Saleh’s Loan - Primula Rasa Rumors
Posted in 3D Social Networks, Attention, Avatar Photos, Lifestyle Evolution, Second Life, Twitter, Video Games, Web 2.0 by wayne.porter on February 5th, 2008 An update on the microloan to Saleh Lie. if you recall the story I blogged here a few times the last few months.
Saleh Lie is forty-years old and married with one child. She sells clothes and with her previous loans she diversified her business so that she now sells onions, sauce pans, tomato paste, etc. Saleh also opened a small shop in Kabala’s market and employed her nephew to run it. She is planning to expand her business and build a small family house. Saleh said she would like to save some income to build a small house for her grandchildren.
The business you have loaned to, run by Saleh Lie, has made a repaymentof $28.00. The total amount repaid is now $140.00. This repayment will be divided amongst all the lenders who helped to fund this business, depending upon the percentage each lender contributed.
Find out more about Kiva, micro-loans, and how you can get involved by reading on Saleh’s story.
Kiva & Second Life
Educator Fleep Tuque also noted Kiva is making a foray into Second Life, a move I think makes perfect sense, and I noted AM Radio’s charity concert featuring a very talented ColeMarie Soleil and his work on grain sales (AM Radio may share some numbers with me in the future.). In addition Beth Kanter has quite a nice interview on how non-profits can leverage Second Life. (Makes note that someday i need to annote the “collisions” that had to happen to bring me to that concert to hear ColeMarie Soleil and how I later met AM Radio at a charitable build I was involved with.)
Scale of System, Scale of Process
However, and I plan to write on this if my ailing back cooperates (I was trying cartoon stunts in my car again-I have feline blood perhaps..shakes head- I live.) Linden Labs really needs to step up to the plate to make it easier to do. This is based on examining a couple of million worth of Linden micro-transactions that have nothing to do with rentals. As an online Jedi once told me- scale is everything.
Old Ideas - New Terrain
I have my own ideas, based on real-world affiliate marketing mechanisms that people have been writing about for about a decade at Revenews, on how this can be done in a manner that rewards content creators with not only good will, but self sustaining commerce and a better time had by all. Linden Lab cannot do it all, and I appreciate the huge task, but they most enable sustainable creation.
On that note I will add that it isn’t just about charities, but about many newly minted entrepreneurs, many amateur, who support their families or supplement their income on virtual work! This will sound very familiar to those with long time roots in the performance marketing industry now moving into next gen marketing.
For example, a colleague and friend Tim Storm who I met in the late 90’s, always at 2 am on a cruise ship for years it seems. Tim was a one-man shop, like myself, and now runs an ethical and vibrant community providing dozens of jobs and serious dollars. The conferences have morphed over the years and now Affiliate Summit is a gathering of well over a thousand twice a year. Metaverse developers and creators- think “partnership” or I can point you to a historical blueprint that will show how 96% of you, me, and who knows- will probably fare.
Monolith 8 to Primula Rasa
Speaking of which some have asked about Monlith 8 (my own operation that continues) and now Primula Rasa, a project design lead by the talented, and prototypical developer in his own right, Timeless Prototype. An individual I really regreted not getting to meet in Chicago. The questions are in particular around my role n the build (e.g. the big space ship?). Right now I am sustaining it- let’s see how that goes.
As for the build let us leave it at this- a study of artificial life, micro-transactions, genetics, evolving story lines and system dynamics. This is stage one and hardly out of development…but feel free to drop in and explore. Rhetorically I ask perhaps we need less emphasis on the virtual campus and using the technology to create useful or thought provoking simulations? At any rate this is the result over a long series of conversations on metaverse history (thanks to Prokofky Neva for ranting enough that I got some clues from the Sim’s Exodus) with a number of some of the top thinkers in the Second Life metaverse…(so glad you all found Monolith 8).
Pictures & An Out Take or Two
For the amusement of some a few out-take photos during the build process- note leaping was not programmed into the organisms behavior and you will find the current ones are far more colorful than the original grey- evolution?. As an aside, this one has nothing to do with Primula Rasa, but I find it quite amusing. 
And it hurts to laugh right now. Another great photo by krystine qinan. The only “ghost fish” and a gorgeous shot of the actual ghost fish cave.
You can find it covered here at the Grid Live (on the fish) and an overview here- even a beta photo using Wind Light. Ian also has a great write-up at Eightbar with lots of stunning photos.
The things that initially attracted my attention were the fish that Timeless has created. Not only are they fantasticaly articulated and organic in their swimming motion but whilst we were talking the fish took an interest in us and congregated around the jetty we were on. Timeless days he has seen all sorts of unprogrammed but interesting behaviour as the fish take an interest in their surroundings and each other. He got me to hover in the water and a fish decided to lift me up and ‘rescue me’ clearly not scared of the predator AV
Having spent a little time watching things grow and happen it is intriguing how much more involved you can feel as the environment changes around you. The fascination of both the simple patterns of nature with the uniqueness of each part of the landscape as things grow and then die to respawn elsewhere is really good.
I know that under the covers there are some intersting pieces of code, but like all good alife it seems simple, the rules are simple, yet it causes (just like simple flocking) a very complex looking and attractive feel
In the old pictures the description reads like this:
Primula Rasa: An Interactive and Immersive Experience
Do you enjoy new realms? Do you like to curate or study organisms? Let your imagination free at Primula Rasa- the Primitive Slate….Still Under Wraps…for now…
Now reads:
Primula Rasa
Two forces converge from hyperspace to unlock the secrets of beings thought long gone from the Delphic System. Studying the land of Ever-Motion holds surprises both sinister and beautiful . Primula Rasa- the Primitive Slate…Stage I There is a notecard updater system provided by Jiminy Roo. If you want the occasional update as the build will change as the story line progresses. We are also entertaining sponsorships, but that is down the line. Right now feedback is great- feel free to drop me a notecard with any thoughts…I simply can’t answer every IM, but will read every single one. Virtual Rumors I also plan to put some rumors to rest shortly, like the acquisition of the islands Delphic, Tacitus, Phaedrus and Daedalus, or a alleged buyout of a famous avatars digital creations- ColeMarie Soleil perhaps? and the odd or end-am I the same Wayne Porter in Playboy advisor this month (obviously yes considering some of the e-mail)? Or perhaps my avatar (we are NOT the same- I cannot reign him in) actually told the SL citizen police and fire marshall that Prok was his mother or some strange tale and that is why he needed locked up while trying to simulate a miniature riot (it was a joke). Let’s put that one to rest- of course he did and was informed of his retardation via Twitter (not to mention her own). Never take things or self too seriously. Of course the academic question might be- were events on Twitter causing the large crowd to grow inside the metaverse during the “simulated arrest’ acting as an outside catalyst or is this just a case of Nassim Nicholas Talebitis? (Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and Life) “My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know….” (You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment & make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race). Well Mr. Clark of GMD… I really don’t know! Popularity: 7% [?]
