http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uYBTDacNE0I

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uYBTDacNE0I

If I ran a business and I thought that perhaps I could do something online rather than run a newspaper ad, I think I’d be saving money choosing SL over the newspapers which people are only going to toss out.

I really disagree with you.

Staff? Get some volunteers, hell, we made Eragon ourselves.

Wolfie!

Afterall, look at all the blogs out there, there’s a lot of noise, is anyone paying attention?

I tend to be more concerned with wasteful fashion mags, do we really need fifty magazines advertising lippy and who Tom Cruise might be sleeping with?

The only trouble with ABC Island is that we’ve been sitting on the yellow light for a long time, if we get a green light, we can really turn it into something.

It’s not all about charters, it’s sometimes got to do with perks… friends are perks.

Wolfie!

Really, there’s only a waste if the simulation is run lackadaisical. But I firmly believe that if a company wishes to get into SL, the should really research as to what they want to do.

My though on SBS (knowing the stuff I do) is to pretty much use it as a showcase for cultural diversity within Australia, as perhaps have something like a Tribeca/Sundace Film Festival within SL.

a. There are plenty of sandboxes in SL already. The Australian tax-payers shouldn’t be asked to fund another one let alone two.

b. I checked the charters for both the ABC and SBS and I failed to see any sign that making heaps of friends was included as a core function.

I don’t have a problem with either broadcasters being in SL if they have a reason to be there, and there are lots of reasons for them to be there. Unfortunately, if all they have to offer is another tax-payer funded sandbox then I for one believe it is a colossal waste of money – especially at a time where funding has been repeatedly slashed – and I believe the Australian public and parliament would agree with me.

Last night on Media Watch [ABC] they were talking about how Newspapers are winding down because a lot of people, especially younger people, would rather read news items online than in print. it’s only a matter of time till certain publications vanish altogether… at least in print form.

The music business was hit hard, mainly because they were unprepared, but TV Networks have a chance to experiment and see what works and what doesn’t.

I don’t mind if they try Secondlife, it might and might not work… and it’s a relatively cheap project, I’ve seen much larger wastes of taxpayers money foistered on us by Government.

One of these days we’ll be watching most of our news and entertainment online, it makes sense, if we have free time *now* and can watch it *now* then regular TV pales into the background.

Secondlife may not provide that possibility right now, but who knows what things will be like down the track?

In the meantime you have communities of people meeting, getting to know each other and forming real life friendships.

I can’t see anything wrong with that.

I’ve made a heap of friends because someone at ABC decided to come into SL and plonk down an island, I’m sure others have felt the benefit.

How can that be a waste of money, even if the Island is just a “Sandbox”?

Wolfie!