Archive for the year 2007
LA Times Joins the SL Hater Parade
The Hate Just Keeps on Comin’! It seems like just last month (well, ok, it was last month) that Forbes did its 180 and started hating on Second Life. Now the LA Times joins the hate parade with a story of its own. Herald Summary ™: Businesses came in, saw, and decided it was a [...]
Full Story‘Broadly Offensive’ Raid in Blister; Lindens Review Teen Anime Paintings
Porn art cabana in Blister. By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Tipped off by some newbie helpers who staff a monitoring network with Linden support, Linden staff may have seized or “force-copied” anime paintings said to contain what was deemed illegal child anime pornography from a cabana tonight in the working-class water sim of Blister — [...]
Full StoryLondon Spengler – Post 6 Grrrl
[London Spengler is this week's Post 6 Grrrl - an amazing vision from Europe - - and as always the amazing photographs are courtesy of my friend Marilyn Murphy. Marilyn is the visionary, business woman, and photographer behind Players, SL's in-world erotica magazine. Enjoy! - the Editrix] Hello. The first I want to say is [...]
Full StoryBoxed In: A Nation of Landlords
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual EstateThe other night I attended an off-the-record meeting of inworld business people who, for some reason I couldn’t fathom decided to use the new outworld Crowne Plaza meeting space (claiming to be the first such private meeting facility in SL!) under the theory that this was “safer” or “more [...]
Full StoryIs Second Life’s Economy Tanking?
Linden Lab’s numbers suggest we are in for a really bad recession. Like 3rd world bad. by Curious Rousselot, Voodoo Economist Linden Lab released the updated economic statistics for Second Life and it is time again for some fairly unbalanced analysis and speculation. Our friend Eric Reuters has provided a short summary also. Now, for [...]
Full StoryHere Comes Second Earth! Or not.
WTF? 120 Servers (480 new sims) per Week? MIT’s Technology Review has a (registration required) disappointingly fanboyish, hyperventilating story about Second Life and the possibility of linking up worlds like Second Life with Google Earth. Oddly, while the article talks about how swell and kewl this would be (and includes interviews with developers who live [...]
Full StoryItaly’s “Clean Hands” Prosecutor to Visit Second Life
I almost never report on hypervents, but this one is special. Imagine this: There I was snorkeling off the coast of southern Italy, near Maratea . I came back to the beach and sent the cabana boy for a Campari Soda and a copy of the Corriere dela Sera when the mojo wire on my [...]
Full StoryOp-ED: Criminal Gangs Can’t Ask for No “Guilt by Association”
By Prokofy Neva/Op-Ed In Second Life, you can make a group with only 27 cents and one other person. Don’t like the group you’re in, because it’s taken over by a tyrant or filling up with griefers you don’t want to be associated with? Make a new one — and the tools enable you to [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Should We All Spy On Each Other?
Guilt by association creates a world of spies by Jessica Holyoke Reading the articles about the Woodbury situation and the actions and the reactions, makes me look around the real world and second life, sit back and ponder. I do support the underdog, the person who doesn’t have the ability to fight back. In this [...]
Full StoryIntlibber: “I am sure Tizzers is in on it and works for the prof”
By Prokofy Neva The story of Woodbury University — “Griefer U” — is now in the real-life Chronicle of Higher Education. You need a subscription to read the article (the link is just to the blog) — it’s one of those old-media proprietary establishments that needs a paid pass or sub, because the journalists and [...]
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