I am sleepy. I had a blog once where all my posts started with this sentence. Not because I planned it, but because I was actually sleepy every time I wrote on it. That was a long time ago. I might write more about this experience one day. When I talk about it, people say I could be a case study.
Anyways, today I had an urge to write a long entry that I didn't write about Second Life. I haven't writen more here about it, but I kept thinking about it, and reading and researching. Haven't reached a conclusion yet, but I believe I'm on my way.
hdhd had an interesting post on his blog today. Not something new, it's actually a quote from a book by Yochai Benkler, but it fascinated me by the simplicity and clarity of the way the author managed to express a complex concept. Have a look there.
(Just a though: Hernani uses Drupal on his website. I feel bad. I could install one in my server, but for some reason, I just feel that it's lonelier to be in your own domain and not in a community, like Blogger. Although, Adolfo said WordPress is far better then Blogger. Hn. I don't know. I just feel like having it in my own server. Even if my last experience with that was horrible: I had all my TCC (the end of course monograph) in a wiki, fabulous experience, and it crashed, and it's all lost. Oh well).
Anyways. Today was a day of long talks about Life, the Universe and Everything. I am tired, tomorrow Madrid, for the first time. My hostess said it's 0.5 Celsious there. My mother laugh and said she had never heard that there could be a .5 temperature.
Showing posts with label second life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label second life. Show all posts
2007-01-23
Get a first life
What really makes me think about the importance of Second Life is the amount of people saying that it has no importance, or that it is dangerous, or that it's not inovative...
Another critic>
Get a First Life:
Get a First Life:
2007-01-02
Mais Second Life
Claro, como boa obsessiva que sou, apesar de estar trabalhando, também estou aqui lendo sobre Second Life. (Depois de ter ficado até tarde conversando com a Ana sobre o tema...)
E meu sentimento contínua ambíguo: não gosto dessa sensação de que se transporta a riqueza da vida real para a vida virtual. Não tenho certeza, na verdade, se poderia ser diferente, mas seria bom se fosse, não? Mesmo quando eu jogava Diablo, de alguma forma, existia essa transferência, apesar de existir formas de se ser "rico" no jogo, sem se ser rico na vida real. Me explico: se você tivesse dinheiro, podia ir no Ebay e comprar um item, comprar mesmo, pagando por ele. OU você podia passar horas jogando, desenvolver estratégias, e ter esses mesmos ítens, e até mesmo vendê-los. No Second Life funciona mais ou menos assim também: você pode ganhar dinheiro online (trabalhando, I suppose), ou então "comprá-lo", com dólares. Quem está ganhando, claro, é o tal do Linden Lab: acabei de descobrir que para registrar um casamento, paga-se 10 L$. Ok, é quase nada, mas ainda assim... Não sei. Claro, a solução seria buscar uma alternativa, mas existe algo no Second Life que chama muito a atenção... e, se minha intuição não falha, vai virar moda no BR, principalmente depois de lançada a versão em português...
E meu sentimento contínua ambíguo: não gosto dessa sensação de que se transporta a riqueza da vida real para a vida virtual. Não tenho certeza, na verdade, se poderia ser diferente, mas seria bom se fosse, não? Mesmo quando eu jogava Diablo, de alguma forma, existia essa transferência, apesar de existir formas de se ser "rico" no jogo, sem se ser rico na vida real. Me explico: se você tivesse dinheiro, podia ir no Ebay e comprar um item, comprar mesmo, pagando por ele. OU você podia passar horas jogando, desenvolver estratégias, e ter esses mesmos ítens, e até mesmo vendê-los. No Second Life funciona mais ou menos assim também: você pode ganhar dinheiro online (trabalhando, I suppose), ou então "comprá-lo", com dólares. Quem está ganhando, claro, é o tal do Linden Lab: acabei de descobrir que para registrar um casamento, paga-se 10 L$. Ok, é quase nada, mas ainda assim... Não sei. Claro, a solução seria buscar uma alternativa, mas existe algo no Second Life que chama muito a atenção... e, se minha intuição não falha, vai virar moda no BR, principalmente depois de lançada a versão em português...
2007-01-01
Second Life
I am going to write about this in English because it's being primarily an English experience, at least until now: Second Life, as far as I know, has not been translated into any other language, but I might be completely wrong about this. Fact is: everybody I met there until now was speaking English. It means something, doesn't it?
I created an account there because of a comment someone of the Onlife Facilitation discussion list made, about technics on facilitating interactions with avatar use. Naturally, I did not go there only because of the facilitating issue, but also because I am always curious about new ways of interacting on the net (the more you know about it, the more you can explore for important uses, such as learning and creating communities).
Well, until now, all I have done was building up my character and the feeling I got was much more of a visual chat then anything else. AND, also, it scared me a bit the fact that the monetary thing is so important there: there are people making money In-world, as they call it.
But, let's see how it goes. There were other similarly virtual worlds, but Second Life caught my eye, and I will give it a try.
I created an account there because of a comment someone of the Onlife Facilitation discussion list made, about technics on facilitating interactions with avatar use. Naturally, I did not go there only because of the facilitating issue, but also because I am always curious about new ways of interacting on the net (the more you know about it, the more you can explore for important uses, such as learning and creating communities).
Well, until now, all I have done was building up my character and the feeling I got was much more of a visual chat then anything else. AND, also, it scared me a bit the fact that the monetary thing is so important there: there are people making money In-world, as they call it.
But, let's see how it goes. There were other similarly virtual worlds, but Second Life caught my eye, and I will give it a try.
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