Archive for January, 2006
The Guardian Covers Virtual Journalists Covering Second Life
I meant to blog this much earlier, but..what can I say… I’m irresponsible. Not so the most rightous Aleks Krotoski, who gives her readers in the UK publication The Guardian a peak into the stories that percolate in those august virtual media outlets, The Second Life Herald and Clickable Culture. In her recent piece, Aleks [...]
Full StoryThis is oh so wrong: the sexy machinima of Warcraft!
I thought machinima had probed the limits of my psyche with the Ed Wood film festival in Second Life. But no, now we have *this*… this… well it’s best if you just look.
Full StoryYour Imagination, but now it’s Activeworld’s: Stagecoach Island Failure has Content Contributors Crying Fowl
Tony Walsh (aka Zero Grace) has a superb article on the failure of the Stage Coach Island Project, that a group of Second Life residents undertook for Well’s Fargo Corp. Not only has Wells Fargo moved the project out of Second Life and into Activeworlds, but it has taken a lot of SL resident work [...]
Full StoryMore Lessig!
As Hammie Linden is reporting, Lawrence Lessig, the Official Hero of the Second Life Herald ™ will be visiting Second Life Next Wed. at 5:30 PM Linden time. Author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace and Free Culture, he has long stressed the idea that we are in danger of swapping out of a [...]
Full StoryPlay Money No More: Non-Virtual Goods to Sell for Linden Bux
Cutting out the middleman, SLBoutique founder FlipperPA Peregrine announced at Saturday’s Democracy Island event that his virtual commerce site would soon begin accepting Linden dollars in exchange for tangible real-world goods. Read more at the Second Life Future Salon blog where we heard the news. Then call your accountant.
Full StoryNews of the World News: Castronova Takes Virtual Commerce to the National Airwaves
Virtual Economist Edward Castronova — author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games as well as many engaging Terra Nova blog posts — hits the national airwaves this evening during a segment about virtual commerce to air on ABC World News Tonight. Check your local listings for time and channel, but don’t [...]
Full StoryNewsflash: Entire Second Life Population Faces Jail Time!!
by Walker Spaight In a development with shocking ramifications for the virtual world, Second Life’s entire population of 100,000 or more residents found itself facing imminent jail time — and not the cornfield kind — after U.S. President George Bush signed a new law last week that forbids using the Internet to "annoy, abuse, threaten [...]
Full StoryUri’s Predictions for 2006
You’ve been waiting all year for these. Ready? Let’s go! 1) A Linden will be relegated to the cornfield for office hijinks. 2) After several meetings with the FBI, agents will offer Philip a job as an undercover agent in a special task force dedicated to infiltrating metro-sexual crime rings. 3) TrannyPet Barmy will be [...]
Full StoryPolice Blotter
Don’t look now, but we are running the RSS feed of the Linden Police Blotter so you can keep daily tabs on all the sordid badness in SL (scroll down — it’s in the left column). "Teen accessing main grid – Suspended 14 Days"? WTF, must be turning 18 in two weeks! Par-Tay!
Full StoryA Chat in the Desert
Cooperative gameplay, Egyptian-style Andrew Tepper, pharaoh of Egypt (or at least of the massively multiplayer online world of A Tale in the Desert) has something say, and he wants you to listen. He also wants you to get in his game, and is re-opening free trial accounts to anyone who’s interested, even if you’ve already [...]
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