Post Those SLurlMarkers!
There’s a new feature on 3pointD as of this morning: I’m now grabbing a feed of the latest SlurlMarkers in the right sidebar, just below the SlurlPane. What’s a SLurlMarker? It’s basically a link to a Second Life location that’s stored in del.icio.us after having been created from within SL using the cool SLurlMarker HUD created by SL scripters Cienna Rand, Epitaxial Playfair and Arito Cotton. You can search del.icio.us for the “SLurlMarker” tag to see all the SLurlMarkers that have been made already. I’m only grabbing the last two SLurlMarkers that have been posted at the moment, though I’ll probably expand that to 4-6 after I re-arrange some elements here on the site. (I almost need a separate 3pointD resources page, don’t I?) So this is my bid to get more people making SLurlMarkers. You can pick up the HUD in the Taco sim, I think. It’s a really cool way to let people know about interesting things you trip over in SL, but I don’t get the impression that all that many people are taking advantage of it. So check out the latest SLurlMarkers in the sidebar, grab a HUD, and get to marking. Markering. Whatever.
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I haven’t tried the one made by Cienna et. al. but Ordinal Malaprop has one that is totally for dummies. You drag her Slurlchatter on to yourself from inventory and it puts the word SLURL in big letters on the top of your screen. When you get to a location you like, you press on those big letters and it creates the SLURL for you in chat history. You cut and paste right into your delicious page. I have to say that the tagging in delicious, and the whole delicious Wikipedia/Google thing (which I am now calling Impedia for short) is something I don’t like. It lets all kinds of stuff get to the top, just because. Like, geez, somebody has put an adult no-tell motel in the spot now and here it is on 3pointd.com.
I want to take this opportunity also to note that the entire coverage of “resident blogs” organized by Pathfinder on the official secondlife.com website with this delicious stuff has created a horribly skewed output. Supposedly, only new blogs come to the top — but of course, it’s the same old ones with new pages or sections resaved. Whoever can keep getting their blog “saved” keeps going up to the top, you don’t even have alphabetical order in order to just find a blog you’ve heard about and want to find the link to, you have to search through endless delicious pages. Furthermore, the tags Pathfinder has put up for delicious are too vague and broad — there’s just “blogs” for example as a giant category. No “politics” or “cartoons” etc.
I really long for a full, alphabetical, normal list of blogs related to Second Life which I can peruse without being Shanghaied into Pathfinder’s deliciousness.
Ordinal’s SLURCHATTER can be picked up at her store in Caledon.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon/96/58/25/
haha I love that people are already using the SLurlMarker column here and the service in general as advertising for their rental businesses. Genius.