I was honored to be a recent guest on ScobleShow, the excellent vlogcast of gregarious technology mensch Robert Scoble. We talked all things Second Life over a beer, and when we got through, wound up with an epic 90 minute conversation. I hate watching myself on video, but I enjoyed doing it (Robert's a great interviewer and a lovely host), so hopefully it's a worthwhile introduction to SL. (Regular NWN readers will already be familiar with some of the themes we hit on, but I suspect they'll find some new insights, as well.) It's been edited into four parts:
Me, my book, and working with Linden.
An SL tour, PG vs. Mature, and Tringo.
Poseballs, education, and open sourcing SL.
Tax revolt, relationships, virtual birth, memorials, and more.
If you see me repeating a sentence several times, it's because TV producers have conditioned me into doing that for editing purposes. And if you hear me advising corporations who want to advertise in Second Life to "embrace the penis", well, that's just because they should.
(My dagger-wielding Space Invader T-shirt, by the way, is from Parts and Labour in Austin's South Congress district, an annual stop of mine during SXSW; they sell amazingly cool clothes and accessories from local artists, including several lines of 8 bit T-shirts. On my first visit, one of their designers came into the shop with a baby goat in her handbag, and I've been a loyal customer ever since.)
O_o... well THERE'S one thing SL will never seem to have: pet animals in bags.
Seriously though... 'embrace the penis'? Congratulations, Hamlet, the /b/ are going to swarm all over it. I see ahhboxes with looping video fron the interview bouncing all over the sandboxes. 'embrace the penis' 'embrace the penis' ... Horrible thought
Posted by: Patchouli Woollahra | Monday, May 21, 2007 at 08:36 PM
That was a great interview, light, funny and full with good information.
Tnx
Posted by: Yellow | Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:59 AM