those sales, they have been missing out on the income.

Now, they have no clue how to grow their business, so they turn to their hard suffering residents, and as a joke, offer squillions on linden bucks as a meaningless carrot. Where is it going to be spent, with land prices tumbling as islands are getting turned off by the dozen per day, and a falling Linden Dollar Value to the USD. The winner will take weeks cashing out their winning, as the transaction limit will preclude it, and the value of the Linden Buck will follow its own market trend of collapsing. The Lindens will, however tax that conversion to USD thus ensuring your prize, is not quite as rosy it seems. It’s not a paradox, it’s more a last ditch desperate attempt to gain credulity.

We have been suggesting good things to do in SL for years and they have hardly ever listened to us, now we are leaving in drove for Open Life Grids and other sims, they are asking “What can we do”? It’s too little, too late.

I see the only way for Linden labs to survive is to meet other real world challenges head on for once, and instead of adding more gizmo’s and gadgets.

River Ely

Rivers Blog: -
http://rivers-rock.blogspot.com/2008/11/linden-labs-loses-direction.html

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