New news mashup aggregator Virtual.AllTop.Com

My Second Life, This Website, Social Networking, Web 2.0 — CodeBastard Redgrave on May 3, 2008 at 1:03 am

This is a really interesting concept. Simple, clean, efficient way to read all your favorite news in a single mouseover. Alltop aggregates the last 5 entries of all interesting blogs/news outlets for a single subject. In the case that is of interest to me it’s called http://virtual.alltop.com.

A few things makes it different. It comes with all interesting feeds, mostly selected by AllTop.Com staff themselves. Then you can remove the feeds that are no interest to you. With what remains, a simple mouseover lets you overview the news quite nicely. Click it and you get the news directly from the blogger’s mouth.
Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist of AllTop.Com, and avid Twiteroo, my feed is now on this website. It now replaced my default page on my SL dedicated machine.

Trademark Wars: Bloggers 1, Lindens 0

My Second Life, This Website, My Friends, Social Networking, Linden Labs, Causes — CodeBastard Redgrave on April 28, 2008 at 2:52 am

Yes, bloggers won round one. Not a huge victory but we got the much needed clarifications. As someone with a lifelong tradition of activism, having gone on several strikes (especially student ones), small victories are big victories when it comes to support our troops. Yes, we may not be happy about the content of those clarifications, but that’s what we asked for, and we got it. We can only congratulate ourselves, we did the impossible: make the Lindens listen to us. Now, forward to the next step in the battle.
As much as I’m a Linden fangirl, I’m also a very active SL socialite. I can see popular support for Linden Lab declining, following a few of their legal decisions in the last year.

I am still not going to comply to that policy until I get a letter from the Lindens. I’m not that much affected by the policy itself. But I still feel much for bloggers that must make their domain name comply.

One of the best roundup about the case IMOHO is by lurvely Cuddlefish Jacek Antonelli, speaking about it here. Many bloggers are rightfully angry about the Linden’s vague threat of banhammer for those who would ultimately not comply. As Jacek stated tho, they cannot substitute to the law.

I think to add to the ambient climate of anger is that since about 2 months, the grid is down not only everyday, but several times a day. We now have 3 waves of peak concurrency a day instead of 1, and the poor asset servers are suffering much strain.
Lindens, I ♥♥♥ you guys. But you seriously need to get your game together, get better legal counseling and maybe stabilize this grid we ♥♥♥ so much. You may be calling yourself a gaming company, but as Phil said, you guys are building a country. You are no ordinary service provider, despite what some thinks about it.

We create this world. We populate it. We are no ordinary customers, we are residents. More than that, we are citizens. We support you for making this world possible. But remember who makes you grow, and don’t bite the hands that feeds you. That means, us all.

Ana Lutetia can has a new blog

My Second Life, This Website, My Friends, Social Networking, Fashion — CodeBastard Redgrave on March 7, 2008 at 7:17 am

My sweet friend Ana Lutetia was working a lot on her new blog lately, so she finally got her own domain name and started the real deal. Congrats to you, Ana.

I would like to add that Ana worked on an insanely good weblinks and SLURL lists pointing to a huge amount of very useful resources. Be sure to scour it and enjoy.

SecondLife URL List: http://analutetia.com/links/

SecondLife SLURL List: http://analutetia.com/slurl-in-world-stores-locations/

Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon: Art, Machinima & Immersion in SL

I’m very glad and honored that I was invited to participate to Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon. One of most very interesting person I met recently in SecondLife, Sophrosyne Stenvaag, is the immersionist behind the Extropia Sim, which I visited lately. She released this communique which I’m copying here.
Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon: Art, Machinima & Immersion in SL

Scripter, builder, art and fashion model, photographer, gonzo journalist, fashion designer, club owner, hardcore Flickerite, artist, writer, party animal and insatiable lover CodeBastard Redgrave will be our Salon Spotlight Guest this Saturday, May 1, 1-3pm at The Nexus in Extropia Core (Extropia Core 127, 68, 24)

Codie will screen new machinima, and discuss creativity and identity in SL, present recent artworks, and introduce her gallery show running all weekend in Extropia Core.

Come rock the house with the Red Queen!

I’m very glad to have the occasion to present my work at Extropia Core, this is going to be one awesome experience. Thank you Soph!

Official: Codie Avastar of the Year 2007 by public vote

My Second Life, Scripting / Building, This Website, My Friends, Events, Social Networking, Machinima, Art, MachinimaCam — CodeBastard Redgrave on January 17, 2008 at 1:10 am

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I am so honored that you guys chose me as the Avastar of the Year 2007. I was already honored of sitting in that list with some of the most extraordinary newcomers, including people I admire greatly including RightAsRain Rimbeault, Ana Lutetia and Nicholaz Beresford among others. I’m still a bit under the shock that you guys chose me.

Now I’m getting more feedbacks about how that could happen because honestly I couldn’t believe it. Many people sent me emails and letters to tell me they encouraged my candidacy for that title through their mailing-lists, forums, groups, blogs, even Flickr threads. You people just proven me you can be sweet to the core. That just flatters me to an unimaginable level that I could influence your Second Life, be it just a tiny little bit. For me it’s a world of difference. It means that sometime, somewhere, I have tried my best to be good to people around, that all my efforts to contribute to the community in a positive way have been acknowledge. And acknowledged by you people.

I want to thank each and everyone of you. If I could do it personally, I would. I want to thanks the Avastar for nominating me with all those marvelous people. I want to thanks everyone that voted on that poll and that supported me through that stressful but enlightening process. I want to thank all the candidates for being such good sports. I want to congratulate Ana Lutetia as a Second winner and RightAsRain Rimbeault as the Third winner.

This has been my honor and pleasure to serving this amazing community in my first year. I will try to make my second year even better. I ♥♥♥ you all to bits.

Sincerely,

Codie

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(Myself and 2nd winner Ana Lutetia. Credits: All pictures by Ana Lutetia. Thank you for your permission to use them.)

Codie featured as noob of the year on the Avastar

My Second Life, Flickr, This Website, My Friends, Events, Social Networking, Machinima, Art, MachinimaCam — CodeBastard Redgrave on January 5, 2008 at 8:27 am

Before vacations I got some news about the Avastar making a poll about which newbie did the biggest impact on SL in 2007. Turns out this poll is going online today.

Well of course, when I see names like Nicholaz Beresford and Ana Lutetia, i’m just honored to be cited beside them.

Anyways, here’s the link: Class of 2007

Avastar of 2007 Poll

Merry Xmas and a sexy New Year!

My Second Life, Flickr, My Friends, Events, Social Networking, Funny, Art — CodeBastard Redgrave on December 23, 2007 at 10:02 am

Dear readers,

Just a short post to wish you all a very sweet Xmas full of gifts and sweet attentions, and an awesome new year!

Codie and Ryker wishes all of you a happy Xmas and a merry new year! XD

I ♥♥♥ you all very much.

Codie

Woho! 4th rank on SweetSecondLife.com Community

My Second Life, This Website, My Friends, Social Networking, Funny — CodeBastard Redgrave on December 7, 2007 at 1:42 am

Woah I just noticed I was at 4th rank of SweetSecondLife.Com’s Community page. I have no idea how their algorithm works, seems to be based a lot on Technorati rankings, but not sure. Anyways seems I’m ranking higher than Torley, and I’m just behind Brutal Honesty and the Mean Girls. W00t! I’m the one woman army! LOL
http://sweetsecondlife.com/community

Happy birthday Mr. Venkman!

My Second Life, My Friends, Social Networking — CodeBastard Redgrave on November 22, 2007 at 1:27 am

Today 21st of November is one of my beloved best friends and undoubtly one of my top favourite SL Flicker artists, Stephen Venkman. Steph is also a fellow council board member at Avatrait, and himslef and his adorable wife Kimberly (Mirabeau) Venkman are long time friends.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VENK! *muah! muah! muah!*

the Venkmans

The Venkmans, Stephen and Kimberly

New Secondlife social network Rezzed.Net

My Second Life, Scripting / Building, My Friends, Social Networking — CodeBastard Redgrave on November 21, 2007 at 11:05 pm

Luc Aubret, the infamous scripter and assault weapons maker, has struck again with which is in my own humble opinion his best idea yet. Rezzed.Net is new social network especially made for Secondlifers. What makes it different from SL Profiles in my own sense, is the actual ability to actually share your blog entries and photos in the main page. It’s also way cleaner than SL Profiles that looks like an evil version of MySpace. Rezzed.Net also have hooks into SL to verify if you are a real or fake users.

Rezzed.Net is very early beta of course, but improvement I could suggest is more space for pictures (only 10 megs allowed) and a URL list manager would be an excellent addition. Also the profile layout looks a bit messy when you insert long ass SLURL strings, maby Luc should replace the URL display as a label. Anyways for the rest, it’s pretty neato.

Rezzed.Net is a public beta. You can register too if you have a SLX account you an buy a 0L invite here, or if your logged in inworld you can get an invite through the Rezzed.Net terminal. You can add me from my Rezzed.Net profile.

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