Archive for the year 2007
“Information Wants to Be Free”
iDubrovnik and ibackofCoryLinden’sneck. By Prokofy Neva, Wender of the Way Through the Tekkie-Wiki Woo So I drop in on the iCommons Dubrovnik summit — virtual version — on the Annenberg Island (still more tomorrow), and Judy Collins is drooning on the sound track. Granola crunches under my feet and what’s that — patchouli scent on [...]
Full StoryFriend WaldOh Kidnapped!!!
Desperate residents scramble to find ransom money and “black liquorice jelly beans” by Yo Brewster, concerned citizen Last Saturday, Friends Fighting Cancer organized a Relay For Life Date Auction which was an amazing success (L$217,316). Unfortunately this amazing event was overshadowed by a dramatic event. At the end of the RFL Date Auction, it was [...]
Full StoryThe Business Case for Second Life
A new use for SL, and wow is it cheesy by Curious Rousselot, metaverse technology reporter We all know that the government and corporate worlds are jumping into Second Life but what are they doing with here? Sure they buy up corporate island and put up builds. Usually they have an event once in a [...]
Full StorySpeed-Paving the Metaverse
Rez a residential layout in six seconds – less than 1000 prims span the entire island sim by Tenshi Vielle, metaverse technology reporter Billie Scaggs has been in seclusion for the past two weeks while online, developing his mega-rez system that will, eventually, simplify the problems landowners experience in quickly dividing and building out suburban-style [...]
Full StoryReporters Lag Lounge, Ponder Playboy Philosophy
SL sex palaces seem safe for now by Jessica Holyoke On June 12, the Playboy island opened on Second Life. When the Herald first reported Playboy’s anticipated move to SL, the majority of responses asked what possible place the indigenous SL Sex Palaces would have with actual professionals coming in. I was one of the [...]
Full StoryLEVELING UP LINDENZ
By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist More missing Lindens : ( Mournfully, I moped around Sutherland, steeling myself for that lonely, chilly vigil out on the Sea of Omidyar once again. Looking to the darkening synthetic skies and the overlarge angry sun, I felt my heart sink. I needed some other strategy. Uri had whispered, “Don’t think [...]
Full StoryThe Justice League of Second Life
Bad boyz ignore the Lindens – but stand down for Batman by peppermint fizz A little over a year ago, a couple of fans of superheroes started a group as a comic book interest group. In the time since, the group has developed into an actual security force in Second Life. The thing that makes [...]
Full StoryDolcett Play: Broadly offensive? Naw, it’s what’s for dinner.
Can’t Find a Casino? Let’s Barbeque Some Long Pig Instead There is no better way to illustrate the supreme idiocy of the new Linden content policing policy than the fact that while the word ‘casino’ is now banned from property descriptions (reportedly you can’t even say you are NOT a casino), Dolcett play – i.e. [...]
Full StoryDuranske Blasts New Linden Policy on the “Broadly Offensive”
Just wondering: Who on gopod’s green pixilated earth is in charge of Linden Lab’s legal policy and why do they seem to be on a mission to destroy the company? First, there was the Bragg vs. Linden Lab fiasco, which anyone who has been paying attention would have seen as an obvious legal trap for [...]
Full StoryiCommons Summit Comes to Second Life June 14-17
A public service announcement iCommons Summit 2007 in Second Life at USC Annenberg Public Diplomacy Island14-17 June 2007 SUMMARY: The goal of the iCommons Summit in Second Life is to reach more people via virtual reality to promote awareness and use of the latest principles and methodologies for broader sharing of intellectual property. GETTING THERE: [...]
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