Comments on: Philip Rosedale’s Second Round: Second Life is a Terrarium, Interview with New York Times

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Quick Quote: Philipism

Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Quick Quote: Philipism — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:20:34 +0000

[...] “Second Life is a Terrarium” and Second Life business meetings are better than real ones because you can wear a funny hat. [...]

By: Philip Rosedale erklärt Second Life | Cyberwelten

Philip Rosedale erklärt Second Life | Cyberwelten — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:58:18 +0000

[...] 03.08.08: Philip Rosedale’s Second Round: Second Life is a Terrarium, Interview with New York Times [...]

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Don’t Worry, Says Philip Rosedale: “There’s No Eye Contact in Second Life”

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:05:37 +0000

[...] Now, I’ll give Philip a little more credit. But this interview comes on the heels of a TechCrunch interview where in explaining why the 3D properties of Second Life are important he compared it to Warcraft, and then followed it up by telling the New York Times that Second Life is a terrarium. [...]

By: Alberik Rotaru

Alberik Rotaru — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:35:15 +0000

SL appears to be suffering another major borkage, although as usual there’s no in-world announcement. I guess this means one of the Linden troika will soon make a speech from the Gate of Heavenly Lag on how ‘Second Life is like a box of chocolates’.

By: Pais Kidd

Pais Kidd — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:06:35 +0000

‘Dusanian’ cracks me up. Adverb: ‘Dusanily’

I used to make terrariums when I was a kid. Often turned fetid and fecund. Very hard to get a balance of nature that could exist without dramatic adjustments. So, sadly, probably more true than he meant.

In such a curse of “may you live in interesting times” mode, what popped in my mind was ‘crucible’

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » User Interface Design Contest: Towards a Winner

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:49:43 +0000

[...] most thoughtful and dedicated communities in the world today. Philip can call this community a terrarium if he wants, I suppose he means the same thing. I’d call it one of the deepest potential [...]

By: Alberik Rotaru

Alberik Rotaru — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:02:12 +0000

Phil. Do you see yonder cloud that ’s almost in shape of a camel?
Mitch. By the mass, and ’t is like a camel, indeed.
Phil. Methinks it is like a weasel.
Miych. It is backed like a weasel.
Phil. Or like a whale?
Mitch. Very like a whale.

By: Dusan

Dusan — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:13:58 +0000

Did you just turn me into an adjective?

And I agree, neither Warcraft nor terrariums quite fire up my imagination.

I want a tag line like “My God, it’s full of stars.”

By: Alberik Rotaru

Alberik Rotaru — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:51:11 +0000

Linden Lab urgently needs to hire a new metaphors adviser. Just about every terrarium I’ve ever laid eyes on was a fairly sad object to gaze upon. The company does not need to keep producing these absurd metaphors which are almost invariably not faithful images anyway. The company needs a roadmap, a vision in the Dusanian sense of the word, and then the company needs to work on its execution.