Akela Talamasca on the Intellacast!
Here’s the latest Intellacast! After a long hiatus the podcast is back! This episode is an interview with Akela Talamasca (aka Keoni Chavez in RL), the lead blogger for the Second Life Insider. We had a chat about avatars, blogging about SL, and VOICE in SL! Have a listen!
Have a listen…oh and after you listen…the term that Akela was having so much trouble remembering is “Cognitive Dissonance” so play along and fill in the term when you hear him say “uhhhhhhh what’s that word!”The links mentioned are:
February 28th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
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March 1st, 2007 at 2:36 am
I think that you bought some good points about the voice coming to SL. I think that it will be interesting to watch what happens when voice actually hits the grid. I use skype now to talk to my friends in world and you are right when using voice you do forget to move your avatar or talk to other people in the room. But the voice does add something to the connection that you establish with a person but you lose something in that since you know what the person sounds like and there is no mystery anymore.
Voice is something that is going to change SL but I can’t really say whether it is for the best or not.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:11 pm
On the point about discrimination– we certainly saw it with the verified/unverifieds split. I certainly believe it will happen.
Remember also when we saw commentary around the grid during the ‘Copybot scandal’ where we heard people say ‘if you use or are _suspected_ of using Copybot, you will be BANNED’.
Guilty until proven, uh, wait, no trials here.
Kinda sad.
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Someone needs to build a Kafka sim. Everything’s in black and white; voices follow you around saying things like ‘You know you’re guilty.”; and you can scuttle around as a giant bug.
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:09 pm
after hearing a dj saying my name wrong in a music stream I added a pronunciantion key of sort on my SL profile
(if you’re curious it is pronounced “Tee-Grah” , with the “a” sounding like between the O in “gold” and the first A in “congratulations”)