Catherine Smith presents Inside Linden Lab
by Tateru Nino 
Dec 22nd 2007 at 12:00AM
Filed under: Podcasts, News items, Second Life
Catherine Linden (Catherine Smith) is doing a new Linden Lab podcast called Inside Linden Lab. The first episode features Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab.
During the course of the 'cast, Rosedale does specifically contradict Gene Yoon by consistently referring to the economy, where Yoon has previously insisted no such economy in Second Life exists.
There's very little new material. Philip and Catherine say that (to them) Second Life appears to have changed very little in two years, and that brand marketing efforts only seem to be a very small portion of the corporate usage of Second Life, much of which is actually internal use.
Maybe I'm fussy, but it felt a little over-scripted, like some of it is being read aloud - there's also some reverberation from the room, so some people may find it difficult to listen to or to understand if you have hearing difficulties or problem processing speech.
We're promised more podcasts with other Linden Lab staff in the coming year.
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Lara said on 10:02PM 12-24-2007
I listened to the podcast. I could not agree more with your comment about Catherine's "interview" of Philip being over scripted.
For as sophisticated as the technology is, this podcast is dry, dull and boring.
Why aren't they creating and posting machinima versions of the interviews?
Why aren't the interviews conducted inside Second Life?
Catherine may want to listen to several of the interviews conducted by Beyers Sellers (Dr. Robert Bloomfield). He leads dynamic interviews themed around metanomics that keep me coming back week after week.
She also may want to take lessons from Linden Labs very own Torley Linden. His "Tip of the Week" series is so dynamic I tune in just to see what he does and not necessarily because I am interested in the topic.
When I saw Catherine's post announcing the podcasts I tuned in with anticipation. However if her interviews continue in this manner, I will not be listening to future podcasts.
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