It is with sadness that I announce NPIRL will be closing after 750 posts that introduced us all the the most amazing places, artists and content creators on the grid.
I was a terribly lucky noob. I found NPIRL within my first week of joining SL, and if not for Bettina Tizzy and the NPIRL blog I would have quit. To this day I still read older posts on the NPIRL blog. Bettina has championed and promoted SL artists and shown us all the very best of what people are capable of creating on Second Life. I’m hoping despite the fact the blog won’t be updated, she will find a different way of informing us of the very best art of Second Life. And if I can get totally mushy for a moment, meeting Bettina was probably the luckiest thing to happen to me on the grid. Not only have a met a cherished friend with her (I jokingly call her my emergency contact person) but she has also introduced me to people I consider some of my best friends on Second Life. She has promoted my projects on SL, helped me with numerous issues, has been there whenever I have needed a friend.
Thank you Bettina for all your hard work, your tireless promotion, your unconditional support, your excitement and wonder that you have brought to showing us all how the impossible is made possible in Second Life. You are very loved.
And in closing if I can get mushy one more time, I think the last few days have shown us how important it is to really cherish the people who matter to us, RL, SL. I’m focusing on that at present. I hope everyone else is too.
Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other.
NPIRL quitting tells us what we need to know. It is over.
it is, isn't it?
i agree. and perhaps, its better this way
The last one leaving, please, turn off the lights.
I've been in SL a long time (over 4 years) and I'm ashamed to admit that I've never heard of NPIRL. Why do I discover these things now that they are finished?
Youre not alone. Ive not heard of this either.
Is the blog still up? Id like to browse through it.
Sorry, yes, I should have mentioned this, it will remain up so you can look through the archives
http://npirl.blogspot.com/
http://npirl.blogspot.com/
Judging from Hamlet Au's (barking dog chained outside LL's door) gushing and rather forceful insistence that Second Life needs to move to facebook (he would not be saying these idiotic things unless told to) I can see why Rosedale and now everyone else is phasing out of Second Life. Facebook is yesterday's news and Klingdon is moving Second Life from being a leader to a follower of idiotic fads.
Facebook? Just remember to file a DMCA on your way out of SL requiring LL delete everything you ever made to deprive LL the marketing opportunity of your content.
No wonder people are leaving SL. A sad time for us all.
NO! We need this blog!!! Can't she pass the torch to someone?
I have always relied on this blog to show me all that is spectacular and awe-inspiring in SL. It opened my eyes to a whole new universe. Before I discovered NPIRL, I thought SL was only about sex and shopping.
I'm sorry I never thanked Bettina for it until now . . . when she's leaving.
I can only imagine how much time and focus it took to maintain the NPIRL blog and in-world groups all this time. I hope Bettina and the other NPIRLers continue to explore and share their findings of amazing builds and events in some fashion. There's so much happening in SL at any given moment that it's easy to miss things, so I hope even if the torch can't be directly passed that enough people are still interested in discovering amazing things that the information still flows in some way. I know there's got to be a million things I still haven't seen.
Yes, this will be sadly missed.
I haven’t heard of it either
how about creating a wiki for this, that got group access from NPIRL members?
Or maybe that’s something better be done on a blog containing identified guest postings. For split second just thought that’s incorporateable into some official LL wiki, but dropped the thought after some considering.
There is Flickr, too