As laughable as Tizzers attempting to sock-puppet legitimize himself by buying 51% of BnT stock, pretending it’s the real Woodbury doing it through MC Fizgig, who is operated by Tizzy these days. All fake.

Just like this article.

I’m on MP FIC Watch.

But I don’t see how this constrains what I say. Or rather, if someone *thinks* that Pix joining the evangelist program is going to constrain what I say (or what anyone says) they are probably going to be disappointed.

Anyway, I haven’t signed on to the evangelist program. Does that put me in violation of the ToS? Oh noessss! Send the SWAT team now!

>I find it funny, because I’ve never had to ask Philip if I can take a picture of him and me, I just talk to him and other people take the pictures.

Yes Prok, but that’s because you are the Lindsey Lohan of the metaverse.

But…It’s important to know how it works. People ask why I don’t blog about Metaplace, even being in the Beta. That’s because…we signed an agreement upon becoming Beta testers NOT to blog about MP.

However, recently, the MP folks started what they called an “evangelism” program. That is, if you wanted to sign up to be an “evangelist,” then you could blog — judiciously. The understanding with being an “evangelist” is that you will blog enthusiastically and positively. Which is all that Uri and Pixeleen have done so far. They’ve been perfectly good little evangelists.

I told Cuppycake at MP that I refuse to sign up for something called “evangelism” because that’s just not free media. You lose your independence from a game or world and its devs if you become their “evangelists” (I hate that term, and its rightly associated with religious cult recruitment).

Soon, they’ll be out of beta this summer and then normal, free, and independent blogging and news coverage can start. So far, when the bloggers-on-a-leash report positively in a program like this, Uri can blame *them* (like the BBC, which gave a very hypey coverage under the evangelism clause) rather than blaming the program that he himself has opted to join.

Of course, he’s failed to note that he is an Evangelist who signed up for this program. And no doubt thinks that because Raph is cool and MP is cool (and they are) that it’s ok to be on a leash. But it’s not. Raph will ultimately appreciate more the genuine and independent blogging coverage he gets.

Rita is quite the star- er…seeker. My first encounter with her was when she pressed into my hands an envelope full of her clippings at Virtual Worlds Expo in San Jose and said she was dying to meet me, and wanted me to read all her stuff — she was hustling her site to get gigs. I then noticed how she posed herself next to Philip Rosedale and asked to get her picture taken with him together. I’ve always found that sort of thing repulsive and exploitative, but it works, because then she can spread her picture all over town. I find it funny, because I’ve never had to ask Philip if I can take a picture of him and me, I just talk to him and other people take the pictures.

There is something so desperate and wannabee about these two, and they are awfully thin-skinned and block any criticism off YouTube, their blog, of their “Understanding Islam” site which should be renamed “Understanding Second Life Understanding What We Wish Islam Was” lol.

Perhaps it was precisely in order to protect such projects as this ridiculous one that Raph let slip into his TOS a clause discouraging criticism of religion, barring “disparaging of religious belief”.