Flat Ebbe Linden: The Age of Enlightenment
Bloggers' Corner
From what I can see, Ebbe is actually making progress on my first two points. It seems that Lindens are now being allowed back inworld and are being encouraged to do so. It also seems like he is taking a closer look at Educational initiatives.
I saw many calls for SL to broaden their marketing to include more than just "kids in bikinis" or vampires so we'll have to wait and see how that goes.
As for the financial breaks on land pricing, it's such a complicated issue. You have to have the statistics in order to do a proper analysis and so far LL hasn't been very good at that. We can only hope that they start running the numbers and gradually implementing changes.
Of course, SL RP is of concern to many ofour groups here and we've had a number of discussions about the difficulties & challenges of managing a RP community. Changing the "Culture of Free" in SL on the SLU forum is a very interesting read (all sixteen pages of it - lol).
This discussion helped to reinforce my own thoughts on the feasibility of SL RP. People often start a RP community with the idea that they can "build it and they will come". Most of these communities only survive for a brief time. Some bow out gracefully while others implode spectacularly leaving casualties in their wake.
I think that it's important to note that LL land pricing changes won't help these types of "vanity projects". It really requires clear thinking, a good business plan, and endless effort to make a go of these communities.
As a side note, I don't use the phrase "vanity projects" as a pejorative term. After all, I'm the proud owner/creator of the Petit Trianon my very own vanity project. It's just that I don't expect LL or anyone else to be throwing money at me to keep it going just because I personally think it's a grand idea. 
