The World According to Jennyfur

Over the Memorial Day Holiday weekend, I found some time to update our website Peregrine Salon. I found a nice efficient way to load images with use of a powerpoint to flash convertor. I’ve found that powerpoint image galleries work well for presentations and online storage. I added some images to my Virtual Fashion Design section and added some of our recent presentations on Second Life. I may go back a tidy up some of the presentations so the formatting is uniform.

In the near future, I will be working on uploading some of my traditional and digital photographs. Though, I have a sneaking suspicion that this will take some time to do as my current photo archives are comprised of digital images, print photography, slides and negatives spanning the course of the past thirteen years.

Prompted by Hamlet’s The Unwisdom of Crowds post in New World Notes I finally decided attempt to take an in-depth look at Jira. I can say that after approximately 10 minutes of slow page load times and unclear click stream paths to get anywhere that I found the site to be disappointing.

Granted, the slowness may be due to the difference between “my hasn’t been updated in years” work computer versus my desktop at home, which gets updated every 6 months. I’ll take a look at Jira again when I get home, but my overall impression is that it is clunky and could be more intuitive to users of all levels.

I would not consider myself a luddite in this field, but when it comes to websites I am a strict form over function type of person. I want to be able to go to the website and find what I am looking for in the most efficient way possible. If I can’t find what I am looking for efficiently then I will most likely not use the site again. I also manage our database at work for a variety of functions I have little or no patience for slow, clunky, inefficient, non-intuitive databases. In my past two jobs, I have spearheaded the process of moving from said clunky outdated databases to a much more efficient ones.

My overall feeling is that the clunkiness of Jira is probably keeping away many people who would contribute to the process.

The piece we filmed last week for our local ABC News was featured last night on the 11 o’clock news right after Lost. The segment was narrated by the interviewer and focused more on Flip than me. I got some face time though and navigated most of the Second Life demo for them. Here is the video link for the piece Right Now on the Net: Second Life.

Someone approached me this weekend about whether or not I allow people to re-sell my designs in Second Life. I don’t mean just a one off copy at a yardsale, but giving the person full permission copies for them to resell for profit. I do not begrudge the person for asking, but I thought it prudent to at least consider a personal policy on the matter.

*I do not have a problem with someone reselling an item that they purchased from me at a yard sale for either the same amount or less than the original purchase price. I do not condone the resale of freebies or discounted items for profit ever.

*I will not ever and I mean ever allow people to resell my design collections for their own personal profit from my work. I don’t care if they offer me 10% of the profit. Don’t even ask.

*I will not ever give out full permission items. Most of my newer designs are no transfer to prevent fraudulent behavoir. In a perfect world, I would love for items to be transferable, but until the overall permissions system is overhauled that is not going to happen.