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Dolcett 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: [...]
Full StoryThrowing my Helmet into the Ring: A Mixed-Reality “Event”
by Jimbo Quality [What can we say? The idiot strikes again.--Walker Spaight] Lately, in real life, I’ve been hanging around at my local airport. I started going there a few months ago to price airline tickets to Chicago for the Second Life Community Convention, but now I go for the coffee. (I tell you, someday [...]
Full StoryMario Gerosa: “Stop the Criminalization of Second Life!”
It seems like every day there is more bad press about the moral and legal problems with Second Life. Ageplay, for example, has caught the attention of courts and media outlets ranging from the US, to the Netherlands, to Germany, to France to Italy. Mario Gerosa has said “enough is enough” and is fighting back. [...]
Full StoryHerald Editorial Director to Wed Sheepish Virtual Videographer?
by Pat the Rat Just what does he propose? Walker Spaight and Destroy Television? You heard it here first, boys and girls. Pat the Rat was lurking in the cathedral in the Big Easy, expiating some sins — and you know Pat has a lot of sins to atone for — when who should wander [...]
Full StoryThe Idiot Investigates: SLingo Ageplay Scandal in Second Life?
by Jimbo Quality Master of disguises Jimbo Quality [As part of his Travels With the Idiot series, we sent Herald investigative reporter Jimbo Quality to look into reports of ageplay-related transgressions in the SLingo community. Judge for yourself whether we got our money's worth.--Walker Spaight] For me, the hardest part of being a big time [...]
Full StoryPlayboy Does A Strip-Tease For Second Life
Check out the latest ad buy on the Herald (see the right sidebar, top) and you’ll see that the inevitable is finally about to happen: Playboy Magazine is entering the virtual world of Second Life. Always the tease, there’s no word yet on what form Playboy’s presence there will take, but you can begin to [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: A Neko Cyborg Asks, “Where Do We Go From Here?”
by Syd Loon (Neko Cyborg Informant) A “proper” prosperous capitalistic society with reason and purpose emerges from the burning embers of a historically passionate art and development community. A natural open source economy, is overshadowed by demeaning skyscrapers filled with marketing executives, armed with nondisclosure agreements, scouring the lands for the next branding concept to [...]
Full StoryAnshe Pays US$60,000 to Open Virtual Pawn Shop in Entropia
Land baron Anshe Chung expanded her empire today by winning one of five banking licenses in the wild and wooly virtual world of Entropia Universe, according to a late-breaking report from RCE Universe. Anshe paid PED600,000 (US$60,000, or more than L$16 million) for the right to make collateralized loans in Entropia, meaning any banks that [...]
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