There's a lot going on each day. Sometimes I'm almost pressured to report on it all—but then I realize, as I have many times before, there are already a lot of great people doing just that in this world, and I breathe a sigh of relief and continue to pen what I do.
A good example would be the new Second Life Economic Statistics page we've got, which Walker Spaight (Mark Wallace) and Zero Grace (Tony Walsh) have covered. I read and enjoy their blogs a lot—they're real professionals. When I think of them, I see a couple of very experienced guys with clangin' away over manual typewriters, like the hard-boiled film-noir detectives of cinema gone by. In an odd anachronism, I see them wearin' wizard hats—like Merlin. I don't think they have courier boys, so I imagine them getting the scoop fresh from the cyber-streets (I'm aware some will cringe at this very 90s effigy). Altho, I haven't seen either of them inworld in so long… and that is my PoR (Point-of-Reference) for so many of my own tales.
My own take on the SL Economic Stats is that: SORETOOTH FINALLY GOT DENTAL WORK! A headline in itself. I know how much it had been asked for, numerous times, including on the Land and the Economy forum (appropriately 'nuff). What strikes me especially is not so much the numbers themselves, but the design of the page: I think it's quite beautiful. The little dotted seperators, the way the info is formatted and presented for perusal (incl. for the curious!), and the downloadable raw data files too for those in tune with the grit. As an enduser Linden, I already lauded massive praise to my coworkers who did this, hoping for more. You know how it goes, "It's a step in the right direction" or "We're traveling on a longer road" or my fave, "A piece of a bigger puzzle". THE HUNGER.