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[[wiki-feedback]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=wiki-feedback&diff=0&oldid=9514 * Tantek * (+536) some links and follow-ups
tantek is Tantek <http://tantek.com> and works on Technorati and develops microformats <http://microformats.org>
mlinksva is Mike Linksvayer and from Creative Commons
[[wiki-feedback]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=wiki-feedback&diff=0&oldid=9515 * BenWest * (+263) Complaints: - added a complaint about not being able to find a list of goals from Mike
[[wiki-feedback]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=wiki-feedback&diff=0&oldid=9516 * BenWest * (+384) added a section to the bottom to propose some process to accompany this page
[[wiki-feedback]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=wiki-feedback&diff=0&oldid=9517 * BenWest * (+159) replied to tantek's comment regarding roger and names in hcards
[[wiki-feedback]] M http://microformats.org/wiki?title=wiki-feedback&diff=0&oldid=9518 * BenWest * (-2) How Does This Work? - just changed the heading level
[[faq]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=faq&diff=0&oldid=9519 * BenWest * (+234) Class semantics - added a FAQ for elements being able to contain multiple classes. needs work; see todo note inline.
[[to-do]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=to-do&diff=0&oldid=9520 * MikeSchinkel * (+2032) Information Architecture - Added "Mike Schinkel's Comments"
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[[wiki-feedback]] M http://microformats.org/wiki?title=wiki-feedback&diff=0&oldid=9521 * BenWest * (+50) Complaints: - signed my name on a comment
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veeliam is William Lawrence of Quiddities Dev out of Santa Cruz and he does something at http://zaxbypass.com and here and there
bengee is Benjamin Nowack (http://bnode.org/)
danja is Danny Ayers, http://dannyayers.com
trovster is a web developer from the UK who writes on http://www.trovster.com and helps with www.multipack.co.uk
[[wiki-feedback]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=wiki-feedback&diff=0&oldid=9523 * AndyMabbett * (+87) Complaints: - clarifications
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[[wiki-feedback]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=wiki-feedback&diff=0&oldid=9525 * AndyMabbett * (+159) Complaints: - What is currently described as a "specification" is no such thing
[[wiki-feedback]] M http://microformats.org/wiki?title=wiki-feedback&diff=0&oldid=9526 * AndyMabbett * (+1) Complaints: - She's never orked a cow
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BenWard is Ben Ward of http://ben-ward.co.uk (+0000/+0100 GMT)
drewinthehead is the author of hKit and a developer for Yahoo! Europe
tantek is Tantek <http://tantek.com> and works on Technorati and develops microformats <http://microformats.org>
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veeliam is William Lawrence of Quiddities Dev out of Santa Cruz and he does something at http://zaxbypass.com and here and there
McNulty is Ciaran McNulty (http://ciaranmcnulty.com)
[[mailing]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/mailing * AndyMabbett * (+27) redirect
[[mail]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/mail * AndyMabbett * (+27) redirect
[[email]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/email * AndyMabbett * (+27) redirect
Can anyone tell me whether the hAtom author markup I've used at http://test.ciaranmcnulty.com is valid?
[[e-mail]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/e-mail * AndyMabbett * (+27) redriect
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[[mailinglist]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/mailinglist * AndyMabbett * (+27) redirect
Looks good to me
[[discuss]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/discuss * AndyMabbett * (+27) redirect
hatom2atom doesn't seem to like the a.include on the author
Can add hatom to the body, but it's implied (AFAIK)
oh I hought hfeed was the root element
[[dev]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/dev * AndyMabbett * (+27) redirect
You can have multiple hfeeds per page, too
hm
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Maybe hatom2atom just doens't like a.include
Quite possibly.
[[Template talk]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/Template_talk * AndyMabbett * (+27) redirect
You know, the fn is implied in the vcard.
Also, why is the class name Vcard where everything else is Hanything
[[Help]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/Help * AndyMabbett * (+27) redirect
[[help]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/help * AndyMabbett * (+27) rediect
because hCard uses the vCard element names
and the root element in vCard is 'vcard'
The fn is implied but I may as well stick it in there anyhow, eh
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[[hAtom]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/hAtom * AndyMabbett * (+19) redirect
[[Calendar]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/Calendar * AndyMabbett * (+23)
[[calendar]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/calendar * AndyMabbett * (+23) redriect
[[cal]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/cal * AndyMabbett * (+23) redirect
[[ical]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/ical * AndyMabbett * (+23) redirect
[[iCal]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/iCal * AndyMabbett * (+23) redirect
[[vCard]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/vCard * AndyMabbett * (+19) redirect
[[vcard]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/vcard * AndyMabbett * (+19) reirect
[[card]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/card * AndyMabbett * (+19) redirect
[[Card]] N http://microformats.org/wiki/Card * AndyMabbett * (+19) redirect
what's with all the redirects?
Andy Mabbett tidying up I suppose
are these actual pages that people have looked for (e.g. from logs), or is it just theoretical words that people might look for?
I don't know, I'm not aware of a public log though so I'd guess the latter
It doesn't hurt anything though
I suppose not.
I wonder what policy Wikipedia has on introducing/adding redirects.
With object.include / a.include, does the include *replace* the inclusion element, or become a child of it?
is that not clear in the spec?
i thought the examples made that clear - if not, we should improve the examples
ah actually re-reding the spec I glossed over that bit
hm. I think i'm asking a slightly different question and have phrased it badly
If my A has other classes than include, does the transcluded element inherit them?
I am doing <a class="include author"> in an hAtom entry, and don't know if that's valid
none of the examples on the include-pattern page cover additional classes in the include, so I guess not
Try adding author to the vcard, and see if that chnages, if not, it's just not supported in the parser
[[to-do]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=to-do&diff=0&oldid=9530 * Phae * (+49) Frances Berriman -
Adding author to the vcard does't work
pasting the vcard element in place does
I guess hatom2atom just doesn't support the include pattern?
McNulty - that is most probable
[[events]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=events&diff=0&oldid=9531 * John Allsopp * (+264) Upcoming -
tantek - would <a class="include author" href="#vcard"></a> be a valid use of the pattern? Or would it need to be <span class="author"><a class="include" href="#vcard" ></a></span> ?
McNulty, this is an excellent question
I can see a case for either interpretation.
gsnedders is a 14 year old idiot from Scotland and pretends to have a website at http://geoffers.uni.cc/
I would say the former, as the latter gives <span class="author"><element class="vcard">
does the former give <element class="vcard author">? Is there that sort of 'class inheritance'?
I would assume that, yes
I imagine the most common impementation is to just have a.include and have the additional classes on the targetted element
I wouldn't assume that.
The simplest implementation is pure replacement.
Which is what I would lean towards in the spec
I do wonder what the common rel-include parsers are doing, I'll ask on the mailing list maybe.
McNulty, yes, it would be interesting to see what the implementations ended up implementing.
It is interesting, I was talking with drewinthehead about a-include pattern, and what takes preference if the same values exist
yes, hKit behaviour is currently sub-optimal in this area
trovster, what do you mean by same valies?
er, values
Well, we just discussed it drewinthehead :)
fn is required if it's just the org, so I had < class="fn org"> then included that into a specific PERSONs vcard. In drewinthehead's implementation (the a-include comes after the vcard itself) the fn is replaced with the .fn.org
csarven is Sarven Capadisli and can be found online at http://www.csarven.ca
trovster - because once the include is done, your card has multiple FNs?
Yes. Correct.
and that's the parser's fault? ;-:
:-)
Erm...
... imo, the including vcard should take preference.
Which, if it isn't the case, then the fn/org assumption needs to be reviewed. As I would think this is a fairly common problem. Company as the name of the site, and personal pages including that information
What I mean is, what's the expected behaviour when encountering multiple FNs? Or other elements that are meant to be singular?
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing says: "Some properties, like "fn", should only appear once, and thus the parser stops looking for the property after it has found the first occurrence in document order. Additional occurrences are ignored."
Exactly. I don't know what the expected behaviour is, I just mentioned what I would expect to happen.
Theres not really any inclusion-awareness, I guess
Ok, so assuming the a-include is at the bottom of the vcard, the fn IN the main vcard should take preference.
So it *should* use the person's FN as long as it comes first...
yes, indeed
You're right though, it might be worth introducing some sort of exception for that in inclusion
I wouldn't like to write the parsers!
Maybe it should look for the first non-included element, and only then search the included sections.
If your A[@class="include"] is after your FN and hKit is using the one from the include, it's probably not quite right
Depends whether the assumption is ordering (therefore a-include COULD be first and override those within the specific vcard) or whether the included information is lower preference *always*
yeah
McNulty: Yes, this is what drewinthehead and I assumed.
For now it's proably a good idea to put includes as late as possible, on the basis that parsers would treat it as simple replacement first, and *then* do the actual parsing (that's a big assumption on my part).
that's not how hKit works
hKit runs through and finds values, and puts them in the correct box
parsing the includes as they're discovered
there's a bug where I'm not checking if there's already something in the box when doing the includes, so the first-finds get overwritten
but i don't build a tree first and parse it second
ah, right
so it'll currently always take the last value?
Yup, that's what it seems like.
yeah
i need to find time and push out a new release
anyone coming to WSG this week?
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er... what's going on with the wiki?
Last time it was 2 OK presentations and a too-loud (not learnt their lesson yet) after-party venue. A lot to travel for, really. But this is three on a topic I like... but then again, might be going over topics I know
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probably most of it will be, trovster
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spam...
Norm is doing basics, then Jeremy more advanced stuff and implementations
then me waffling on about APIs
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So, I don't think I'll bother.
charmed, i'm sure ;)
Hope it goes well, though
yeah, i really don't think it'll be worth all the travel, as you know the stuff being covered anyway
plus there's slides which i'm sure will be online
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all clear
drewinthehead, does your include-pattern implementation keep existing classes when resolving rel-includes ?
keep existing classes?
i overwrite values at the moment
ah, that's what I predicted
McNulty - it appears you have your answer
it's because i'm a lame-ass :)
hm
drewinthehead, how difficult would it be to *keep* existing classes on the include
?
not difficult at all .. i just need to check if the value exists before assigning.
drewinthehead - tantek's specfically talking about this http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006449.html
ah, gotcha
hmm .. i'd need to look carefully, but i suspect that additional classes on an include item are respected
the use case that McNulty provides is an interesting one and worthy of consideration for the "keep existing classes" behavior
(by chance rather than forethought)
So your parser would find the 'author', then go 'oh, it's an include' and parse it?
I think the classes should be added to the included, so you *don't* end up with <span class="author"><element class="vcard">
remi is Remi Prevost, a web developper (yeah, that's how we spell "developer" in french) from Quebec and blogs about web stuff at <http://remiprevost.com/>
right, McNulty
at least, that's what i remember... i'd need to check
Are there instances where a class has to be applied to a certain element type in a microformat?
Dates have to be ABBR sometimes, right?
Does <a class="include updated" href="#foo"></a> [...] <abbr title="2006-07-28" id="foo">28 Jun</abbr> look valid in a case like that?
hmm ... i'd need to check closely
Well the other question is *should* it be valid...
sreynen is Scott Reynen, who makes things at makedatamakesense.com
McNulty, it is currently undecided, and we can decide that based upon whether the use cases are worth the implementation requirement
briansuda is brian suda of http://suda.co.uk and is at (-0000 GMT) and is author of "Using Microformats" for O'Reilly [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/microformats/]
'lo
hi Whiskey_M
sreynen is Scott Reynen, who makes things at makedatamakesense.com
[[mailing-lists]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=mailing-lists&diff=0&oldid=9532 * ScottReynen * (+56) new list proposal -
McNulty is Ciaran McNulty (http://ciaranmcnulty.com)
[[mailing-lists]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=mailing-lists&diff=0&oldid=9533 * Tim White * (+16)
drewinthehead is the author of hKit and a developer for Yahoo! Europe
hey Drew, how goes?
cgriego is Chris Griego (-06:00) and a front-end architect with rd2inc.com
gsnedders is a 14 year old idiot from Scotland and pretends to have a website at http://geoffers.uni.cc/
MacDome is a WebKit hacker emeritus and has a passion for fashion and hacks on webkit more than he should
does the include-pattern require that a.include or object.include elements be empty?
not really, but none of that child data is used
you can have <a href="#me">my hcard!</a>
well, <a href="#me" class="include">my hcard</a>
ah, thanks for the clarification briansuda
mlinksva is Mike Linksvayer and from Creative Commons
xoxo can't be on a table?
[[mailing-lists]] M http://microformats.org/wiki?title=mailing-lists&diff=0&oldid=9534 * JoeAndrieu * (+36)
[[mailing-lists]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=mailing-lists&diff=0&oldid=9535 * Cgriego * (+86) microformats-process reminds me of parsing--processing--more so than even microformats-dev
danja is Danny Ayers, http://dannyayers.com
tantek is Tantek <http://tantek.com> and works on Technorati and develops microformats <http://microformats.org>
[[mailing-lists]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=mailing-lists&diff=0&oldid=9536 * RyanKing * (+337) added not about new ML policy
[[mailing-lists]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=mailing-lists&diff=0&oldid=9537 * RyanKing * (+63) adding wikipedia link for REST
Hi, anyone awake who can tell me how to handle extensions to XFN with regards to altering the profile ?
SignpostMarv - what do you want to add?
rel="avatar", and "avatar-" prefixes to everything except friendship
avatar is not a relationship between people though
it is more a property
like "logo"
or "photo"
which already exist in hCard
It's the only thing we came up with that was a "nice" name to describe virtual persons
mixing the "virtualness" of a person with relationships makes no sense - the two are orthogonal
why not simply use hCard for virtual persons
and add the category/tag "virtual"
?
I'm wanting to use XFN to indicate relationships between the virtual persons, and a natural person cannot "meet" a virtual person, cannot live next a virtual person etc etc, but virtual persons can meet each other and so on inside a virtual world
right, but the label for the relationship shouldn't be any different
except in the case of "met"
all other relationships work fine for virtualness
Perhaps, but not in the context I'm working in
what is the context you are working in?
Second Life
and if you want to expand or come up with an alternative to "met" - you need to come up with a definition of what does it mean to "meet" in your virtual space
and how is it different from "contact"
in otherwords, just having someone's IM lets you "meet" them virtually
or email for that matter
The meaning is the same, but as I understood it, the context of XFN was one of natural person to natural person
where did you get the idea that it excludes virtual representations?
say for instance I go meet Cory Doctorow's avatar in SL, my avatar has met his avatar, but my avatar has not met him, and I have not met his avatar
Also, I was in the other night and I think the exclusion came up
there's also things like Residents having "partners"
the virtual persons have the romantic XFN values, but not the natural persons controlling the virtual persons
sure - so just have separate URLs for the virtual persons. problem solved.
doesn't each secondlife profile have its own URL?
the same relationship values work just fine
SL doesn't have web-based profiles yet
except, as I said, if you want to expand or add a new value for "met" - you have to define what that means
XFN only works with people that URLs
so punt for now
until SL has URLs for profiles
and make that feature request of them
This project I'm working on does tho
then use *those* URLs
and when SL comes out with their URLs, you can use XFN rel="me" identity consolidation to connect them
Internally, SL profiles also have first-life sections (this data isn't reachable with the scripting language)
There's also the issue of how to differentiate between one virtual person indicating another virtual person is an "alt", and a natural person indicating which virtual persons are theirs
the spec doesn't seem to strike me as having that flexibility
"alt"s can be represented with rel="me" links between them
There's also things like it appesr that rel="me" is exclusive of rel="offspring"
you mean child?
yes, you cannot be your own child
yes, I mean child
Torley Wong's avatar is his "daughter"
(Torley Linden btw)
so rel="me child" would be invalid
but rel="avatar child" would not
don't use rel="me" to collapse a person and a virtual person
time for lunch
bbiawhile
anyway - the point is - I don't think there is sufficient justification for any new XFN values, with the exception of *maybe* virtual-met, but *only* if you define it (as requested above) distinctly from "contact"
other than that
you can indicate someone's "virtual person" equivalents using "url" fields in their hCard
People have all kinds of relationships between the virtual persons in SL, this project needs to indicate those relationships, and it made sense to use XFN, but XFN doesn't have quite what it needs to give an accurate portrayal of the relationships
evanpro is Evan Prodromou, info at http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Evan
From what I read, it seemed that if the projected needed to reflect different kinds of relationships, it should declare a different profile
drewinthehead is the author of hKit and a developer for Yahoo! Europe
SignpostMarv - you could start by documenting what the 80/20 of SL relationships are using actual examples
you mean more things like the Torley Wong -> Torley Linden example ?
most of the data regarding relationships between residents isn't accesible from the outside world, so that might be a bit of a headache
How would you suggest going about the process of documenting the relationship types between the virtual and natural persons in SL ?
(documentation has never been my strong suit)
[[hcard]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=hcard&diff=0&oldid=9538 * Finch31 * (+245) New Examples -
[[hcard]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=hcard&diff=0&oldid=9539 * Finch31 * (-5) New Examples -
gah. Technical probs. got booted. Did I miss any responses ?
[[currency-examples]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=currency-examples&diff=0&oldid=9540 * Discoleo * (+662) The Problem -
[[currency-examples]] http://microformats.org/wiki?title=currency-examples&diff=0&oldid=9541 * Discoleo * (+40) The Problem -
briansuda is brian suda of http://suda.co.uk and is at (-0000 GMT) and is author of "Using Microformats" for O'Reilly [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/microformats/]
[[currency-examples]] M http://microformats.org/wiki?title=currency-examples&diff=0&oldid=9542 * AndyMabbett * (-60) wiki markup & expand
can hResume be used to markup tenancy history for people who rent properties ?
interesting thought
or you could just use hCalendar
each tenancy being an event
with a location
and a single attendee
being the person who's history is being documented
so use hCalendar to negate the need for rel="tenant" and rel="landlord" then ?
right
the landlord can be represented as an AGENT of the hCard for the location which is the building
we've been discussing the virtual persons thing while I was unable to connect to IRC
we basically chipped it down to just having "avatar" as an extra value in the identity category
oddly enough, using clark kent > superman as an example :D
superman is an avatar of clark kent, but clark kent is also a friend of superman
and since rel="me friend" seems a bit odd, rel="avatar friend" works for that, as much as rel="avatar child" works for Torley Wong > Torley Linden, it seems to have stuck
we also came to the conclusion that if a natural person "meets" a virtual person- say at a mixed reality event, or through the natural person's own avatar, it is not rel="met", but rel="contact" or rel="acquaintance"
negating the need for any trippy metaverse attributes for meeting
right
i think that makes the most sense for now
so a child meeting santa claus would be....
although we're unsure if the activities of virtual persons should be synchronus with the natural person behind themy
outside the 80/20 usecase
they should be able to be relatively independent
the confusing example:
Person X goes to a mixed reality conference (IBM and Sun have had them in SL recently) as Resident A
i'm not sure a mixed reality conference makes definitional sense
Bigshot Y of the company holding the conference talks with Person X through Resident B
demonic possession like
is the relationship between the two residents different from the relationship between the two people
(coincidentally, my avatar in SL is a demonically possesed albino :P)
it is probably similar to symbiot relationship problems posed by ST:DSN and SG:1
heh
Trillian borked the SG:1 comment
I see an image for :-D between ST and SN
(so not sure what the reference is)
it's a case of answering the question "Do Avatars live their own lives ?"
ST : DSN
DS9 ?
^If you consider an avatar's lives, activities etc to be seperate from the natural person controlling them, then the relationships between virtual persons and from virtual persons to natural persons would be different than the relationships between the natural persons controlling the virtual persons
example:
My avatar has met Torley Wong's avatar, so I a) know how to contact Torley Wong and Torley Linden
b) SignpostMarv Martin has met Torley Linden AND knows how to contact Torley Linden
c) my avatar has not met Torley Wong, but can contact Torley Wong via Torley Linden
if that makes any sense
putting that twisted logic aside for a moment, it seems that "avatar" can be used to define a person as being a virtual person, the lack of "avatar" implies that the person is a natural person, and that "avatar me" is used from a natural person to a virtual person OR a virtual person to a natural person to say "this is an avatar of me"
which lets it cover things like virtual persons and alter-egos
unless you want to specify "natural" to explictially define a person as being a natural person isntead of a virtual person
interesting. the reason I brought up the symbiot example is that perhaps avatar can be generalized.
why must avatars be virtual?
or rather, *only* virtual?
isn't this the alias thing?
and then, another term may be appropriate
not quite
the avatar/host are different entities
Marilyn Manson is an alias of Brian Warner
which are "temporarily inhabited" by the "natural person" or "symbiot"
not an avatar
another example: John Cusack's character in "Being John Malkovich" is a "natural person" to the "avatar" of John Malkovich
at least temporarily
is there not a distinction between posessesd by someone and being an avatar ?
if you possess someone, are they not a conduit for yourself, as opposed to an avatar of yourself ?
an avatar tends to be the representation of a singular or collective entity
I'm pretty sure these are all the same relationship (human->SLavatar, Trill-symbiot->Trill-humanoid, Gould->human, CraigSchwartz->JohnMalkovich)
hmm
An avatar tends to have a fixed controller, a host does not
hosts are not necessarily merely conduits for their symbiots (though they are in the Gould case)
in the Trill case it is a unified identity
fixed controller? not in the one example I have seen IRL at the Supernova Conference 2005 party
where multiple party goers tried out the same avatar
and hosts tend to have a fixed controller as well
in both the Trill and Gould case, the symbiot tends to outlast the host
in those cases, the host is generally killed off or otherwise rendered uninhabitable
in the case of avatars, the natural person can generally jump back and forth between accounts
only losing control if they get banned
or otherwise deleted
goulds have jumped back and forth between multiple hosts
a Goa'uld switches hosts out of neccesity
a person switches avatars out of choice
does not seem like a big enough difference to warrant a separate relationship
the point is one of controller and controlled.
master and puppet
are you suggestining "puppet" as an alternative to "avatar" ?
i'm suggesting the "puppet" example is the same as the SL "avatar" example
just much older
a person can control different puppets
sometimes multiple at the same time, depending on dexterity
an avatar seems to be just a particular type of puppet
ah
another example: pilot->mech
so how about Beck's puppets that copy him but are operated by others?
Beck pays the puppeteers to do what they're told ?
there are SL avatars that resemble well known figures but are operated by others
Jimbo Wales for one :-P
KevinMarks, the analogy still works
Avatars created for promotional events are often controlled by other people, yes
so is there a distinction between puppet and avatar ?
I don't think there is
I think they are the same
a puppet being something you control directly, an avatar being something you control indirectly ?
how is it indirect?
or direct?
in either case
there are strings or packets
sitting at the keboard yourself and having someone else sit at the keyboard for you
For example:
When Duran Duran get around to doing their performance in SL
controlling the puppet strings yourself, and having someone else hold the puppet strings for you
same thing
I don't think they're going to be doing their "thing" and controlling their avatars at the same time
have people fed motion-capture into SL?
yes, I believe people from the Electric Sheep Company have played with a fudged form of motion-capture
SL itself doesn't natively support live motion capture
Once the rag-doll physics stuff gets in there, the fudging should be much smoother :-D
There have been RL sports events that were mirrored with avatars and prims in Second Life though
sreynen is Scott Reynen, who makes things at makedatamakesense.com
so "puppet", "puppet me", "puppet me child" etc make more historical sense than "avatar" etc
would you use "puppeteer" to indicate the controller of a "puppet" ?
that does seem to make sense
hmm
can puppets have puppets ?
in Being John Malkovich they did
or rather he did
For example, if David Bowie, as Ziggy Stardust, went into a virtual world, would the avatar be a puppet of Ziggy Stardust, or David Bowie ?
Ziggy Stardust is an alias not a puppet
ah, good point :-D
CraigSchwartz->JohnMalkovich->puppets
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