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The Archives
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08.01.10Auntie M’sSo I've just crawled out of the Maine woods. The closest Internet connection was an hour away. But one of the highlights of the trip was breakfast at a little place with grits where the meal choices were defined primarily by how many meats you wanted: "eggs plus one meat, eggs plus two meats"....and it really doesn't get any more retro than that. The fact that the restaurant was called Auntie M's just sort of topped it off. A reminder of the old days. Whether they were entirely good or not I guess is a subjective thing.
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10.07.09Only in Paris: Linden Lab and the Road AheadM in Paris by way of Chez Serge. Seems like every time M hits Paris he spills out a little bit more stuff about where Linden Lab is headed with Second Life. Must be the wine or something, because he always ends up sounding a little more loose lipped than he tends to get this side of the Atlantic. So it was recently when the Lab went hunting for offices in Amsterdam and then popped in for lunch or whatever in Paris. M (or Mark Kingdon as he's know in the atomic world) re-emphasized a few points he brought up at the ...
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10.20.08M Linden Goes to London: Joe the Plumber, and Where We Go is Where We’ll GetM Linden gave the opening keynote in London at the virtual world conference and, well, it's more of the same really, just with a bit more data thrown in, at least according to the summary over on Virtual World News. But just as intriguing, in some ways, was the lead-up TO the keynote, with his last minute post to the Second Life blog, and the community response. And call this a crazy reference from the sidelines of popular political "narrative" (maaaaan how I hate the media's use of that word) but my gut reaction to M's post was, well, what ...
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08.25.08Breakfast with the Lindens Part One: Mark Kingdon on Second LifeNext week the Second Life community will have a chance for breakfast with the Lindens at the SL Community Convention which kind of sounds like what you see on the political scene these days - you know, Hillary tossing back boiler makers with the steel workers or McCain gulping down German sausages or whatever, all so cozy as you get to have coffee with M and Philip, although of course there's a bank of kleig lights just off camera and a bunch of bloggers waiting to parse your every word. So I thought maybe I should avoid the rush and blog ...
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07.27.08Does Second Life Have Feeling? M Linden’s StoriesM Linden has been building up a story for Second Life and whether it's a well planned strategy or whether he's thinking this all up as he goes along, at least he's trying to keep us abreast of his thought process, whether we agree with the details or not (which isn't to deny that we need to get the details right, just to say that I have other things on my mind today). So the story so far is a bit of a 3-step dance between M and Mitch and Philip who probably get together for lunch every now and then, ...
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07.24.08M and His Second Month in Second Life: We Are Really RealM Linden has capped his first two months at Linden Lab with a stunning overview of his thoughts, observations, a bit of rah rah, and a lot of stats and support for his view that perception and reality are perhaps at odds. By perception, I suppose he means the resident community of Second Life, which after months, er, years of being burned - bank closures, age verification, grid instability, concurrency limits, and poor communication. The media, on the other hand, which abandoned SL after the failure of the 'big brands' to make a go of opening poorly designed stores with poorly ...
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06.29.08Setting Strategic Directions: Philip and M Blog WatchAn update of my countdown from the last words of wisdom from Philip and M. Sorry, but those speeches at the birthday celebrations do NOT count - we're no longer burning down discos to make way for houses (or better discos), we're burning them down because there seems increasingly little point in keeping them up. PHILIP ROSEDALE: LAST POSTED to the SL Blog: November 21st, 2007 NUMBER OF DAYS SINCE LAST POST:239 DAYS Notable Quote: "we need to create new and different ways to communicate more often and more clearly with the community. "For my part, I will start writing monthly blog posts like this ...
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06.18.08Second Life Ticker: We WaitWith the latest confusion and discussion about DMCA issues I got to thinking: what happened to M? For that matter, what happened to Philip? So I thought maybe a little useful counter might be in order of when they were last seen on that brilliant piece of community outreach, the SL blog. PHILIP ROSEDALE: LAST POSTED to the SL Blog: November 21st, 2007 NUMBER OF DAYS SINCE LAST POST:229 DAYS Notable Quote: "we need to create new and different ways to communicate more often and more clearly with the community. "For my part, I will start writing monthly blog posts like this to let you know ...
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05.29.08Lessons in Community Relations from Within the LabAll Hail M Linden who blogged about his first week, brown bag lunches, and sitting beside a rabbit at the staff town hall. As M said, "As I start my second week, I can happily say I have a sense of what makes Linden Lab and indeed Second Life such a magical place. It’s people with passion for the virtual world. And, it all starts with the Resident community. Thank you for a wondrous first week!" And how wonderful to see that one the same day as his in-world staff meeting that the coders in the Lab were upholding their high standards ...
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