Linden Lab launches a bunch of blogs

by Tateru Nino Feb 25th 2009 at 9:00PM

Filed under: News items, Opinion, Second Life, Virtual worlds

After a comparatively quiet period for communications, Linden Lab has relaunched the blog -- or blogs, in this case (we count seven blogs altogether, so far), presenting us with more talk than we've seen from the Lab in quite some time. The new blogs (migrated now from Wordpress to Jive's Clearspace) certainly seems to have that 2005 feel that came with the original Linden blogs, only with more polish.

The new blogs are Features, Press, Land (and sea), Technology, Eureka (an inworld showcase), Working Inworld, and Community. ~~Only a very few~~ All of the posts [thanks Yoz!] from the old blog have been migrated to the new system. We're not aware of any especial comment limits, but a moderation policy has been announced as a part of the package, and commenters must log in with their Second Life account credentials before commenting.

Overall, at present it is a bit like a new series premiere. It's full of introductions and setup, but at this stage it is a little too early to tell how it is all going to work out in the longer term.

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Tags: clearspace, jive-software, linden-lab, opinion, second-life, virtual-worlds, wordpress

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nightbird Glineux said on 11:19PM 2-25-2009

I don't know much about the technology of blogs.

Is there some way to unite these into one feed?

Tateru Nino said on 11:32PM 2-25-2009

I think http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/feeds/allcontent provides an RSS feed for the whole lot. It seems there are more than just seven basic blogs lurking in there.

thelastdirewolf said on 1:37AM 2-26-2009

I spawned in SL on October 3rd, 2006, so I never got a chance to see the old blog, but seeing THIS new blog, I could only shake my head. It's a bit cluttered, and confusing, why make and link to upwards (if not over) 7 separate blogs...On what used to be one main blog that featured everything? Sure, comments were not as easily moderated, and limited to 150 posts, but why not build off of something so simple? I hope that link above me truly feeds as a traditional single blog like it used to, because that's all that is needed.

Yoz Linden said on 2:22AM 2-26-2009

Many thanks for the coverage! One correction, though: All of the content from the old WordPress blog *has* been migrated over. It's all currently residing in the "Features" channel (though we may migrate some entries to their own sections in the future). To browse it, head to https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features and check the left sidebar.

Tateru Nino said on 2:32AM 2-26-2009

Oops. We should have seen that, I imagine. Still getting used to the layout.

zai said on 4:14AM 2-26-2009

hm... can't confirm that all content is transfered. I'm pretty sure that this post had more content than just a headline: http://bit.ly/xmsy6

Tateru Nino said on 4:21AM 2-26-2009

It's surprising to see the comments there, but the content missing.

Jay said on 4:24AM 2-26-2009

Gratz Lindens for undoing the fracture, but as an ex-long term player (a real oldbie) the situation in 2006-2007 was better, a single blog with links onto the opening screen.

Sure you will get some who cry "You are posting happy stories to wipe the massive database loss off the screen" but generally...

It is easier.

One place to inform them all.

Katt's mistake was spilitting it and this isn't that much different.

One blog.

Tateru Nino said on 5:29AM 2-26-2009

Status reports and grid problems are still off on a separate blog. We're wondering if information about updates and whatnot will make it back to the main blogs now.

zai said on 1:38PM 2-26-2009

Yeah, but there are also whole postings missing. I just noticed it 'cause I invested quite some time into research for the "History of Second Life" article in the SL Wiki a few days earlier http://bit.ly/l6j66

For example, the first reference "Historical Movie - LindenWorld August 2001" is gone :-S

Garn said on 5:41AM 2-26-2009

Tat, the grid status link got misplaced when they launched the blog. I've talked to Blue about it and he's gonna poke some of the heads also about a 'colour code' idea I had as well. Yea there are way more than 7 blogs... those 7 are just the main catagories. Be easier if you could pick your 'main blogs' to show on the main page IMO. Took me a while before I found the RC blog under Technology. A site map is really needed, Blue mentioned that the right side might be expanded into one but I think he agrees with that point as well :)

TigroSpottystripes Katsu said on 10:08AM 2-26-2009

will I have to do anything to get the blog posts in my email again? (btw, would it be possible to have a similar system on Massivelly, to email me the posts with the tags I want? )