Second Life? (Sunday social at Bookmooch)
Someone finally roped me in to Second Life.Tomorrow (Sunday) LibraryThing members are invited to crash the weekly get-together put on by Bookmooch.* It's at 2pm Eastern, 11am Pacfic, at the Bookmooch/Magnatune area on Second Life. Here's a link to go there. If I can figure out how, I'll give you a LibraryThing t-shirt I made.
I'll be interested to see who turns up. I'm not sure what I think of Second Life yet. It seems empty, and I don't find the chats very interesting. But I like building, and I have this idea that LibraryThing should integrate so that members have random books from their LibraryThing libraries floating over their head. (Or maybe it's books you share with someone floating around you?) But I'm not going to think about it seriously for a while. There's too much else to do.
But, if you want to meet other Thingamabrarians—well, me anyway—and Bookmoochers, come check it out.
Update: I also made a Second Life group on LibraryThing.
Note: If you're not a member of Second Life already, downloading and setting it up will take you 10-15 minutes. You need a fairly fast machine.
*John Buckman, the Bookmooch creator, okayed the idea.
Labels: bookmooch, second life
posted by Tim at 6:15 PM
4 Comments:
I'm on SecondLife, but just barely. I figured I had to experience it a few times, but frankly didn't get much out of it. If I'm able, I'll stop by tomorrow for a free T-shirt. (Isn't that one of life's great rewards? Or is it children? I get them mixed up sometimes.)
Understandable if you don't get to those ideas right away, but that one about books in common sounds absolutely wonderful. Imagine walking up to a stranger (possibly wearing an LT shirt) and as you approach, shared books start popping into view overhead (or on the shirt). What a fantastic conversation starter! Wish that device was available in FirstLife. We're stuck commenting on the weather.
Second Life is anything but empty, except for the library spaces. The variety of activities in SL is tremendous: literally anything you can imagine is going on there. Check out some of the live concerts discussion groups, dance clubs, and more. But I think you point to a significant problem with SL library projects thus far: librarians keep trying to build virtual replicas of physical library spaces and hope that SL denizens will want to spend time there.
I think this reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what SL is: a communications medium, not a content management system.
Well, I'm there, but I don't know what to do.
The Bookmooch meeting was enjoyable. They were outnumbered by LTers by the end though.
Insinuating LT into the trusted social networks of the denziens of Second Life is the way to go. Some kind of script that avatars carry around with them - driven by LT dynamic data perhaps, who knows.
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