I believe the bright Koz Farina was the first to coin the term "secondlifecasting" (at least from Google searches), and it's a good one. I've observed there are a few people on YouTube who are immensely successful, whose videos don't consist of big-budget productions — but rather, they speak earnestly and often rant into the (web)camera. Sometimes, like Magibon, they stare. I've been inspired to do my own line of "happy rants".
I haven't seen Be Kind Rewind, but I like the term "swedeing", as it refers to resourceful ingenuity and using what scraps you have to do the best you can in (re)creating something, be it blockbuster movies (as featured in the flick) or something else.
I favor "cheap 'n' cheerful" approaches. Bureaucracy and longwinded processes of getting stuff approved make me angry because not only are they slow and inefficient, the end result often isn't proportionally better than a quicker approach would've been for the greater amount of time invested. Hey, if I'm going to spend 500% of the time planning something out, it better get me at least 500% of the results. Not all that can be measured, but laughter is easy to feel…
This is why I have a lot of appreciation for improv standup comedy. Even that hairy Robin Williams (who is one of my faves), because he disrupts boringness in the most playful of ways. Yeah, that's it… he's a boredom disruptor!
Pieces of the puzzle to enable effective comedy within and its delivery from Second Life are coming together: previously, sequentially spat-out lines of text chat had has much entertainment value as, well, reading any joke webpage with an autoscroller. But now, we have voice chat, and it isn't inconceivable to believe that past a gauntlet of performance & stability challenges in the far future, our avatars will have the giggly, jiggly emotiveness that our First Life bodies do, and perhaps without the cost-prohibitive bulk of a full-scale motion capture studio.
So beyond a defined realm of strict education, what about "secondlifecasting"? Someone(s) exploring Second Life and sharing their raw, candid, mostly-unedited observations with compelling narration? And not just a one-off, but a series? Who's already doing this? "Real-world" videobloggers who wear cameras on their hats and come across like youthful disciples of Gordon Bell aren't in shortage; the inworld path is somewhat trickier because of a longwinded production path, altho tools like WeGame — with its easy record-and-upload — have helped to bridge the chasm. Second Life's carefully-crafted machinima stars continue to rise, but where for art are our spontaneous secondlifecasters?
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I've done a few for Stuart Warf's prim experiments, a few dirt-simple parodies of a certain person's very helpful tutorials, and Radar Masukami's been posting his explorations on the video side of SLPN recently.
Oh, and Zoe's been posting dogfight and flight videos.
@Crap: Oh my gosh! How did I miss those! Well in any case, I have you to thank so now I can check 'em out… got direct links?