Archive for the year 2006
Post Six Grrrl Rhapsody Rutherford
I’m pleased to introduce to you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Rhapsody Rutherford! Rhapsody is a long-time SecondLife’er who owns two clothing stores and is always on a search for new knowledge. Thanks again to Daphne Molinari, owner of Daphne’s Delights and the texture artist of Forever Yours, for these absolutely gorgeous photographs!
Full StoryBlizzard: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But Go Ahead and Call People “Fag” All You Like.
In Newsweekly ("New England’s Largest GLBT Newsletter") is running a story on an appalling new "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy on the part of Blizzard Entertainment where gay- and lesbian-friendly guilds are concerned (linked from BoingBoing the other day). Apparently, a member of a World of Warcraft guild advertising itself on the Blizzard forums as [...]
Full Storytest post for Herald TV
This is a test post for what in the fullness of time will evolve into the Herald TV branch of the Herald media empire. Posted here is actually a story from TechTV on the ESRB ratings of online games, featuring former Herald staffer Jessica and cranky professor L. VE_EmbedPlayer(“gid325/cid1093″, “TypePad/274032_1138387069″);
Full StoryThe Demi-Pharaoh Speaks!
A Tale in the Desert is one of those games that chooses to tread the dangerous boards of player-run government, at least to a limited extent. The game’s demi-pharaohs, of which there have been some 20 over the last three years, each have the power to exile up to seven of their countrymen, should they [...]
Full StoryOh Joy, SL Taps Users to be Forum Mods — and we know how well THAT works.
The last time we saw users as forum mods. (Just a stroll down memory lane…). Yes, it’s true folks, dipping again into that inexhaustable well of users that will fluff for peanuts, the Lindens have enlisted a group of SL residents to moderate the SL Forums — or so reports Jeska Linen. Actually we like [...]
Full StoryWired News Covers Virtual Lecture Circuit
Joanna Glasner has an interesting article in Wired News on the topic of the recent spate of virtual lectures in Second Life by cyberlebrities such as Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig and others. Doctorow thought the format helped create a bond between author and audience, but the ever cranky professor Ludlow is not so sanquine: “It [...]
Full StoryMore Lessig Less Linden Please!
Gumby and his 300 pound Samoan Attorney enjoy their virtual autographed copies of Free Culture. by Paul Lineker, Iggy Sleeper, and Dirk Diggler This past Wednesday, Lawrence Lessig’s visited Second Life and was met by enthusiastic fans eager to hear his words regarding the cyberspace-related problems that have surfaced within recent years. By the time [...]
Full StoryFlipper on MTV?
Our friend Stephen Totilo of MTV.com has a story on SL resident FlipperPM Peregrine’s recent attempts to sell real world stuff for Linden dollars at his SLBoutique. It even looks like he will be selling copies of Only a Game for Lindens as well. We can see how the book might sell, but the rest [...]
Full StoryAnimal Auctioning
Technical issues kept me from posting this sooner, but it wouldn’t be the Herald without a bulletin on the auction market that’s sprung up for stuff found in the Nintendo DS massively wifi-player game Animal Crossing. Thanks to a Faithful Reader for alerting us to NookBay.com where all things Animal Crossing can be bought and [...]
Full StoryC|Net Covers Lessig Visit
Daniel Terdiman has a story on C|Net covering the visit to Second Life of Stanford Law Professor and author of Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig. Its a great story except for the end when he sites that cranky old professor Ludlow, who has nothing good to say about anything it seems. Hamlet Linden also has been [...]
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