A Half Century of SecondCast
Only cricket fans will realize that I don’t mean 50 years here, I mean 50 episodes. That’s right, the 50th episode of SecondCast, Second Life’s favorite podcast, is now on the air. We’ll pass our one-year anniversary sometime in February, which means we’ve been keeping up a remarkably good schedule of almost a podcast a week. Once again, kudos to Johnny Ming for pulling it all together and keeping us in line. Tune in to Episode #50 for a long discussion with Aerdr1e Fabre of Second Life matchmaking service Tea and Sympathy (which can be found in the »Infamy region« of SL (in a skybox, natch), and hear what Cristiano’s looking for in a mate. And despite the fact that I’ve been having Skype problems lately (grrr), downloads are apparently higher than ever, currently running at something in the low five figures per episode. Wow. Nice to know that someone other than ourselves is enjoying what we’re up to. Special thanks to Matthew in Georgia for the extra cool illustration he sent along to celebrate Episode #50 — and for continuing to listen despite the fact that he hasn’t used Second Life in months! Interesting.
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Second Caste isn’t my favourite by a long shot. I know others find it sophomoric and even cruel. It’s very one-sided and very narrow-cast as it rarely goes from A beyond B in its take on any given subject. It’s heavily filtered through the FIC types anchoring it. Except for you, Walker, these people have minimized the seriousness of RL stalking and SL harassment of me. I’m waiting for the competition to come along, and it can’t come quick enough.
I wish Uri and Pixeleen and others at the Herald had the time for a podcast. We need more coverage of SL from different perspectives instead of giving big business and their metaversal sponsors media concentration in our virtual world.
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