CONVENTIONAL BLOGGING

For two years running, first in downtown Manhattan, and this year at Fort Mason in San Francisco, The Second Life Community Convention has been the ultimate mixed reality event, bringing together SL Residents and the once-surprising number of investors, companies, and mainstream media reporters who want a piece of the SL action.  Brainchild of real life couple FlipperPA and Jennyfur Peregrine (above), it was also the event where I realized I should take time away from reporting on SL strictly in avatar form, and devote some space to covering its burgeoning real world components.  This year, I did so here, and here, and here's a thumbnail of SLCC 2006 I recently wrote for an arts magazine:

There’s a woman in a lycra body suit and nine inch claws protruding from her gloves; there’s a lankily handsome Parisian photographer who flew straight to California from France for the occasion; there are multimedia artists, DJs, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, and entrepreneurs with fresh deals from the likes of Adidas and Toyota to create versions of their products, even though they have the slight drawback of not actually existing.  There are at least a couple federal government officials, plenty of academic types, and rocket scientists from several aerospace companies; there’s also a man with dark glasses, a shaved skull, and a Southern drawl who cheerfully announces, at the beginning of his talk, “My name is Stroker Serpentine, and I’m a pervert.”

Which is a roundabout way of introducing a new blog, conveniently dubbed Official SLCC Blog.  It's the core resource for the upcoming SLCC 2007, and right now, the best place to review SLCC 2006, with videos from the convention, and interesting summaries of an attendee survey.  (Strikingly, for example, most of the SLCC conventioneers who took the survey had a strongly negative reaction to the "RL Businesses in SL" panel, while "Building Your Brand and Marketing" panel garnered a positive reception.) 

Comments

[Jennyfur]

Thanks Hamlet!