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I had a great time at the party! I even feel almost hungover this morning - must be the fact that Baubles the Cat kept trying to wake me up, starting from 3am all the virtual beer and vodka Paradoxa imbibed during the evening.
More pictures and comment at virtual lint.
A first: tonight I’ll be attending my first ever virtual party! If you’ve never checked out Second Life before, do consider coming along tonight, 6pm Western Daylight Saving Time. You’ll need to download the Second Life client in order to join us. The party will be at the Australian Libraries building in Cybrary City. Teleport yourself there using this link.
Or, once you’re in the world, we can teleport you to where it’s all happening - look for Paradoxa Kurrajong (yours truly’s avatar), or Emerald Dumont, or Hypatia Arcadia, or Curious Forager, or HeyJude Jenns, or Fiona Bradley… snail Voskhod, I hope you make it, even if you’re late!
I wish I could be in two places at once - I’ll be missing tonight’s bloggers’ meetup. Dee, and Skribe and Toxic Purity (wish I could see JOOB), and Simone, have a great time!
My colleague partner in crime friend and fellow blogger Kathryn Greenhill has just launched a new blog: Virtual librariesinteract.info (vlint for short). If you’ve been reading our lint blog, you will have noticed that a few of us have been exploring Second Life (see, for example: Christmas party!, and the news about our building in Second Life). Kathryn decided (and rightly so, I think) that it would be a good idea to hive off the majority of SL posts to a separate blog, and so, in her ’spare’ time has put installed and put together this blog for discussion and sharing information on Australian library folks’* adventures in SL.
As Kathryn points out on her blog, snail (fellow linter) made the brilliant suggestion that we could broaden it so that we’re not only blogging about Second Life: we can use vlint to blog about “any other world, including World of Warcraft, gaming, speculative fiction or virtual library branches. This is the place for the more specific and technical posts.”
Anyone want to blog about WoW, or EQ, and the impact of the gaming experience on library users’ expectations of library interfaces, perhaps? How about the different experiences of PvE and PvP players and their expectations when interacting with each other in-game and in Real Life… and in libraries? (Okay, I’m stretching it a bit here. But next time I log on I might have to analyse my reactions to finding information about a difficult quest, and observe how players ask for help or information…)
*library folks because I’m trying to be inclusive of all - librarians, library technicians, IT people - anyone who works in a library, really.
