Two major flaws with Linden Lab’s final mesh rollout:

1.) Nobody is able to see it except those sadomasochistic enough to suffer through Viewer 3.
2.) The new “prim cost” calculation makes no sense. Why do bigger prims cost more than smaller ones? Why do regular prims cost many times more when linked to mesh prims? Absolutely absurd.

I’m already seeing a few froth-flecked lips out there, people claiming that Mesh will ruin Second Life.

I know a bit about the topic, enough to see how Mesh can improve some products. If you’re making good sculpts, Mesh will make some things easier. You’ll find it easier to make good textures if you put a bit of effort into the mesh.

It would be so frightfully easy to read the rants as meaning “I don’t understand Mesh and it will put me out of business as a content creator”. But that would be so vulgar an interpretation.

Linden Lab could have done a better job of announcing that the default viewer download is now Mesh-capable. It looks usable, but it doesn’t really improve on Viewer 2.

A worthy place to catch the e-aids m’dear.

Bet them boys didn’t shower for a week! Phew!

WHAT: Avatar Identity: Privacy and Transparency in Social Media
WHEN: Sunday, August 14th, 2:30pm SLT, One Hour
WHO: Ron T Blechner (SL: Hiro Pendragon), Pixeleen Mistral
WHERE:
SL URL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SLCC%201/155/119/23
Ustream URL: http://www.ustream.tv/user/slcc2

http://schedule.slconvention.org/?s=pixeleen
Anonymous participation in social web, both 2-D and 3-D, has long been a point of debate. Recently avatar identity, especially used as pseudonyms in social media sites, has been a hot button issue with the rise of Google Plus and with ongoing enforcement on Facebook. How do we balance between security and protection from fraud or harassment, and keeping user privacy and letting users expose only the parts of their identity that they choose to share?

http://news.yahoo.com/idaho-police-tell-man-stop-wearing-bunny-suit-203004132.html

Well here’s an important point. We have to differentiate between anonymity from other users and anonymity from the system itself.

Even if Google+ allows pseudonymous accounts such as avatar names, they’ll still likely require meatlife details behind the scenes. Other users might then not know who Hobo Kelly or Senban Babii are but Google+ would. But a crackdown on identity like this will likely give rise to a small increase in identity theft or at least identity borrowing.

They should! I’m sick of neko always being excluded from these events because the organisers can’t provide appropriate hygiene items for all their customers.

Not that I need a tail net anyway, I’m clean and well-groomed. I wash my tail twice a day. The fact that I wash it with spit from my tongue is neither here nor there.