SL Literary Festival 2008 > Got Lit?
Yes, we did it on Saturday, 2 February 2008, from 8A – 6P SLT. We had a fabulous time, had excellent speakers, wonderful mix of jamming tunes from Radio Riel's DJ Elrik Merlin and from DJ Doubledown Tandino.
Dulcie Mills has published an article on the lit fest in the Metaverse Messenger (pages 30-31): http://www.metaversemessenger.com.
FESTIVAL PRESENTATIONS
This week I'll be adding transcripts and links to the streaming audio/MP3 downloads for the presentations.
9A - 10A: Sam Chupp (SL: Alexander Basiat) He will speak about how to start podcasting, why podcasting is important, and what libraries can do to integrate podcasts into their content offering.
10A – 11A: Selina Greene (book and publishing communities in SL and RL books in SL)
11A – 12: Eadoin Welles (Italian author / IBM Italia sim), “Fantasy in Italy.”
SL Lit Fest 2008 Presentations, Info Island (110, 101, 33)
1P: Treasure Hunt officially starts at the reference desk – plenty of prizes in the treasure chest at the end -- including L$500!!!
Info International, Info International (125, 240, 34)
1P – 2P: Marilyn Johnson (Marilena Basevi) will read from her book The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries, which HarperPerennial published last year in paperback. She will also talk about her current research chasing librarians into the far corners of the real and the virtual worlds.
2P - 3P: Steve Miller and Sharon Lee (Authors of the SF Liaden Universe series) Fledgling and Saltation: Living Under The Shadow of the Digital Deadline. The history and some of the benefits and pitfalls of internet serialization.
3P – 4P: Glenn Manewell (SL: Tristan Meriman); will read excerpts from the Summary of the Last War of the Ashivah Series. The Last War of the Ashivah follows the final desperate struggle of an ancient Battle Order of augmented humans as they attempt to halt an attack on the fabric of the Universe Herself. The last Ashivah Battle Circle has been awoken, weak and damaged by sabotage after many millions of years of sleep and the few, ordinary men from Earth who are called upon to receive the power that is now theirs are neither ready nor want the task and duty that is now theirs. Yet they endure, demonstrating the very greatest of human courage, resourcefulness and inspiration in this last, great war of their Order.