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Fashion Show Review: Retro Girl
by Chipsen Queso Tonight, I attended a “fashion show” at a new place called the “cyldane restaurant.” Calling this a fashion show is a complete and total affront to the fashion industry in SecondLife. This wasn’t a fashion show – this was having 6 outfits walk around a square without posing. The entire thing lasted [...]
Full StoryMainland Sim Sells for $1800 in LL Auction
Auction winner Philo Hatfield by Prokofy Neva Following through on promised land auction price changes announced by CEO Philip Linden last month, Linden Lab has auctioned its first whole mainland sim today for a staggering US $1800 for 63,728 m2. Lida, a wooded hilly mature sim in the new continent located next to the Allena [...]
Full StoryCabinhead is Dead
As reported in the SL Forums, Schwanson Schlegel has pulled the plug on his Cabinhead project – a private welcome island he set up to help acclimate newbs to SL. Several reasons are given, but (1) and (5) stand out: 1) Continued shitty customer service from LL. I find it increasingly difficult to communicate with [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl: montserrat Snakeankle
The Herald is happy to present to you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, montserrat Snakeankle! Monsterrat is not only a very beautiful woman, but she is also a writer for the Herald who arrived here in February and enjoys writing and admiring things that other people do, without actually doing them herself. We at the [...]
Full StoryCommodify Me! Chapter 2
Thanks again to Clickable Culture for reporting on this little gem — A breakdown of the way Massive Incorporated‘s in-game advertising works. Seems that not only are the ads placed in the game, but the marketers collect information about the amount of time the ad is viewed by individual players, the size at which they [...]
Full StorySimcast Project is Dead
The Simcast project is now officially defunct, yet another failed attempt at developing a player vs. player combat game within second life. The Herald is working on a full post mortem on the project (Herald Publisher Urizenus Sklar was involved in the project), but in brief it failed for a combination of reasons, including security [...]
Full StoryCommodify me! After saying no to academics and journalists, Lindens say Yes! to “cool hunters”
The Linden Brain Trust: Cory, Philip, and Robin Thanks again to Zero Grace for culling this from the GLS Conference video feeds. After the Lindens raised a stink about academics and journalists hanging out on second life, and after insisting that the usual academic human subjects committes and safeguards were not enough and that the [...]
Full StoryCory Disavows FIC, then throws it $17K in Business
The ever vigilant Zero Grace of the Clickable Culture flog blog is reporting the strange confluence of two proclamations from Cory Linden. The first one is Cory’s claim at the GLS conference that there is no inner core of users with important access to the Lindens, and Cory’s almost simultaneous announcement that a bank has [...]
Full StoryA Window on the Teen Grid
Teens pour into SL’s new “Teen Grid” As reported by Hammie Linden in New World Notes, the Second Life Teen Grid has its first blog, called Second Age, under he stewardship of Aesop Thatch, who is a fine writer btw. Early stories cover the clubs, a recent influx of noobs, and of course the Young [...]
Full StorySkin Review: Hybrid by Santana Lumiere
by Chipsen Queso Late last year, a former writer for the Herald interviewed five of SecondLife’s top skin creators in order to get their view of things. As a bit of a follow-up, we at the Herald’s fashion department (being the skin-o-holics that we are) have decided to do a weekly skin review, beginning with [...]
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