The Alphaville Herald

Walking to the Metaverse

Photo by Brian. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Planets, Worlds, Universes, Multiverses, and A Metaverse Just One Stop Away When Jerry Paffendorf, futurist of the Electric Sheep, put out the word about a Metaverse Meet-Up and said it was in Brooklyn, I checked my immunization records, got out my passport, and put on some extra [...]

Plyqood #70: Prim’s Lament

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Eavesdropping in SL – The Unbearable Weight of Erroneous Assumptions

by Fiend Ludwig According to Nick Yee, of Stanford University, and his colleagues, Second Life, and by extension other virtual environments, is an ideal place to test paradigms of real-life human social interaction. In the paper The Unbearable Likeness of Being Digital: The Persistence of Nonverbal Social Norms in Online Virtual Environments, Yee asserts that: [...]

Rogue Squid Takes Over LL Server

Reliable metaverse service? – we’ve heard of it by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The special care, high quality and reliability that has made metaverse service provider Linden Lab famous was in evidence today on both their resident web site and the login page in the second life client. Herald staff were bemused as the [...]

Is Ginko’s Alleged Ponzi Game About to Implode? Will Linden Lab be Held Liable?

The Journal of the Business Law Society at the University of Illinois College of Law is running a well documented article on Second Life’s Ginko corporation, which claims to have the equivalent of $475,000 US invested in it but which some have called a ponzi scheme, Meanwhile, Philip Linden has comparedGinko to the Grameen Bank [...]

Gina Vansant – Post 6 Grrrl

[Editrix’s note: Gina Vansant lays down the law this week. As always, this week’s Post 6 Grrrl is courtesy of Marilyn Murphy - the photographer/visionary behind Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine. Based on the evidence presented here, I’m sure there are plenty of residents who would like to be in a privileged relationship with the [...]

The 5 Minute Virtual Relationship

Get A Lifeby Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. (Name Withheld): hi, your avatar is pretty cute(Name Withheld): what are u doing for live(Name Withheld): livingHeartun Breaker: I am a high school teacher. You?(Name Withheld): i deall with cloth i inport themHeartun Breaker: That sounds very cool. Business is fascinating. (VERY LONG PAUSE) Heartun Breaker: Hey, [...]

Tableau – Brave Survivors of Volcano’s Wrath Rebuild

[Readers saddened by reports of a horrific natural disaster in Tableau will be happy to read this tale of the triumph of the human spirit - the plucky survivors of a virgin-starved volcanic eruption are rebuilding a new life - a Mexican themed life - in hopes of moving beyond their subsistence level prim farming. [...]

Hell is Other People: The LA Times Gets to the Bottom of SL’s Growing Pains

If you are coming from the Feb. 22 LA Times article… I dunno…just know that we really really hate the Lakers. Or as we call them, the Hollywood Fakers. If you already read the article, then let me save you some trouble, and suggest that you use this link for sex, cybersex, and beyond. If [...]