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Emerald Viewer: 76000 Unique Users Could Be Wrong
Earlier this evening, lead Emerald viewer developer Fractured Crystal claimed that 76,000 unique users run the Emerald client – a significant portion of the active Second Life community and clear indication that the Emerald viewer is the most popular alternative to the official Second Life client software. But ongoing rumors of questionable conduct on the [...]
Full StoryVirtual Vigilantes – Eggheads Are Watching the Watchers
Over at at Henry Jenkins blog and MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media site, part one of Herald founder Urizenus Sklar’s think piece Watching the Watchers: Power and Politics in Second Life traces the evolution of both the online world griefing phenomena and the virtual security operations that have emerged to counter griefers. Posting the [...]
Full StorySaga of Second Life vs. Shameless Blatant Furries
The Saga of Second Life is a provocative six minute video which argues M Linden’s the pursuit of a corporate-friendly suburban-style virtual world is doomed to massive fail – and at odds with the interests of the players that built Second Life. This is not the sort of message that Linden fanboys enjoy hearing, so [...]
Full StoryEstonia Annexed As Soviet Woodbury Expands !!!
Over the last 24 hours, Soviet Woodbury annexed both the Estonia and Animation sims to double the land under Soviet control – a grim confirmation of the worst fears of Kalel Venkman’s Justice League Unlimited vigilantes and their allies in Second Life. Estonia Annexed – LindenWorld blocked from connecting to Glorious Future sim Is this [...]
Full StoryBaby Starves – Korean Couple Pleads Ignorance, Internet Gaming Addiction
The Korean couple who’s child starved to death while they played marathon sessions of an online 3-D game plead guilty to negligent homicide Friday and apparently blamed an unfortunate combination of missing owners’ manuals for the child and Internet gaming addiction. CNN reports that the South Korean couple engaged in 10 hour overnight gameplay sessions [...]
Full StoryThe Epic Fail of Second Life Groups
The hypergrowth needed to create an online mass media continues to elude Second Life – but why? If Second Life is meant to be more than a 3D Potemkin village construction kit, one might expect the group and chat systems to be top priority – yet chat remains perma-gimped due to basic architectural flaws which [...]
Full StoryREVIEW: Sutherland Dam Theatre of The Absurd
For those who missed last night’s performance, Crap Mariner has captured some of the zeitgeist of the Sutherland Dam theatrical troupe’s performances with a spoof of M Linden’s fixation on holding avatar based meetings in the Second Life game world. But a superficial treatment of these performances does not do justice to the effort noted [...]
Full StoryMayor of Victoriana: $30,000 Wasted, Lindens Killed The Dream
LittleBlackDuck Lindsay – mayor of Victoriana and Tinytoriana – announced his departure from Second Life in a scathing pair of notecards distributed to residents of Victoriana’s 13 sims over the last two days. While this is a sad day for Linden Lab partisans, fans of LittleBlackDuck’s communities remain hopeful that Victoriana and Tinytoriana will be [...]
Full StorySkills Hak Tags Over 4000 Copybot Capable Avatars
Skills Hak is claiming significant success for the Gemini Cybernetics CDS anti-copybot system, and recently told the Herald "we looked up the number of uniquely flagged avatars using malicious viewers, the number is 4424. There have been around 70 appeals of which we granted 11, none of them were false posities, but extenuating circumstances". When [...]
Full StorySuperman In Disgrace – JLU Mole Haruhi Thespian Tells All
In an exclusive interview, Haruhi Thespian describes the infiltration of Kalel Venkman’s Justice League Unlimited of Second Life – a daring mission that led to the exposure of the JLU’s formerly secret wiki. The publication of the wiki resulted in revelations of the virtual superhero’s coordinated program of secret surveillance and harassment of other community [...]
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