Swords Crossed

New developments for Swords Crossed (Weekend Open Thread)

A few things you should know: (1) we are looking into making SC more user-friendly; (2) we're working to implement a strategy to attract more traffic; (3) we are pleased to announce a new liberal front page poster. Details below the fold.

SC Analysis: In-depth discussion of big-picture topics

Welcome to SC Analysis, a section of the site devoted to in-depth discussion of big-picture topics. There is a "table of contents" below with recent posts you may find of interest. Further down we highlight a few pieces with the introduction and a link to the complete essay. Finally, at the bottom of the page all posts are listed by category. Comments are encouraged at the original post. Suggestions for what to include are welcome; just put a comment in an open thread or the original piece.

SC Shameless Predictions Revisited

(promoted by Ender) OK, take a breath Swords Crossed. Back in August of last year, we put up a set of ten questions that we'd revisit after the first major primaries ended. With Florida pending for the Republicans and the Democrats poised for a Super Tuesday Blitz, the results look to be fairly surprising. So how'd we do? Let's see how far we've come...

Here are the questions, with some of the selected answers that were dead on, way off, and even the absurd :-) I've only selected a few; you guys can click through to the original if you want...

Swords Crossed and Politics in Second Life

I have been traveling through Second Life checking out all the political sites and events, accumulating a lot of photos that I have yet to sort and categorize. But last night's meeting was well attended and FUN (after an hour plus of chat on the patio, we moved to the dancefloor and chatted some more), so I figured I'd just throw what I have ready so far into a slide show and post it. Lots more to come.

This slideshow version will stop if you run your cursor over it.

SC User Presences

A recent comment about my Wikipedia userpage led me to the idea of asking everyone where else they have online presences. I know Second Life is somewhat popular in these parts. At what other websites do you have an account?

Obviously, if you aren't comfortable divulging anything, please don't. Google and a few bits of info can get the home addresses of just about everyone.

SC Chatroom

This is the SC Chatroom. When you get to this page, your browser might freeze for 5-20 seconds loading the chatroom. Once that is loaded click on the little green world button to connect (above the B for bold, and the smiley icons). If you have any problems you can leave the comments below. Leaving the comments here or refreshing the page will disconnect you from chat so you would have to reconnect.
It is possible that the chat will just say loading and never open. Try refreshing the page a few times or a different browser. We've been able to get it working in Firefox and IE7.

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