Archive for the year 2008
Lively Lesbian Subtext to Google’s 3D Chatrooms?
Google’s Lively “Heather” & “Vanessa” Avatars Can’t Dance With BoysFighting breaks out in Jen’s Coffee House by Pixeleen Mistral, International Affairs desk I have enjoyed my time in Lively so far, but there are parts of the experience I find troubling – I simply cannot dance with irishJohn36. I met irishJohn36 in Jen’s Coffee House, [...]
Full StorySecond Life Herald Opens Lively Office
by Idoru Wellamn, staff writer Pixeleen Mistral today announced that the Second Life Herald is expanding it’s “always fairly unbalanced” coverage of the most vital virtual worlds’ news, by opening a branch office in Lively – internet advertising behemoth Google’s first step toward monetizing the immersive social experience. Ms. Mistral relaxes in a goth chair [...]
Full StorySecond Life Image Tarnished by Users?
RiversRunRed CEO warns against allowing residents to create 3D content by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk MIT Technology Review writer Brian White advises the metaverse that users may make “shoddy and even offensive content” if allowed to create in 3D worlds — sentiments echoed by the CEO of RiversRunRed Justin Bovington who praised internet advertising [...]
Full StoryAOL Tightens Belt, Massively Chokes Off SL News?
“Massively Staff” blogs for free at AOL properties after gaming writers are told to stop posting by Idoru Wellman, staff writer Techcrunch reports that AOL has savagely cut their blogging empire’s staff, chopping personel budgets up to 25% and telling writers to take a few weeks off while they wait and see if they have [...]
Full StoryThe Pearl:Victorian Brothel/Promiscuous Mermaids
Inventory server mishap creates inseparable siamese-twin stories Something went horribly wrong when I put the prims holding the notecards for these two stories on Pixeleen’s piano at the Herald offices in Jessie sim – I crashed and when I relogged the prims holding the stories were fused – along with the stories! My interview at [...]
Full StorySL Herald – the literary backbone of virtual worlds?
Mario Gerosa Interviews Urizenus Sklar on the New New JournalismDoes this explain all the damn poems? by Idoru Wellman, Dept. of Literary Salons and Euro-Trash Intellectuals Mario Gerosa (Frank Koolhaus in SL) wears many hats (some virtual). He is real life editor of Architectural Digest Italia He has also made headlines here and elsewhere with [...]
Full StoryNate Ninetails — Post 6 Guy
[Few guys in Second Life are as easy-going, reliable and balanced as Nate. Having him on your friends list means there's always someone to cheer you up, to join you on an excessive shopping tour or to kick your butt in combat. He is talented in many ways and his picture-editing skills make every cheap [...]
Full StorySlouching Toward Bethlehem: The Anti-Poet
Spam filter fails — critic battles emo poetry outbreak by Sigmund Leominster, new media critic Following the tragic failure of my spam filter to do its job, I recently received an unsolicited email containing a piece of poetry from what was described as someone with “a poet’s heart and pen.” Here’s a clip from the [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Google Whacks LL’s Ad Options
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk unemployed bots forced to seek Lively jobs as chat session miners and ad customizers? The Herald newsroom was quiet – staff writer Idoru Wellman had headed out muttering something about “Ginger & Jack, and four or five Feminax”. After the door closed, I stopped sorting through pictures of the [...]
Full Story[Resolved] Land Store taken offline repeatedly
Resolved 10:43 a.m. PDT Our Land Store is open! ZOMG! Thank you again for your patience while we got hammered – that is how we keep SL going!! Update 10:18 a.m. PDT Our InterWebs Developers are taking great care to make sure the Land Store is 100%. Someone told them about testing last night over [...]
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