Finall! A Reality Check Comes from the MSM
by Urizenus Sklar on 24/10/06 at 4:46 pm
Mark Glaser of PBS has finally tapped the brakes on what has been the unrelenting hyperventilation about Second Life by the Mainstream Media. Kudos to Tony Walsh, whose calls for reflection seem to have caught Glaser’s attention. My favorite remarks by Glaser were the one’s reserved for Business Week:
BusinessWeek, rather than set up its own virtual building or bureau in Second Life, chose the easier route of just hyping the entry of media companies into the game, with little criticism or thoughtful reporting. In fact, the photo essay accompanying the story online might as well be a series of ads for the companies that have set up shop in SL.
Maybe our reality therapy will work after all. May I suggest three meetings a week however?
Jerry Paffendorf/SNOOPYbrown Zamboni
Oct 24th, 2006
Uri > Mark Glaser of PBS has finally tapped the brakes on what has been the unrelenting hyperventilation about Second Life by the Mainstream Media.
Mark Glaser > While I haven’t checked out Second Life first-hand yet, I have played many of the percursors to it such as Ultima Online and AlphaWorld in the mid-’90s.
Yay! Brakes! A few more of these and we’ll have ground ourselves to a hault! Pretty bad article, man. I know what you mean about hype, but hype that breaks people out of set ideas when things are changing can be healthy. Mark just proudly frames SL as an imaginary game and puts people back to bed. Zap the fluff off the boosters and the haters and he’s the one missing the big picture.
Urizenus
Oct 24th, 2006
Darwin spent 10 years studying barnacles while his draft of the Origin of the Species sat locked in a drawer. Sometimes it pays to get the little things right before you start hyping yourself.
Prokofy Neva
Oct 24th, 2006
SnoopyB, are you so easily halted?
Most of the hype is about pumping up aging rust-belt industries, has-been 80s stars, failed presidential candidates, dinosaur old media companies, and is taking place in mainstream media that itself is panicked about its loss of advertising sales. Seems like in fact like a lot of old thinking about keeping alive a lot of old thinking. Where’s the new stuff? Seriously. I’ve responded to his article in the way I think you need to — acknowledge his puncturing of the hype, affirm SL as a revolution cool thing but don’t have illusions. It’s going to take longer and not go as you planned. That’s a good thing.
max headroom
Oct 24th, 2006
ah..jeffry!
out of the mouths of babes….
“A few more of these and we’ll have ground ourselves to a hault!”
It seems the prime requirement for being a futurist [or Technology Evangelist] is to act like a 10 year old at Toys’R'us, running around the aisles all jazzed up on red cordial pointing out the latest toys to mom. Except if this case it’s the Toy’r'underDevelopment store round the back, little fella. Any monkey can do that.
AS IF a little reality check will stop anything. I’d say you are completely cluesless, except for the fact you definately have the fine art of networking and self-promotion down!
Jerry Paffendorf/SNOOPYbrown Zamboni
Oct 26th, 2006
Prok > SnoopyB, are you so easily halted?
Ne-var! You know what I mean in the comment, kind of a joke. The Secondcast podcast about all this this is up on secondcast.com.
Max Headroom > ah..jeffry!
It’s Jerry
. As Method Man would say, “Say what you like/ Just spell my name right.”
The children are the future and Wu Tang is for the babies.