It always amazes me how fluid and ever-changing the internet seems to be. It runs from one extreme to another. One webpage might have been frozen in time for months and even years without change, probably wildly out-of-date and no longer relevant. Another webpage might appear one day and disappear the next.
These somewhat pessimistic thoughts are provoked by the discovery that Benja Kepler and the excellent video tutorial blog he/she was keeping on WordPress has vanished into thin air. The blog has been deleted and the video “How to leave Orientation Island” seems to have been removed from YouTube. According to the ‘Snap’ preview, the last entry on the blog was over 31 weeks ago. There is a brief cut-off snippet in the ‘Snap’ preview window about removing the vidtuts because they might be now, or become in the future, rather confusing.
However, with a little diligent searching, I managed to find Benja’s YouTube Video Index:
Benja Kepler on YouTube
and clicked on the “How to Leave Orientation Island” … to find that the link still works. The video came up for me. Anyone else care to try it out and see if it works for you too?
There’s that mutability issue again, isn’t it? Second Life is changing all the time in response to its citizens needs (or their needs as perceived by the Second Life management) and things become out-of-date.
Of course, there’s still the official Second Life Wiki page where you can find all the SL video tutorials:
Second Life Wiki – Video Tutorials
It’s just a matter of knowing where to look ๐