SL itself is much more varied and deep and fascinating than I ever expected it would be, and I hope Linden Labs flourishes for decades to come and that Rosedale & Company get filthy rich and enjoy First AND Second lives of luxury and joy, hurrah, hurrah. But what’s most often seen on that video stream right now? As opposed to the actual wonders of SL, it’s embarrassing. At times, it’s fucking pathetic.

I, too, think a roaming avatar with a camera — covering specific newsworthy events as they happen — kind of like Hamlet Linden, but with Live! Streaming! Video! — I think that would work best.

I’d be glad if the editorial direction were in the hands of the Lindens, and even glad if the resultant video, streaming or recorded, were used as a marketing tool; just, please, get that currently static, unfiltered, cretin-mongering camera off the air?

Thank you,

~ Memory

I do hope the Lindens don’t cramp the flow of creativity with more of their forums-like censorship on this marvelous two-way portal that SNOOPY is all excited about. People often get very excited about the Internet and its wonders…but, at the end of the day, you have to sit in RL for 90 minutes just outside the GW Bridge as a million trucks carrying all that stuff people ordered off the Internet try to lumber across the Hudson River. Honestly, sometimes it’s all smoke and mirrors.

My “critical” analysis is related to post #10 above … hardly academic, but a gut analysis none the less on the use of the word profound to describe whooting av’s waving their virtual fingers in Video Lindens lens.

ie: analysis==> b : clarification of an expression by an elucidation of its use in discourse

pro·found Pronunciation (pr-found, pr-)
adj. pro·found·er, pro·found·est
1. Situated at, extending to, or coming from a great depth; deep.
2. Coming as if from the depths of one’s being: profound contempt.
3. Thoroughgoing; far-reaching: profound social changes.
4. Penetrating beyond what is superficial or obvious: a profound insight.
5. Unqualified; absolute: a profound silence.

I have nothing against Streaming Video from inworld per se and think it’s a good thing…when they finally figure out that it’s actually a camera that needs to be directed by a brain in order to feed good vision down the pipe…ie: to really distribute profound content.

I’m not against advertising and the reality is it’s a necessary cost of doing biz if you wish to reach markets.

What am I against really?

BS, cos we’re drowning in it…

More importantly, I fail to see how anything you have written is a ‘critical analysis.’ I have only seen your opinion, which is very critical but hardly an analysis. Not that I have done otherwise, but you were the one going on about an analysis. Here is the definition of analysis:

Main Entry: anal·y·sis
Pronunciation: &-’na-l&-s&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural anal·y·ses /-”sEz/
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, from analyein to break up, from ana- + lyein to loosen — more at LOSE
1 : separation of a whole into its component parts
2 a : the identification or separation of ingredients of a substance b : a statement of the constituents of a mixture
3 a : proof of a mathematical proposition by assuming the result and deducing a valid statement by a series of reversible steps b (1) : a branch of mathematics concerned mainly with functions and limits (2) : CALCULUS 1b
4 a : an examination of a complex, its elements, and their relations b : a statement of such an analysis
5 a : a method in philosophy of resolving complex expressions into simpler or more basic ones b : clarification of an expression by an elucidation of its use in discourse
6 : the use of function words instead of inflectional forms as a characteristic device of a language

You have certainly broken it down into one ingredient but I just don’t believe it is that simple. I took time after reading your comment before posting to think about what you’re saying. Although I think you are missing something I do believe you have a point but the way you have articulated it just doesn’t sound like a critical analysis to me. Is it really completely unecessary to advertise your product to potential customers? Is streaming video on their webpage really BS? I mean, its not like millions around the world are getting spam emails or t.v. commercials outlining the life altering experience of SL and how they will find Jesus or something. It just doesn’t sound like you considered any of the implications involved nor the perspective of a potential customer.

Simply put again, I am not a resident and at the very point where I found about SL I wanted to see a video from in-world. To check out the graphics, the gameplay and the creative works contained there in. If I had a system capable of running SL at the time this would have been the exact thing I needed to make the decision to download and start playing. I watched it for a minute when it started and in that minute all of the things I mentioned where illustrated for me. So wouldn’t that make an argument for it being useful in some way? Am I missing something here?

But to answer your q:
>>what (sic) do I care?

Needless marketing hype, drivel, and BS.
If LL adds new features they should be more intelligent in the way they spin it. We seem to have learnt nothing from the tech wreck 2000 and BS futurist fanboys/girls crap on without any form of solid critical analysis.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691122946/103-4243181-6111848?v=glance

Bollocks!

Look, it’s just a video stream from a content feed. Live, dead, SL or FL…Big deal. Watching paint dry is as dull in SL as in FL…unless that happens to be your fetish, I suppose.

It’s not a first (so cut the BS on that one) and won’t be the last, and more games/platforms will do it….just so long as we don’t hear a lot of crap about profound compelling content when all they are doing is the virtual clone of “beach cam” or “Kate’s bedroom”.

Maybe prok has a point about the lengths people go to ingratiate themselves with the “lindens”…even to the extent of blathering on about nothing of value.

I wonder when we will see SNN? I…can’t …. wait….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I totally agree that it should not just be a fixed position. Despite concerns of content control, the camera should have a variety of director styles like following an avi, as well as free roaming and even special event coverage. On machinima.com someone had mentioned that SL, in regards to machinemation, had limited options for precise camera control and I said “you know someone, probably 5 or more someones, is working on this already” and sure enough I was right. No doubt that the streaming video will be further developed by LL in the future.

“>>How many other games do this?
hmmm….ever hear of UnrealTV?”
Comment by Joe Public

Yes I have and you only proved my point. There is only one other (that I know of) and it is infinately less unique than SL. UnrealTV allows viewers to watch games being played, which arguably is not more exciting than the current state of SLTV, but in coming months I am sure SLTV will be notably more interesting.

I find it interesting how agro people are about who already play the game. If I could play I would be in SL rather than writing comments and bitching about something that has little or no impact on me. SL video stream serves one basic purpose, to show potential residents that it is real. It is a commercial to get more customers, so why would existing customers be so upset? To my knowledge it will not effect lag times, membership fees etc. except by introducing more residents but that is inevitable! Don’t get me wrong, debate is great, but if I were able to I would be in SL right now! Anyone want to trade systems? My setup is perfect for bitching about stuff! =)

Moon landings and alien invasions, I tell you!