Archive for February, 2006

The Federation of Hamlet Linden

Hamlet Linden wraps up his tenure tomorrow as Linden Lab’s in-house blogger on all things Second Life, and has already found a new home. As Hamlet announced today, he’ll be joining Federated Media Publishing Inc., home network of such touchstone blogs as BoingBoing and Metafilter, where he’ll presumably keep on doing what he’s been doing [...]

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SecondLife Reaches 150,000 Accounts

Late Sunday, SecondLife finally reached the mark of having 150,000 residents, no, paying accounts, wait, no, active accounts, hmmm, accounts – 50,000 residents and their 100,000 alts would perhaps be closer to the actual count.  The number, as shown on the SecondLife website, is updated daily, and jumped from 149,505 to 150,107 at its update [...]

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Interview: The Playboy of the Online World

by Jeannedellalune Prudhomme, Special to the SL Herald “MrC” (right) tells all. There’s more to cybersex than poseballs, according to one of SL’s more accomplished Don Juans. The right word at the right moment will go much further to guarantee a satisfied partner than relying on a TS3 or Resolution sexball to do the job, [...]

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Animate Yourself

Phillip Torrone, the Herald’s favorite nutjob, sends news that should have Second Life avatars dancing in the streets — no matter what dance step they prefer. As Torrone reports on the Make Magazine blog, there’s now a free avatar animation application, known as Avimator, that will allow anyone to create their own custom animations without [...]

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SecondCast, Round Two

The SecondCast crew gathered again a few nights ago to talk past each other, courtesy of the talented Johnny Ming. I call him talented because he manages to edit down our unabbreviated gumflapping into something at least halfway intelligible each time we show up. In Round Two, Aimee, Cristiano, Lordfly, Johnny and myself are joined [...]

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The Train Wreck of Virtual Journalism

Tony Walsh over at Clickable Culture reports that two journalism professors at the University of Minnesota have built a version of Neverwinter Nights, the designed-to-be-moddable role-playing game, in which players take on the roles of journalists in modern-day America, assigned to cover a train derailment and hazardous materials spill. The game is being used in [...]

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Post Six Grrrl(s) Revisited: Queenie Extraordinaire and Daphne Molinari

For this week’s Post Six Grrrl feature, I’m very pleased to present to you a Post Six Grrrls Revisited feature, focusing on Queenie Extraordinare and Daphne Molinari!  Both Queenie and Daphne were Post Six Grrrls back when Marilyn Murphy was doing the feature for the Herald (click on their names to see how they used [...]

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Revisiting Stagecoach Island

paulie Femto created a forum thread yesterday discussing Wells Fargo’s Stagecoach Island project that began using a version of the SecondLife viewer, and has since migrated to ActiveWorlds.  As a former ActiveWorlds user myself (I played during the beta period in mid-to-late 1996 and again from 2000 til 2005-ish), the move interested and shocked me [...]

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Newsflash: Group Limit Increase Forthcoming

The Herald has been informed by one of our many anonymous sources that Robin Linden let it slip earlier this week at a meeting of SecondLife residents that in the next update, the group limit would increase.  The update, planned for this upcoming Wednesday, has had a "changes" list posted, but it didn’t include this [...]

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There She Goes

It happens to the best of us: the lure of a steady paycheck overcomes the strong desire to sit at a desk in our apartments all day staring into a computer screen (not surprisingly). So it is that Terra Nova‘s Betsy Book has been snapped up by the virtual world of There.com, which bills itself [...]

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