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Second Life and podcasting are couple of recent online
phenomenon which I find very interesting and follow closely.
Imagine my excitement when podcasting pioneer Adam Curry
(affectionately called podfather by his listeners and other
podcasters) joined Second Life (as Adam Newmann).

Just thinking about what kind of new and interesting things
merging new media with new reality could bring us was making
me feel dizzy. The news of coming opening PodShow island -
gathering place for podcasters in the Second Life sponsored by
PodShow (Adams Curry company) filled me with anticipation.

Fast forward to the present. The PodShow Island is now open. Not only
PodShow paid for an island (an independent game unit which allows
better performance and fewer restrictions than regular land), but they
hired professionals to design and run the place. It looks majestic at the
first glance and was quickly filled with podcasting enthusiasts.

The sad thing is that Pod Show could not come up with anything new or exiting.
They filled their property with various gambling devices and sex and podcasting-related
advertisements. Since they indiscriminately rented space to anybody who is willing to pay
for it, it inevitably attracted several online shops selling various typical SL goods.
In other words it started to look as big, boring and empty shopping mall.

Few podcasters who decided to rent some land on the island could not do
the thing which is interests them the most and the reason they are on the
island - to promote their podcasts by playing it on their property.
This is so because the land is not sub-parceled which prevents them from
setting their own sound track at their parcel. My understanding this is done
to have bigger traffic numbers in statistics for an island as a whole
since land parcel owners are paid based on visitors traffic.
With 8 million dollars (US, not Linden!) in funding they received less than year ago,

do they really need to sacrifice community-building features over
few hundred bucks?
They do not even pass on such cheap second life tricks as paying people to
hang on their property to increase visitors stats and make the place look more popular.

Test post from SL

Second Life and podcasting are couple of recent online
phenomenon which I find very interesting and follow closely.
Imagine my excitement when podcasting pioneer Adam Curry
(affectionately called podfather by his listeners and other
podcasters) joined Second Life (as Adam Newmann).

Just thinking about what kind of new and interesting things
merging new media with new reality could bring us was making
me feel dizzy. The news of coming opening PodShow island -
gathering place for podcasters in the Second Life sponsored by
PodShow (Adams Curry company) filled me with anticipation.

Fast forward to the present. The PodShow Island is now open. Not only
PodShow paid for an island (an independent game unit which allows
better performance and fewer restrictions than regular land), but they
hired professionals to design and run the place. It looks majestic at the
first glance and was quickly filled with podcasting enthusiasts.

The sad thing is that Pod Show could not come up with anything new or exiting.
They filled their property with various gambling devices and sex and podcasting-related
advertisements. Since they indiscriminately rented space to anybody who is willing to pay
for it, it inevitably attracted several online shops selling various typical SL goods.
In other words it started to look as big, boring and empty shopping mall.

Few podcasters who decided to rent some land on the island could not do
the thing which is interests them the most and the reason they are on the
island - to promote their podcasts by playing it on their property.
This is so because the land is not sub-parceled which prevents them from
setting their own sound track at their parcel. My understanding this is done
to have bigger traffic numbers in statistics for an island as a whole
since land parcel owners are paid based on visitors traffic.
With 8 million dollars (US, not Linden!) in funding they received less than year ago,

do they really need to sacrifice community-building features over
few hundred bucks?
They do not even pass on such cheap second life tricks as paying people to
hang on their property to increase visitors stats and make the place look more popular.

Test post from SL

Second Life and podcasting are couple of recent online
phenomenon which I find very interesting and follow closely.
Imagine my excitement when podcasting pioneer Adam Curry
(affectionately called podfather by his listeners and other
podcasters) joined Second Life (as Adam Newmann).

Just thinking about what kind of new and interesting things
merging new media with new reality could bring us was making
me feel dizzy. The news of coming opening PodShow island -
gathering place for podcasters in the Second Life sponsored by
PodShow (Adams Curry company) filled me with anticipation.

Fast forward to the present. The PodShow Island is now open. Not only
PodShow paid for an island (an independent game unit which allows
better performance and fewer restrictions than regular land), but they
hired professionals to design and run the place. It looks majestic at the
first glance and was quickly filled with podcasting enthusiasts.

The sad thing is that Pod Show could not come up with anything new or exiting.
They filled their property with various gambling devices and sex and podcasting-related
advertisements. Since they indiscriminately rented space to anybody who is willing to pay
for it, it inevitably attracted several online shops selling various typical SL goods.
In other words it started to look as big, boring and empty shopping mall.

Few podcasters who decided to rent some land on the island could not do
the thing which is interests them the most and the reason they are on the
island - to promote their podcasts by playing it on their property.
This is so because the land is not sub-parceled which prevents them from
setting their own sound track at their parcel. My understanding this is done
to have bigger traffic numbers in statistics for an island as a whole
since land parcel owners are paid based on visitors traffic.
With 8 million dollars (US, not Linden!) in funding they received less than year ago,

do they really need to sacrifice community-building features over
few hundred bucks?
They do not even pass on such cheap second life tricks as paying people to
hang on their property to increase visitors stats and make the place look more popular.