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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 12 June 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_list@marcusbuck.org" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"<a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org">list@marcusbuck.org</a>
"</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org">list@marcusbuck.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Travels" 2007.06.12 (06) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q">
From: Luc Hellinckx <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L "Travels"<br>><br>> Ron (et al),
<br>><br>> What about setting up a Lowlands embassy in Second Life? :-D<br>><br>> For those of you not in the know, Second Life is a fast growing virtual<br>> world. If Sweden and the Maldives can do it, we must surely be able to
<br>> do it as well (and we would have the third embassy in the world on SL!).<br>> We could either buy an existing house or make one ourselves.<br>><br>> Some of the content of the website could be reused. It's even possible
<br>> to launch workshops!<br>><br>> Imagine the Lowlands having a virtual embassy before Germany (and<br>> Kazakhstan :-D ) has one...now that would be a hoot!<br>><br>> Kind greetings,<br>><br>> Luc Hellinckx
<br><br></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">After reading about the Swedes building up an embassy there, I had a</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
similar idea about creating an embassy to promote knowledge about Low</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Saxon and Low Saxon itself on Second Life. I had known about Second
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Life before, but only from the media. So I registered there, to see,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
what Second Life is and what exactly you can do there ('having a</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">second life' is not too specific as a description of the concept of
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">the game/simulation). I had heard about hundreds of thousands people</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
who were Second Lifers. But I must admit, that I was very disappointed</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">of Second Life after I had tried it myself. I felt a bit lost. There
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">is this really big in-game world, but, I had no idea, where to go. You</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
have to attend a tutorial about how to control your character, but</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">there is no tutorial about what places you can go to do anything
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">interesting. It was all shallow, noncommittal and meaningless. A</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
virtual disco to dance virtually with people (or anthropomorph animal</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">characters) you don't know, meaningless chat, dependencies of
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">companies who want to make advertising for their offline products,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
this kind of things I encountered. The whole thing is like a</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lustmeile. Whores on the sidewalk, blinking neon light adverts on the
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">walls and roofs, drunkards lingering around, that is the atmosphere I</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
associated. Well, perhaps I made something wrong at the start, or I</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">only did not find the nicer places. But I heard a statistic, that at
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">least two thirds of all people registering on Second Life don't log in</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
a second time. So I guess, I am not the only one, who couldn't figure</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">out, how to use it.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The Swedish embassy was only announced then and not set up, so I</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
haven't visited it yet. Perhaps it is really useful and a Lowlands</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">embassy would be too. I don't know. But I want to say: don't expect
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">too much. You have to invest much time (and many Linden-Dollars) to</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
set up a working and useful subsidiary on Second Life. Perhaps a good</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">old-fashioned HTML website is a better invested effort.</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Marcus Buck</span><br><br>----------<br><br></span>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">jonny</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">
jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: </span>
LL-L "Travels" 2007.06.12 (05) [E]<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Beste
Ron,</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">'Lowlands
Travels' looks great- but your contribution isn't very encouraging for me- it
would last half a year to write something comparable!</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">So I'll
have to wait for other examples, nearer to the ground...</font></span></div>
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<div align="left"><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Congratulations!</font></span></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Jonny
Meibohm</font></div></div>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Travels</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thanks a lot, Jonny!</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">
but your contribution isn't very encouraging for me</span><br><br>Well, that's why yesterday I wrote this:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">> Please also bear in mind
that we expect neither literary masterworks nor long epistles (though
they are definitely welcome also, and there is one now under "Germany,"
"Things to Do" and "Things to Taste," and that's because I had written
it earlier). A single to-the-point paragraph per item is just fine,
and it suits the attention span of most visitors. If you can add
graphics, audio or video files, that's cherries on top.
</span><br><br>I put it there because I had it already, had published it elsewhere.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
As I said, anything from a brief paragraph to goodness-knows-what is welcome. Most importantly, this is not about competing but about pooling our knowledge to be of service -- elk een na sien koenen un na syn moeg' (each according to his/her ability and taste).
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> So I'll
have to wait for other examples, nearer to the ground...</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ja, man, Jonny ... Do you really need a template and a leader? Well, whatever floats your boat.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Yes, folks, adapted, rehashed or warmed-up works originally intended for other purposes are very welcome as long as they are relevant.
<br><br>Marcus about Second Life:<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">> But I want to say: don't expect</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">too much. You have to invest much time (and many Linden-Dollars) to</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">set up a working and useful subsidiary on Second Life. Perhaps a good</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">old-fashioned HTML website is a better invested effort.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">This is also what I think about it today after reading a bit about it. There's nothing wrong with virtual life games, but in our case this would only work if it really served our purpose, if it reached the kinds of people we want to reach and attract, and if it yields the best results that can be maintained with the available time, effort and resources.
<br><br>On a personal note, the looks and movements of most virtual characters give me the creeps.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br>
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