http://sl.webfeedcentral.com Strange Ranger's Stage for Opinions on SL Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:39:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What was supposed to have been a one year deal with SL Repoorts to do site administration and SEO has turned into only six months. As of July 31, 2008, I am no longer working on the SL Reports site, at all. The only service that continues is the hosting ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2008/08/08/my-work-there-is-done/ After almost a month of not updating the SSL Blog, I figured I better post something to verify that I'm still alive. Although I haven't been in-world, at all, I have been busy working on some things that have to do with SL. Arbitrage Wise and I have worked out ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2008/02/10/still-around-strangely-enough/ Linden Lab stated that "Since the collapse of Ginko Financial in August 2007, Linden Lab has received complaints about several in-world “banks” defaulting on their promises." Now, I realize that the point has been argued, but in the basic sense, didn't the fact that Linden Lab banned gaming "instantly and definitively" ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2008/01/11/quick-new-policy-observation/ While not a complete "ban" of Second Life banks, many are choosing to see the new policy and describe it this way. The very start of the blog post says: "As of January 22, 2008, it will be prohibited to offer interest or any direct return on an investment (whether in ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2008/01/09/second-life-bank-ban/ I just found out about the in-world banking ban in Second Life. While I haven't had time to fully wake up and comprehend the effects of this, I just wanted to say that I'll have a longer post about this, soon. The Second Life banking ban will surely make some ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2008/01/08/banking-ban-my-opinions-coming-soon/ While it's still to be seen what changes will come to the SL Reports web site, I am frustrated with the fact that I wasn't seen as a person that could potentially take care of what needs to be done. It looks like the changes will be made without any ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/12/11/a-little-frustrated/ IntLibber Brautigan seems to have gone and pulled something that even I didn't think he was capable of. While I've come close to writing about him in the past, I had always decided that it would be better to just ignore him. Well, I can't ignore him any longer. First, ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/12/05/announcing-ass-hole-of-the-year/ While, this time, I'm not "vowing" to leave Second Life, my time working with SL Reports has come to an end. I really enjoyed my time with them, and I'm sure I'll continue to read the site, post comments, and (of course) take care of any server-side things that need ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/12/02/reloading-and-firing-in-a-different-direction/ A lot of times, I get Google Alerts for things that I never really asked for. One of my "keyphrases" that I have it find for me is "second life". You can probably imagine that I get some off-topic articles like "Man Gets Second Life Sentence" or "Woman Gets Second ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/11/27/second-life-for-condoms/ In an attempt to explain and justify a few things, I figured I would explain, here. Sadly, I realize that the readership of this blog is not as high as some places that I could get this information to more of the people who need to know. There has ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/11/25/an-explaination/ Anybody who really knows me knows that I'm a really honest person. Though I may kid around at times and be sarcastic at other times, I don't lie about things that I'm thinking. I'll give honest opinions if I'm asked. I'll keep things private if I'm asked to, as well. This ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/11/21/resigning-from-sl-reports/ I just finished reading the latest post by Nobody Fugazi at your2ndplace.com. While I agree with just about everything he says, I'm simply afraid that the constant echos from people that are upset about the current state of SL will continue to go unheard by the ones who really need ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/11/19/its-time-for-ll-to-actually-do-something/ I've been running a classified for a few days, trying to hire some more writers and freelancers for SL Reports. I've had a really good response, so far. More than 20 people in the past 48 hours have been interested in writing. Many of them seem to "really" want to ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/11/01/first-impressions-count/ Just a short post to express my frustration with the 25 group limit in Second Life. With the influx of residents in 2007, it would really make sense to allow users to belong to more than 25 groups. I would think that 50 would be plenty, for a while. I've ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/10/31/25-group-limit/ Later tonight, the new episode of CSI: NY will be shown and will coincide with the release of a new Second Life viewer. The AOLized viewer from Electric Sheep, called OnRez will be available for new users that sign up to SL through the CBS web site and to current ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/10/24/csi-ny-opportunity-or-massive-disaster/ Coming from the camp that "software wants to be free",  this is something that just caught my eye. I just wanted to post it here as a reference, for now. With my laptop still in the shop, I need a way to bookmark sites, somehow (other than del.icio.us). I haven't ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/09/27/its-a-free-for-all/ I just want to preface this post by saying that I did not have any money tied up with Jasper Tizzy, The Bank, or anything else that he was connected to. I met him in a casino, one day and we started talking about web sites and hosting. He approached ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/09/19/jasper-tizzy-and-what-lies-beneath/ There are many different kinds of discussions that take place, every day, but one of the big discussions that I attended, yesterday was really "strange". What was supposed to be a discussion about a religious sect opening a couple islands in SL, and the ramifications that it might have in ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/09/15/a-discussion-gone-wrong/ Mainstream media keeps heading right down the same path, it seems. Just as I thought that Second Life bashing was about to end, another "SL Doomsday" writer points out all of the evils that she can find with the platform (which she refers to as a "Web site"). Scripps ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/09/15/only-pointing-out-the-bad/ Even though I will not be verifying my age with Linden Lab, I will be posting a lot of real life information and a short auto-biography on SL Reports. The decision to post the contact information for the Board of Directors was made at our latest meeting, on September 30th. ... http://sl.webfeedcentral.com/2007/09/01/lets-get-real/