2009年6月8日 星期一

G2 questionnaire

Female/Male:
1. How often do you use Second Life?
2. How do you distribute your personal spare time while using SL in one day?
3. What kind of place/club interest you to go and spend time on SL?
4. Do you have specific meeting time with the new friends/club/group you know
on SL?
5. If yes, how often do you meet with each other? What’s the main interest of
your group?
6. Would you like to create your own space or form a group/community to attract
people or to make new friends?
7. Have you ever sensed that you tend to get along with people who share almost
the same motivations with you?
8. Have you heard about SL before this class?If yes, what do you feel after using
it?
9. What's the best part you like in SL?
10. What’s the biggest difference you feel between SL and RL?
11. Are you with the same personalities in both SL and RL? Why?
12. Are you indulged in the life of your avatar?
13. What things have you done in SL that you dare not to do in RL?
14. Do you encounter any moral/ immoral issue in this virtual mode of life?
15. How do you react when other SL users make you feel harassed?
16. For a newbie, what should he/ her take care the most in SL?
17. Will you introduce SL to your friends who are not in this class to join SL?
18. Will technical problems wear out your interest in SL?
19. What will be the stimulants that enable you a daily user on SL?
Excitement? Or just novelty? Or expectation to meet friends or someone
special online?
20. Will you use SL after we complete this course?

2009年6月3日 星期三

G2 part of questionnaire

1. How often do you use SL?
2. Have you heard about SL before this class?
If yes, what do you feel after using it?
3. What kind of things you usually do in SL?
4. What's the best part you like in SL?
5. Will technical problems bother you being a user in the future?

2009年5月4日 星期一

tips for earning money (revised)

SL is indeed an attracting place which satisfies people’s desire of social life. But if you want to enjoy SL more, it’s necessary to have some linden money for kinds of needs. Several ways are provided in SL; however, for rookies, there are not many choices.
For one, based on the premise that you are already a land owner, you can run a club to have some commercial transactions with others. If you are not, you still can work for them. For those club owners, in order to gain great popularity, they will provide some jobs for rookies such as camping, mopping and dancing. Predictably, that will not offer high payoff. It averages 3L every ten minutes.
First, you can type “club” as a keyword in “Places” column to search. There are lots of clubs provided then you can choose any one of them to teleport, and each has different jobs offered. Keep your eyes open! Because of some clubs there are not legal at all.
















As the picture above, I choose the FLASHBACKS CLUB. Crowded with varieties of people, night life in SL shares a great similarity to real life! After times of groping, I find out that all of the dancing pads are occupied. Also, there’s no camping chair left for me! I cannot help but choose mopping, the lowest payment in club. So I spend two hours but only earn L12!!












2009年4月28日 星期二

tips for earning money

SL is indeed an attracting place which satisfies people’s desire of social life. But if you want to enjoy SL more, it’s necessary to have some linden money for kinds of needs. Several ways are provided in SL; however, for rookies, there are not many choices.
For one, based on the premise that you are already a land owner, you can run a club to have some commercial transactions with others. If you are not, you still can work for them. For those club owners, in order to gain great popularity, they will provide some jobs for rookies such as camping, mopping and dancing. Predictably, that will not offer high payoff. It averages 3L every ten minutes.
First, you can type “club” as a keyword in “Places” column to search. There are lots of clubs provided then you can choose any one of them to teleport, and each has different jobs offered. Keep your eyes open! Because of some clubs there are not legal at all.















As the picture above, I choose the FLASHBACKS CLUB. Crowded with varieties of people, night life in SL shares a great similarity to real life! After times of groping, I find out that all of the dancing pads are occupied. Also, there’s no camping chair left for me! I cannot help but choose mopping, the lowest payment in club. So I spend two hours but only earn L12!







2009年4月20日 星期一

magical transformation!!! (revised)














If you are new in SL, avatars you can choose are less and all built-in. one avatar possesses his or her own outfit, you can merely change the color or length of their clothes. As you see in the picture above, I am the left one sitting on the sofa, a strange one with sagging bosom and big belly. Those green parts (leaves? or something else) and the weird helmet on her head are never taken off even hundred times of tries. Once I log in, this avatar appears on my screen, and that’s a really turnoff!
However, things changed since I met a friend in SL!

Last week when I was idling around in SL, I met a guy in a place which was randomly chosen. After a short conversation with him, I asked him whether he knows a way to change avatar. “Well, you can buy some new skin or clothes instead changing you avatar.” His precious words become a motive, helping me to start my transformation. Firstly, typing “free cloth” or “free skin” in the searching blank. Then it will appear lots of place which offer kinds of skin and countless suits. You can teleport to everywhere you like and try on different type of style. Some of them cost a lot, but most are cheap and even free. It indeed spends me time clicking those stuff one by one, but the process is interesting and of great worth.













It’s one of places offering free clothes











Look! It’s me after transformation! And all of those clothes are free! It’s really a big step I take in SL!

2009年4月17日 星期五

Organized comment on Gracie’s World Palette “Truth be told…”

writer: Gracie (Angelique Nayar)
reviewer: Cate (Catecha Inaka)
editor: Benjamin (Benben Pelazzi )
organizer: Tanya (Jacqueline Maven)
In Gracie’s “Foreigner Eye on Otaku Guy”, she declaims that she doesn’t log in SL other than class meeting result from her computer with poor graphic card. That is the truth she wants to share. Our group suggests that she should step out to other places in SL, finding something interesting except for class meeting place. Maybe the story next week can be some experiences happened in SL.

Transcripts are as follows
[1:46] Benben Pelazzi: let's go to farther
[1:47] Jacqueline Maven: agree
[1:47] Angelique Nayar: agree
[1:48] catecha Inaka: here
[1:48] Benben Pelazzi: ok
[1:48] catecha Inaka: firsy
[1:48] catecha Inaka: first
[1:51] Angelique Nayar: ok
[2:05] catecha Inaka: me first
[2:05] catecha Inaka: i report a sl news about myself
[2:05] Benben Pelazzi: ok
[2:06] catecha Inaka: and i was a narrator, interpreting catecha Inaka's first experience to publish the news in sl
[2:06] catecha Inaka: start from creating a board
[2:06] catecha Inaka: a fit the image to the board
[2:07] catecha Inaka: and name the three crucial steps that beginner has to follow
[2:07] catecha Inaka: and with the help of Emma, catecha made her fist step in sl!
[2:07] catecha Inaka: which is great for her
[2:07] catecha Inaka: that's it
[2:08] catecha Inaka: discuss it!
[2:08] Benben Pelazzi: what's the board?
[2:08] catecha Inaka: the news board for audience to vote for
[2:09] Benben Pelazzi: XDD
[2:09] Angelique Nayar: I think your third person narative voice is interesting
[2:09] catecha Inaka: oh
[2:09] catecha Inaka: really?
[2:09] Angelique Nayar: with three vivid coloful pictures
[2:09] catecha Inaka: i think your blow job is more interesting
[2:09] catecha Inaka: ha
[2:09] Angelique Nayar: yea ben's first
[2:09] Benben Pelazzi: haha
[2:10] catecha Inaka: so, any advice?
[2:10] Benben Pelazzi: BJ diary
[2:10] catecha Inaka: my bj diary
[2:10] Angelique Nayar: not much
[2:10] catecha Inaka: oh
[2:11] Benben Pelazzi: hmm
[2:11] catecha Inaka: and my title is "catecha inaka published her first news in sl"
[2:11] catecha Inaka: something like that~
[2:11] Benben Pelazzi: ok~
[2:12] Angelique Nayar: I think the content of your news is good enough, but maybe you can come up with another headline~
[2:12] catecha Inaka: more fascinating~
[2:13] catecha Inaka: i know
[2:13] Angelique Nayar: Only people in our class know catecha is you
[2:13] catecha Inaka: thx
[2:13] Angelique Nayar: ha
[2:13] catecha Inaka: oh, good idea
[2:13] catecha Inaka: ben, your turn
[2:13] Benben Pelazzi: ok
[2:13] Benben Pelazzi: my title is
[2:13] Angelique Nayar: maybe like a New Star in Publishing Industry?!
[2:14] Benben Pelazzi: how to have sex via keyboard inSL
[2:14] Benben Pelazzi: i went to a free sex club finding any girl available
[2:15] Jacqueline Maven: i see
[2:15] Benben Pelazzi: and a collard slave who is female, says she can offer sex for free
[2:16] Benben Pelazzi: and i learn how to use keyboard to urge my character to have sex
[2:16] Jacqueline Maven: so....not evrey sex is free
[2:16] Benben Pelazzi: yeah
[2:16] Jacqueline Maven: oh ok
[2:16] Benben Pelazzi: some charges you as prostitue
[2:16] catecha Inaka: ha
[2:16] Benben Pelazzi: there are some colored balls
[2:16] catecha Inaka: so dirty..
[2:16] Angelique Nayar: for what?
[2:16] catecha Inaka: 鬧劇?
[2:16] catecha Inaka: hahahahaha
[2:16] Benben Pelazzi: on them written differnt sexual positions
[2:16] catecha Inaka: kidding
[2:17] Jacqueline Maven: i see in ur pics
[2:17] catecha Inaka: cool pic
[2:17] catecha Inaka: so interesting
[2:17] Angelique Nayar: yep
[2:17] Benben Pelazzi: and click it you can choose any you want
[2:17] Jacqueline Maven: choose what?
[2:17] Benben Pelazzi: position....
[2:18] Jacqueline Maven: hahaha
[2:18] Jacqueline Maven: ~~
[2:18] Jacqueline Maven: ok~~
[2:18] Benben Pelazzi: like "sweet ,asturbation"
[2:18] Benben Pelazzi: "threesome"
[2:18] Angelique Nayar: ha
[2:18] Benben Pelazzi: "doggy"
[2:18] Jacqueline Maven: hahaha
[2:18] Benben Pelazzi: and so
[2:19] Jacqueline Maven: so what's ur position
[2:19] Benben Pelazzi: this is 班傑明的極樂旅程
[2:19] Benben Pelazzi: blow job
[2:19] catecha Inaka: hahahaha
[2:19] Jacqueline Maven: hahaha
[2:19] catecha Inaka: hilarious...............
[2:19] Angelique Nayar: bj diary
[2:19] Benben Pelazzi: yeap....
[2:20] Benben Pelazzi: that's about it
[2:20] Charley Beardmore: hi there:)
[2:20] Benben Pelazzi: so any suggestion?
[2:21] Jacqueline Maven: i suggest that u can try to charge somebody to have sex in the next story
[2:21] Charley Beardmore: why are you sitting on my patio?
[2:21] Jacqueline Maven: hahaha
[2:21] Benben Pelazzi: hahaha
[2:22] Benben Pelazzi: stange old man
[2:23] catecha Inaka: right here?
[2:23] Benben Pelazzi: ok
[2:23] catecha Inaka: go on
[2:24] Jacqueline Maven: so
[2:25] Jacqueline Maven: next is gracie?
[2:25] Benben Pelazzi: hmm
[2:25] Angelique Nayar: I think some more advise for Ben?
[2:26] Angelique Nayar: But I can't think of yet
[2:26] Jacqueline Maven: i give mt suggestion already
[2:26] Jacqueline Maven: haha
[2:27] Benben Pelazzi: ok
[2:27] Benben Pelazzi: Gracie
[2:28] catecha Inaka: graice
[2:28] Angelique Nayar: my bizarre, trivial experience on SL, my headline is "truth be told"...
[2:28] catecha Inaka: what do ypu want to express?
[2:29] Jacqueline Maven: i'm reading~
[2:29] Angelique Nayar: ha I didn't log in sl other than class meeting with graphic card on computer so I
[2:29] Benben Pelazzi: hmm
[2:30] Angelique Nayar: logged in last night, and found no one to experience sth new
[2:30] Angelique Nayar: and then WHEN i JUST about to explore a mysterious house, my screen was all black out
[2:31] Angelique Nayar: when I touched the door
[2:31] Benben Pelazzi: wow
[2:31] Angelique Nayar: in the end it turned out to be a overheated situation of my notebook!!!!
[2:31] Angelique Nayar: that's it
[2:32] catecha Inaka: tan~
[2:32] Jacqueline Maven: mt turn ?
[2:32] Benben Pelazzi: hahahah
[2:32] Jacqueline Maven: my
[2:32] Jacqueline Maven: ok
[2:32] catecha Inaka: naybe next time you should surf sl more and walk out of hilbert actually
[2:33] catecha Inaka: you know, sl is more fun than you thought
[2:33] catecha Inaka: just step out, gracie~
[2:33] Angelique Nayar: okay catie
[2:33] catecha Inaka: then i think our discussion is almost done
[2:33] Benben Pelazzi: Tan not yet
[2:33] catecha Inaka: right
[2:34] Jacqueline Maven: yeap
[2:34] Jacqueline Maven: my story is about
[2:35] Jacqueline Maven: how to change your appearance in sl
[2:35] Jacqueline Maven: outfit
[2:35] Jacqueline Maven: cloth
[2:35] catecha Inaka: wow
[2:35] Jacqueline Maven: and even skin
[2:35] catecha Inaka: it's practicable
[2:35] Jacqueline Maven: and they all for free
[2:35] Benben Pelazzi: yes~
[2:36] Jacqueline Maven: i find a cool place
[2:36] Benben Pelazzi: your news reminds me
[2:36] catecha Inaka: so you provide a method for sl audience to dress them up
[2:36] Jacqueline Maven: they even sell knife oe guns~~
[2:36] Benben Pelazzi: if u wants to have sex with a man
[2:36] Jacqueline Maven: yes
[2:36] Benben Pelazzi: you need to wear skin
[2:36] Jacqueline Maven: hahahaha
[2:36] Benben Pelazzi: so that you got virgina
[2:37] Jacqueline Maven: oh!!! really
[2:37] Jacqueline Maven: ?
[2:37] Jacqueline Maven: how do u know that
[2:37] Angelique Nayar: !!
[2:37] Benben Pelazzi: just like men need to wear a free cock
[2:37] Benben Pelazzi: Caro told me
[2:37] Jacqueline Maven: so u got a free cock?
[2:37] Jacqueline Maven: cool
[2:37] Benben Pelazzi: yes
[2:37] Benben Pelazzi: haha
[2:37] Angelique Nayar: maybe your next article can talk about that
[2:37] Angelique Nayar: ben
[2:37] Benben Pelazzi: let me wear it
[2:38] Jacqueline Maven: i know her have a sex in sl too
[2:38] Angelique Nayar: maybe we can go back to Tanya's
[2:39] Jacqueline Maven: ok
[2:39] Jacqueline Maven: so, any suggestion?
[2:40] Jacqueline Maven: oh by the way
[2:40] Jacqueline Maven: i really have no idea how i get my vip
[2:40] Jacqueline Maven: ben u turn in grey!!!
[2:40] Jacqueline Maven: what's happened?
[2:42] Angelique Nayar: tanya you can explore how to wear other sex's skin?
[2:42] Angelique Nayar: like ben just told us
[2:43] Angelique Nayar: or talk about the fashion world in SL
[2:43] Jacqueline Maven: ok maybe i can write in my next story
[2:43] Jacqueline Maven: ok
[2:43] Angelique Nayar: yep
[2:43] Jacqueline Maven: thx
[2:43] Angelique Nayar: I thin k we're done
[2:43] catecha Inaka: wrap up
[2:43] Jacqueline Maven: ok
[2:44] Benben Pelazzi: ok

2009年4月14日 星期二

magical transformation !!!!!















If you are new in SL, avatars you can choose are less and all built-in. one avatar possesses his or her own outfit, you can merely change the color or length of their clothes. As you see in the picture above, I am the left one sitting on the sofa, a strange one with sagging bosom and big belly. Those green parts (leaves? or something else) and the weird helmet on her head are never taken off even hundred times of tries. Once I log in, this avatar appears on my screen, and that’s a really turnoff!

However, things changed since I met a friend in SL!


Last week when I was idling around in SL, I met a guy in a place which was randomly chosen. After a short conversation with him, I asked him whether he knows a way to change avatar. “Well, you can buy some new skin or clothes instead changing you avatar.” His precious words become a motive, helping me to start my transformation.

Firstly, typing “free cloth” or “free skin” in the searching blank. Then it will appear lots of place which offer kinds of skin and countless suits. You can teleport to everywhere you like and try on different type of style. Some of them cost a lot, but most are cheap and even free. It indeed spends me time clicking those stuff one by one, but the process is interesting and of great worth.














Look! It’s me after transformation! And all of those clothes are free! It’s really a big step I take in SL!