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The Meme Thread

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You can blame"Dancing with the Tsars"for inspiring this whole discussion!

The Meme Thread

General Discussion

Though I appreciate a good meme now & again, I've always hesitated to clutter up the Photo Section with them so I thought I'd create a discussion where we could post our favourites.

Have fun!

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 09 Jan 2017 09:36:25PM

How to build an information time machine.

History

This TED Talk is somewhat geeky & truly fascinating:

How to build an information time machine.

Imagine if you could surf Facebook ... from the Middle Ages. Well, it may not be as far off as it sounds. In a fun and interesting talk, researcher and engineer Frederic Kaplan shows off the Venice Time Machine, a project to digitize 80 kilometers of books to create a historical and geographical simulation of Venice across 1000 years. (Filmed at TEDxCaFoscariU.)

I'd absolutely love to be working on this project! What about you?

So to conclude, we can say that research in the humanities is about to undergo an evolution which is maybe similar to what happened to life sciences 30 years ago. It's really a question of scale. We see projects which are much beyond any single research team can do, and this is really new for the humanities, which very often take the habit of working in small groups or only with a couple of researchers. When you visit the Archivio di Stato, you feel this is beyond what any single team can do, and that should be a joint and common effort. So what we must do for this paradigm shift is actually foster a new generation of "digital humanists" that are going to be ready for this shift.

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 06 Oct 2016 06:36:11AM

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Photo: History Returns [Rossiyskaya Imperiya]

This reminded me of the quote:

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

so I thought that I would point out (for those that are new & so can't possibly remember) that the driving force behind[Rossiyskaya Imperiya] (owners, officers, relatives, alts, etc.) were involved in some dicey situations over the years including the demise of Versailles and the Royal Court of Naples debacle.

Buyer Beware as they say.

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Couldn't resist adding a bit more.

When I think about driving myself crazy trying to protect my content in SL I always think about this scene from Jumanji.

Poor Carl yelling "FINE, TAKE IT!!"

Really, it's just so much better to let it go and deal with it after the fact

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Many thanks for your kind words Jacon and for the support of both yourself & Antiquity. They are very much appreciated.

Some thoughts about content theft. We all know that it's really easy to steal from SL and as a creator I know the sick feeling of standing in the midst of your hijacked goods. It's an instinctive reaction but then logic kicks in.

What can really be done with that stolen content? Put it up for sale & you're going to be caught. Build a private region or hang out on some obscure grid with a few of your like-minded friends. Go for it. Once you open it up to the public you're going to be caught. The historical community is small enough that there's really no place to hide.

Once the reputations of your older avatars are trashed you may just end up pretending you're a newbie from Thailand who just happens to have the same old friends & belongs to the same old groups. Sad really. All that effort that could have been put to a better use.

So I'm going to keep on creating because it makes me happy to do so and I would encourage all the other creators to do the same. Even if you've been burned in the past, perhaps it's time to give it another shot as we're all a bit older & wiser now

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Your original account was banned from this site in 2013 but it was still worth your while to sneak back in on another account so apparently even you found some value here.

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*** ETA This post and the ones directly following were in reply to a post that has subsequently been removed (by the poster)NOT the one directly above. The answers are a bit confusing now because the original context is gone ***

Please don't be embarrassed as that certainly isn't the intent of the cleanup.

The multiple Alt thing is a SL problem and so there's not much that can be done about it. The SL avatar name actually is required to register & should be on the page (though it can be changed).

The majority of our members are here to network with people of similar interests and to do that you really have to give people the benefit of the doubt.

I think that the worst outcome would be if all trust was lost; so sad that a select few could spoil the fun for everyone else. Fortunately, I don't believe that will ever happen as there are many solid connections here where real trust has been earned over the years

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Dear Members

I've always felt that the raison d'tre of this site is facilitating communication & fostering a community vision for all those interested in exploring history via virtual worlds.

I truly feel that we're better/stronger working together & supporting each other.

Given this objective I've tried to keep the site as inclusive as possible; welcoming everyone and insisting on courtesy in all of our interactions. Everyone knows I'm always harping on the site being a "Drama Free Zone"

The downside of this inclusive approach is that it can occasionally provide a platform that the dishonest/disreputable take advantage of. I've always been a bit concerned that membership may lend a certain amount of credibility where none is actually implied.

Acting as both judge & jury isn't something that I relish and I don't always have the time to investigate individuals/groups with the due diligence I feel necessary to take action. Though I've always claimed "My site; My Rules" I've never wanted to be hasty in my decisions.

Having said all that, I've recently taken time to review some of the information I've collected over the years and I will be cleaning up the site based on patterns that have become evident. Right or wrong, there are people I just don't trust (for various reasons) and providing them with a means of networking with others really seems counterproductive.

Please note that I won't be giving detailed explanations to anyone as the ensuing drama would be endless. I'd rather spend my time in more positive endeavors and hopefully you all will too.

Many thanks!

Tatiana

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 09 Apr 2019 08:38:19PM

Archeologists may have solved mystery of the 'Lost Colony'

History

Well that's interesting!

Roanoke has been on my mind lately as I've just re-read "It" by Stephen King. It also gets mentioned in Haven & Sleep Hollow(theTV shows).

It would be nice to think that these settlersmanaged to liveout their lives in Native American communities instead of the fictional accounts of theirhorribledemise