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Herald Announces New Editorial Board
It is with great pleasure that the Herald announces its new editorial board, designed to keep the paper just as readable as before and in addition to make it more editor-friendly. Specifically, Herald Founding Editor Urizenus Sklar will now have even more time to chill on the Herald yacht, and Herald Editor in Chief Walker [...]
Full StoryScripted Dice Roll Themselves: D&D Comes to SL
by Fiend Ludwig Tringo, look out Tenderly spoofed by Stephen Colbert, and extolled by podcast pundit Alex Albrecht on Diggnation, pen-and-paper (or tabletop) Dungeons & Dragons—you know, that game with the Monster Manual and the Dungeon Master’s Guide and those funny shaped dice—seems to be experiencing a resurgence in popularity in a curious place: the [...]
Full StorySecondCast #34: And Now, The News
The latest episode of SecondCast, the only Second Life podcast that matters, is now available for your listening pleasure. We stick to the news in episode #34, covering Grid crashes, power outages at Linden Lab, and Hamlet’s recent video interview and wandering tongue, among other things. With special guest co-host, machinima queen Moo Money, for [...]
Full StorySecondCast #33: From Music to MySpace
There’s a new SecondCast on the air: in Episode #33 we talk to Mike Prevost of Muse Isle, a Second Life venue for live music performance, and Cylindrian Rutabaga, who often plays there. An interesting look at what it’s like to gig in the virtual world. Plus, listen along as the SecondCasters pimp their MySpace [...]
Full StoryBeeb Seeks Avs For MMORPG Doc
The BBC is in production on an hour-long television documentary on massively multiplayer online games, and they’re looking for subjects to interview. If your avatar is “more like you than you are” — or even if you’re just a noob — get in touch with them and maybe you too can appear on British television. [...]
Full StoryIncredibly Hostile Exchanges: A Chat With Philip Linden
by Prokofy Neva, Special to the Second Life Herald Today marks the first day of the last of the Second Life forums. As Linden Lab begins to shut down the message boards that have been home since beta to a never-ending stream of advice, sales pitches, information and vitriol, the Herald took the opportunity to [...]
Full StorySecondCast #30: Privacy and Private Jokes
Johnny “Jazz Hands” Ming is back, with the latest episode of Second Life‘s favorite podcast, SecondCast. In Episode #30 we talk to Mark Barrett, who created the SLStats.com site, which has caused no small amount of controversy among SL residents. SLStats, until Mark altered the site, tracked how much time you’d spent in Second Life, [...]
Full StoryPortraits from SLCC
SL residents attempt hallway camping at SLCC in hopes of earning L$2 per 10 minutes With the Herald on a shoestring budget this year, we had little opportunity to see Hamlet get horizontal, but there were plenty of faces on display among the crowd of 400+ devoted SL residents in attendance. Without further ado, we [...]
Full StoryNegative Coordinates: Griefing in the Unverified Age
by Fiend Ludwig Nukes at the Welcome Area “There were two; flying around and shooting each other, but they wandered closer to where I was building. So I said hello and gave them tea. They started pushing me and shot me once.” So a friend wrote me recently after a particularly unfortunate incident of griefing. [...]
Full StorySecondCast #29: zzzzz . . .
Second Cast Episode #29 is out, and it’s a real snoozer! Actually, I haven’t listened to it yet (I missed the taping yet again, unfortunately), but as Johnny Ming puts it in his show notes, “The show was so riveting that Cristiano fell asleep.” The crew also interviews SL resident Tony Tigereye, owner of the [...]
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