Archive for the year 2005
Post Six Grrrl: montserrat Snakeankle
The Herald is happy to present to you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, montserrat Snakeankle! Monsterrat is not only a very beautiful woman, but she is also a writer for the Herald who arrived here in February and enjoys writing and admiring things that other people do, without actually doing them herself. We at the [...]
Full StoryCommodify Me! Chapter 2
Thanks again to Clickable Culture for reporting on this little gem — A breakdown of the way Massive Incorporated‘s in-game advertising works. Seems that not only are the ads placed in the game, but the marketers collect information about the amount of time the ad is viewed by individual players, the size at which they [...]
Full StorySimcast Project is Dead
The Simcast project is now officially defunct, yet another failed attempt at developing a player vs. player combat game within second life. The Herald is working on a full post mortem on the project (Herald Publisher Urizenus Sklar was involved in the project), but in brief it failed for a combination of reasons, including security [...]
Full StoryCommodify me! After saying no to academics and journalists, Lindens say Yes! to “cool hunters”
The Linden Brain Trust: Cory, Philip, and Robin Thanks again to Zero Grace for culling this from the GLS Conference video feeds. After the Lindens raised a stink about academics and journalists hanging out on second life, and after insisting that the usual academic human subjects committes and safeguards were not enough and that the [...]
Full StoryCory Disavows FIC, then throws it $17K in Business
The ever vigilant Zero Grace of the Clickable Culture flog blog is reporting the strange confluence of two proclamations from Cory Linden. The first one is Cory’s claim at the GLS conference that there is no inner core of users with important access to the Lindens, and Cory’s almost simultaneous announcement that a bank has [...]
Full StoryA Window on the Teen Grid
Teens pour into SL’s new “Teen Grid” As reported by Hammie Linden in New World Notes, the Second Life Teen Grid has its first blog, called Second Age, under he stewardship of Aesop Thatch, who is a fine writer btw. Early stories cover the clubs, a recent influx of noobs, and of course the Young [...]
Full StorySkin Review: Hybrid by Santana Lumiere
by Chipsen Queso Late last year, a former writer for the Herald interviewed five of SecondLife’s top skin creators in order to get their view of things. As a bit of a follow-up, we at the Herald’s fashion department (being the skin-o-holics that we are) have decided to do a weekly skin review, beginning with [...]
Full StoryEquities Exchange Opens for Business in Second Life
First IPO is successful. Today the Cyberland Equities Exchange opened for business, with an initial public offering of Cyberland — an in game land investment company. It is unclear at this point whether additional SL corporations will be allowed to join the exchange (the FAQ says no, but the discussion with Shaun Altman on the [...]
Full StoryThe Confessions of Ario Gomez: mobster, prankster, or racist fucktard?
by Gina Fatale Ario Gomez formerly the infamous John Gotti from TSO (think back to SSG wars), wants to set the record straight on why he was kicked from his family in SecondLife, The Blackhand Mafia. Ario is currently serving a 13 day ban from SecondLife for what he claims was a prank but Lindens [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl: Elphesius Madison
The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Elphesius Madison! Elphesius is a very busy person who in her spare time enjoys exploring for new gorgeous buildings in SecondLife and admiring art created by many of her talented friends. We at the Herald would like to take a moment to thank [...]
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