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Desperately Seeking Family: Ageplay Adoption Agencies in Second Life
by Muffin K. Smith Jaelle Akula of New World Adoption Ageplay in Second Life has received a lot of media attention ever since early March, when Linden Labs distributed notecards to places that cater to people who seek sex with child avatars. The wording of this notecard, as reported in the Herald, includes the line [...]
Full Storyupdated: We didn’t Want You to Know This, But Agitators Will Be Banned
Op/Ed by Urizenus Sklar Most people in the Second Life infosphere have heard that SL agitator and SL Herald contributor Prokofy Neva has been banned from the Second Life Community Convention in Chicago. The exchanges between Prok and the FIC have been pretty off the hook (on both sides), so we can understand why some [...]
Full StorySL Herald Sold to Aimee Weber Studios
by new Herald Reporter, Tateru Ninu Ms. Weber establishes new Herald Editorial Policy. Urizenus Sklar and Walker Spaight today announced the sale of the Second Life Herald, its intellectual property and in game assets to Aimee Weber Studios in exchange for $50,000 US. The deal, apparently struck at the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference, will certainly [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worlds 2007, Report #5: Venture Capital and The New School of Athens
by Urizenus Sklar As I reported Wednesday, much of the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference reeked of the anxiety of marketing guys and gals trying to catch up with the next wave. The fear was palpable. Why else would those people be sitting in that auditorium taking notes like they were Gorean slaves pressed into service [...]
Full StoryDo Something Good for Once!
OK all you SL script kiddies, hackers, builders, goons, and event managers, now is your chance to do something good with your skillz. Jennifer Schlegel with TechSoup.org passed along this announcement to us — a call for projects on using tech for social good. There are already a few SL projects in the mix. Note [...]
Full StoryHerald Writers Pwn Nerd of the Week
The long awaited episode #2 of Nerd of the Week is out (or has been for weeks, does it matter?), and Herald staffers figure heavily in the cutting edge of nerddom. In particular, we get more than enough words or wisdom from Editorial Director Walker Spaight (aka Mark Wallace) and Prokofy Neva. And did Prok [...]
Full StorySecond Life Back Stories: The City of Lost Angels
[All the fanfare about Second Life and virtual worlds more generally has to do with the builds and the things you can capture with Fraps and screenshots. But in my view that isn't where the action is. The builds and textures and skins and clothes are just eye candy designed to facilitate the creation of [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worlds 2007, report #1
By Urizenus Sklar All quotes guaranteed to possibly be accurate. I climbed out my cab in Battery Park, eager to take in Virtual Worlds 2007 conference and hear the latest developments in virtual worlds. But what is this? The other taxis pulling up are not yielding scruffy game devs and virtual platform development geeks, but [...]
Full StoryPower to the SLitizens!: Here Come the SL Anarchists!
The Second Life Anarchists, also known as the Durruti Group (after Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti) have a cause and they have a manifesto (reprinted below the fold). But my favorite part of the manifesto is the following parenthetical remark: While we laud LL for their foresight, and technical achievement in bringing SL to be, and [...]
Full StoryThrown to the Wolves: A Newbie Discovers Yiffing.
[This article originally appeared in the in-world magazine Players, published by Second Life uberwoman Marilyn Murphy. Some names have been changed to protect the yifficent. If you are (i) at work or (ii) under 18 or (iii) easily offended by things like yiffing FOR GOPOD's SAKE STOP READING NOW!. -- the management] Thrown to the [...]
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