Archive for October, 2006
Saluting the Herald Paparazzi: Top Herald Photos of Past 3 Years
Philip Linden on hearing the news that Uri is back writing for the Herald. As the third birthday party of the Second Life Herald approaches, we thought a stroll down memory lane was in order. And who could provide a nicer stroll than the Herald Paparazzi? In this post, Uri’s choices for the top 10 [...]
Full StoryFlying Elbows in the Avatar Scrum
Help Island – You can’t enter this region because the server is full by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Lavant Taggart is hot to help newbies Second Life resident and Mentor Mikel Maitland dryly observed thursday, “The flood gates are opening” as we IMed each other while standing at the edge of a brutal avatar [...]
Full StorySL on the road to YosemiteLand?
First Person: Second Life by Fiend Ludwig The metaverse meets Yosemite How do residents describe Second Life to friends and family? I recently asked a random cross-section of SL citizens. Chaylon Voss said, “I tell them it’s something I enjoy and there are lots of opportunities here too, to make money, etc., if you seek [...]
Full StorySlashdot Joins Backlash Against Linden Kool-Aid
While the Mainstream Meadia (MSM) continues to uncritically slurp down the Linden Kool-Aid, people with some experience in online games and virtual communities continue to say Whoa Nellie! We’ve reported the reservations by Zero Grace and Matt Mihaley, but there is also a tough tough comment thread over on Terra Nova in which luminaries like [...]
Full StoryGM Joins Corporate Invasion of SL: Residents Wake up and Begin to Smell the Coffee
Concerned Citizens Debate Chief Pontiac’s Invasion of SL. The Pontiac Division of failing Michigan-based auto-maker, General Motors Corporation, has announced that it will soon join the recent corporate invation of Second Life, offer free land (rumored to be as many as 5 simulators) to support the development of “car culture” in Second Life. According to [...]
Full StoryIs SL More Like Paris Hilton or Tyra Banks?
While the mainstream media (hereafter MSM) continues its uncritical jeans-creaming over Second Life, bloggers who are actually familiar with virtual spaces are less easily aroused. In the latest blogger broadside, The Forge , massively unimpressed by the Ben Folds nonevent, calls Second Life the “Paris Hilton of virtual wolds. Famous for being famous and little [...]
Full StoryLaura Erlanger – Post 6 Grrrl
[Editor’s note: Recently, I had the good fortune to be introduced to Marilyn Murphy - one of Second Life’s true artists and pioneers in avatar erotica. After some tense negotiations - well actually, I just begged - the Herald is delighted to resume our relationship with Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine. Even more exciting is [...]
Full StoryLL Luvs LEWIS Spinmeisters
Morgan “LEWIS” McLintic to cover RL with spinning ad-cubes? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Morgan McLintic is loved Feeling the need for perhaps just a wee bit more soft and fluffy press coverage, Linden Lab recently sent some love to Morgan McLintic of the LEWIS public relations firm – Mr. McLintic is leading a [...]
Full StoryThree Years of the Herald! Come Celebrate, October 26.
You love it, you hate it, you wrap your pixelated fish in it, but there’s just no avoiding the Second Life Herald. Though things looked rocky a while back, the Herald has soldiered on, revivified by the bloodhound instincts of new Herald managing editor Pixeleen Mistral, and recently re-joined by Herald founder Urizenus Sklar. Now [...]
Full StoryWashed up Emo Musician Drops F-Bomb on Fans in SL Visit
video by Theage.com paparrazo, Stephen Hutcheon Ben Folds, a washed up solo musician straddling the that rich musical territory somewhere between emo and John Denver, had a “virtual launch party” at Sony BMG’s Media Island, a beach head in the corporate invasion of Second Life. As the above video by Stephen Hutcheon shows, virtual release [...]
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