Connections/ Live2Give
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avadYay for the speedy ease of linkage and the wonders it can do.:)
I read this wonderful post on Tony Walsh's blog 'Clickable Clulture'last week
Transcending Physicality in Second Life and I was moved by it and decided to repost it with a link on the 'gaming technology for social good' discussion thread on omidyar.net.
Pam Omidyar was intrigued and looked into it more and she and I met up on Second Life and visited the Live2Give Island itself (along with Tom).
SO inspiring and wonderful what they've done there. I can't wait to show B. (B worked with a group of similarly disabled adults for quite a while and also worked at United Cerebral Palsy). Next thing you know, Pam has decided she is going to help Live2Give with some funding for new technology! :)! And then next thing you know both John Lester and June-Marie Mahay of Live2give are on omidyar.net and on 'our' Better Island discussion thread and all sorts of people are inspired and want to help and a new discussion thread 'Innovative Use of Technology for the extremely disabled' is started. And June-marie emails me and she's so sweet and we will meet up on SL soon(hopefully with B somehow). He's been researching adaptive devices for quite a while...and well,how perfect.
whew. this stuff is just so FAST!! Connections, connections.
Something as easy as just moving information along on the web can really make a difference quick! hmmmmmm
I read this wonderful post on Tony Walsh's blog 'Clickable Clulture'last week
Transcending Physicality in Second Life and I was moved by it and decided to repost it with a link on the 'gaming technology for social good' discussion thread on omidyar.net.
Pam Omidyar was intrigued and looked into it more and she and I met up on Second Life and visited the Live2Give Island itself (along with Tom).
SO inspiring and wonderful what they've done there. I can't wait to show B. (B worked with a group of similarly disabled adults for quite a while and also worked at United Cerebral Palsy). Next thing you know, Pam has decided she is going to help Live2Give with some funding for new technology! :)! And then next thing you know both John Lester and June-Marie Mahay of Live2give are on omidyar.net and on 'our' Better Island discussion thread and all sorts of people are inspired and want to help and a new discussion thread 'Innovative Use of Technology for the extremely disabled' is started. And June-marie emails me and she's so sweet and we will meet up on SL soon(hopefully with B somehow). He's been researching adaptive devices for quite a while...and well,how perfect.
whew. this stuff is just so FAST!! Connections, connections.
Something as easy as just moving information along on the web can really make a difference quick! hmmmmmm
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Date: 2005-02-09 03:56 am (UTC)PS on a totally lacking in value note: whatcha think of me going blond? I'm asking around for opinions and I wouldn't want to you stop having pillow fights because I look like a blond hussy or anything. ;)
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Date: 2005-02-09 04:22 am (UTC)hee...you know, you would prolly look adorable blonde. especially with the pigtails. hmmmm
I say yes.why not.
ANd you're a hussy either way and you know it.;)
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Date: 2005-02-09 04:38 am (UTC)MOI?!?! a hussy? That's it it's Wrestle Time! You're going to get tickled til you can't breathe! >muah-hahaha
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Date: 2005-02-09 04:42 am (UTC)*runs*
;)
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Date: 2005-02-09 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-09 04:18 am (UTC)they really have some good threads there that you would like, amazing folks.
And I'd LOVE you to be a part of the Better Island brainstorming (if you have time...I know you've got so many of your own projects going...very much along these lines though!!)!
Check out the Live2Give Island on SL if/when you go on next. I'm not sure of the coordinates...just click on Find on the bottom control panel and type in live2give..and then teleport there.!
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Date: 2005-02-09 04:24 am (UTC)Hey, I'd have so much to tell you, I must refrain myself to post you all the time. I'm reading a wonderful book right now about a woman who lived at the turn of the XXth century and who was way before her time. She was an orientalist and spent a part of her life in India, in China... Her name is Alexandra David-Néel. She was a friend of "the Mother".
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Date: 2005-02-09 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-09 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-09 04:47 am (UTC)yes, there's a lot to read.
No rush. Better World Island 1 and 2 are the specific ones I've been mentioning.
Then there's the Continued Discussion on Gaming Technology for Social Good...
(and well tons more..but that's a good start)
:)
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Date: 2005-02-09 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-09 07:33 pm (UTC)It's totally open-ended which is what fascinates me. It is a collaborative construction, sort of like a dreamworld made by you and others.
You enter and choose/modify an avatar to be 'you'(there are instructions how to do this)...and you can explore and build and chat with everyone that's around.
So it can be a place you meet with your friends online in avatar form and meet folks from all over. It's kindof wild to know that people regardless of where they are geographically in real life, here they can be 'dancing in the same club'.
Businesses abound and there is an economy.
Linden Dollars are actually convertable to real currency. This is why I was so amazed and hopeful when groups like Vertu (http://www.vertuous.org/) began fundraising for realworld charities like Heifer international..and made it work! You, for instance, if you wanted to (as an extension of your real world identity)...could design virtual clothes (http://www.nafii.com/kasi/PixelDolls/PDV/index.html) and have your own shop. You can design your own home any way you like.
I think the important thing to keep in mind is that you are reaching people you would not normally be able to....and to think of the possibilities of that and how it can be much more than a game. It's a mode of communication that allows you certain freedoms. How you use those freedoms is up to you.
So, for me, I'm trying to brainstorm how this technology can be used to really inspire people to feel more connected to others across distance, to feel able to do good things...and to feel part of a larger benevolent organism...how the ideas fromm my dreams and art can be communicated in this realm..etc
SO much potential I can't even express.:)
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Date: 2005-02-09 07:39 pm (UTC)It'll help me rack up some Linden that I can use on these projects eventually!:)
Hope to see you inworld one day!
(by the way, I was SO not a 'gamer'. Everything I saw was fighting and killing nonsense. This is totally different. Which is not to say that some people don't have their fighting/killing sections...but you make of it what you want, and you go where it interests you.)
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Date: 2005-02-09 08:37 pm (UTC)It sounds fascinating and reminds me of the book Snow Crash.
Thank you. I'm marking this as a memory so I can go back and check it all out more thoroughly when I have a little more time.