You meant Joseph, and not Richard (who’s the radio program presenter).

Second life is owned by Linden Research. Anyone can become a resident in SL, either on free or paid membership. If you wish to purchase something in SL (e.g. hair, clothes, furniture, piece of land, or even an island) from Linden or other residents, you will use your real money (which will go to Linden Research) to buy Linden dollars to do the transactions. And you can convert your Linden dollars back to real money if you so wish. It’s a functional economy in there!

I can’t say I have the full knowledge of SL, but that’s as far as I know.

Joseph

Prue

I find the lighter grey text colour and the font size difficult to read, especially on my laptop, sitting outside on a beautiful Sydney April Friday morning.

I had a look and neither appear to be adjustable in the presentation set up.

This is a shame as I like the broken picture at the top.

The amount of static information in the other three columns seems to draw my attention away from your actual blog content. That, too, seems to be a non adjustable feature of the template you have chosen.

Prue’s point about the blog reflecting your personality is valid - up to a point.

If the aim is to influence others through your postings then it has to be attractive to them.

Saunders paper (Chapter 3) talks about learning from people who know a bit more than us, but not too much. I suspect that the attraction of innovation is similar - we are attracted to things that are a bit ahead of where we are, but not too far.

Compare the layout of your page with the highly successful web sites, like Google and Amazon.com. Google news is a good example of the point I am making

Both put their key messages in about half of the age with the add on taking up a quarter on either side.

The overall appearance of your site is quite attractive. This is enhanced significantly by the split photo. The problem arises when I try to read or write.

Your content is great. the concern is that you prevent people reading it by making it too hard.

Your blog is cool! One thing I really like that I will definitely start doing is tha you give the reader a bit of background info about the article you are discussing so if someone not from emt comes along it is still meaningful. I am just launching into it without any preamble so I think that is a great idea.

Good luck with it all and Happy Easter!

Cheers

Prue

I’ve been around since Sesame street premiered. It promised a great opportunity to expand literacy for young kids growing up in families where the parents were not educated.

In fact the families that watched Sesame Street were the well educated ones. The literacy levels from the higher income family kids when they reached school was even further ahead of the poorer families than it had been before big bird.

I am fascinated by this stuff because I have thirty year old twins - 1 st generation Sesame streeters and a nine year old son, who probably learned as much from the Wiggles as he did from sesame street.

But all three were spared “So you think you’re a loser” and similar reality programs.

The connected generation coming through, including my 9 year old son Griffin will share in the benefits of the web unequally, but all will benefit.

If I had looked at this post earlier I could have saved an hour’s reading.

I like thwe way uyou take the essence of a report and set it against your experience.