Archive for October, 2006

Playing in Traffic

By Prokofy Neva Argggh! Walker Spaight warned us we’d all have to sharpen our keyboards! I was just putting my notes together, hoofing it around the world to follow up on a story idea I had, checking on the actual traffic numbers of all these hyperventilating Big Brands with the giant builds and MSM-saturated events [...]

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Stood Up

By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Little children like these went to sleep hungry last night in Darfur. Forced to cut rations due to a shortfall of donations from an indifferent world, distraught relief workers had to turn them away. It wasn’t for lack of awareness by millions of people who took part in what [...]

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Herald Announces First Virtual Birthday Party in Second Life. Ever!!!

Waiting at the Herald Party in Hyperborea: CLICK HERE FOR A SLURL TO TAKE YOU TO THE EVENT! Yes, it’s true, the 3rd Birthday Party of the Second Life Herald will be the first virtual birthday party ever held in second life. We know this, because we googled “First birthday party in second life” and [...]

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The Ghost at the Banquet Speaks

[In March, Doc Nielsen - a two year veteran of SL - liquidated her assets and left the metaverse. For a perspective on how our world has evolved, I asked Doc to share her impressions after a 6 month hiatus. - pixeleen] by Doc Nielsen Back in March 2006 I finally decided I’d had enough [...]

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A Gallery of Lies!

The bullshit and hyperventilation about recent developments in Second Life has now officially turned into a theater of the absurd. Rohit Bhargava, a VP for Interactive Marketing with Public Relations giant Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, has a recent post on digitalmedia wire entitled “A Gallery of Virtual ‘Firsts’ from Second Life.” Readers of the Herald [...]

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So you are pondering a career as a Linden currency speculator?

Tell me you haven’t fantasized a career as a currency speculator specializing in Linden dollars. Heck, I *know* someone who tried to do it by manipulating the market with those down home SL gangsta tactics. Is it feasible? Enter Forex Forays: Ideas and Insights from the World of Currency Trading, a blog that specializes in [...]

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Fall Boat Show

a MSM-style analysis-free, lightly edited press release – enjoy! scary monsters (and super creeps) like Flying Tako sailboats The Second Life Sailing Federation’s web site reports that a fall boat show is running until October 31st at the Sanchon Sailing Center. Quoting from the site, “the boat show lives on as a pure exhibition of [...]

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Time Lapse

By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Flak-Catching Time and date stamp on the press release I received from Hank Hoodoo in Counting Sheep, the market messaging group within SL run by the Electric Sheep Company: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:14:08 -0700 (PDT)We’re told to show up between 4 and 8 SLT on Thursday and Friday, October [...]

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Telegraph Interview with Ludlow Continues…

Yesterday, Telegraph reporter Ian Douglass posted an interview with Peter Ludlow that covered issues like virtual crime and dispute resolution. In part two, published today, Ian leads the discussion into the topic of personal identity online, and in particular the possibility that self-identity involves the collaborative construction of narratives about ourselves. Both online and off. [...]

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Sony Media Monorail Derailed!

Plywood pileup – lone devolutionist claims responsibility by Txema Nuvolari ALEXANDER releases Devo tune on Sony – monorail cars jam On the night of Sunday October 22th 2006, Monorail transportation on Sony´s Media Island was artistically sabotaged by an avatar who´s identity will be presented here as “Alexander”. By building up huge wooden boxes, Alexander [...]

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