My condolencies. Of course, my sentiment would appear more realistic were you to view it at 1080i.

...and it would have no spelling errors.

Congratulations on being named a finalist as well. I suppose I could have been as just as classless and blogged disparagingly about the company I was among in the finals, but that would have reflected as poorly on me as your post reflects upon yourself.

Oh, fuck off, Kiwini. I'm sure the SL entry was perfectly well designed and executed, as these things go. And I have acknowledged the worth of my fellow competitors elsewhere.

There's no rule of etiquette mandating that I pretend Second Life is anything other than utterly pointless, hype-driven technology. It's practically a punchline at this point: need to do something online that clueless reporters will consider innovative? Do it in Second Life!

Lolz

er... well, yes, that is...

No, I actually do think that the Front National story is pretty interesting (the Edwards campaign HQ defacement, too). But that's because it speaks to real people doing real things in SL. The sad truth is that there are surprisingly few of these incidents, and very little evidence that it's particularly *good* for anything. It's not easier to navigate, it's not better for disseminating information, it's not better for designing stuff, it's not a real economy (since copybot)... It's good for tearing down others' pointless PR exercises, but that's about it.

I think that the pace of growth in the web 2.0 world required a new emerging technology for people to be excited about, and SL benefited from that. But now we have Twitter, which is at least marginally useful.