March 27, 2008
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Second Life: Xanga
Just wanted to point out that searching for ‘xanga’ on Second Life yields only one result: Someone’s profile with two xanga links.
Can it be true that with 1.2 million plus accounts and 40-plus thousand logins a day, only one person on Second Life besides myself has a Xanga ‘blog?
Of course, Xanga’s own search function is fuxored so you can’t make literal search terms (searching for ‘second life’ yields ‘second’ and ‘life’ results, regardless of whether you put it in quotes), which makes it difficult to find Second Life users on Xanga.
One search result of note is LaurelSolutions, who is trying to position themselves as business consultants within SL. A glance at their promotional material yields little hope for competence, however. Best of luck, guys…. but…. If you want people to attend your open house, you have to include a SLURL.
Also there are three Second Life Xanga blogrings/groups/nomenclature-du-jour. 25 members in the biggest one. How can there not be more crossover?
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You know… I have been meaning to check it out ever since I read your first post on it but I still haven’t made it over there…
Maybe people just don’t connect the two…
Oh come on, I know you know how to do it
I suspect that few people have enough time in their lives to be fully engaged with two absorbing digital communities.
I suspect that few people have enough time in their lives to be fully engaged with two absorbing digital communities.
@sean - lol and homer’s site pops up of course….
and to answer the question: the reason there isn’t more crossover is that, for all of its scriptable, mega-primmy glory, SL is still basically the world’s slowest chat room.
@sean -
I did that, too.
This post started out as a no-one-knows-about-Xanga-on-Second-Life post, and then turned into a Xanga-search-sucks post, and then a LaurelSolutions-should-hire-me post, and as if that weren’t enough lost focus, it turned into who know what at the end.
running both fantasies well would take more free time than I seem to find. As to screwed-up search-engines, I waste valuable brain cells searching for “hebrew, the language” and wading through, let’s call them ‘avid’ followers of a certain Nazarene, whose life story has a chapter called Hebrews. Xanga also used to enable ‘audio-search’, I think they tossed it because of all the uploaded copyrighted material. I do miss being able to find anyone brave enough to post his own music.
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