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Op-Ed: Avatars United – A Social Network Too Far?

by Sigmund Leominster If you’re becoming jaded by the tales of the inconsequential status and activity of the Justice League Unlimited, which, as a group, must now hold some sort of record in terms of column inches in the Herald (inversely proportional to the inches of their primmy penises), and fapping to Post 6 Grrrlz [...]

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Six Apart Seeks Safe Harbor From Justice League Unlimited DMCA Storm

Embarrassed Second Life role-play superhero police force swings mighty DMCA hammer again by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Herald coverage of the Justice League Unlimited has been edited by Six Apart staff to remove text and images which Six Apart has informed the Herald are subject to copyright infringement claims. This action came after the [...]

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Rhapsody Heartsdale — Post 6 Grrrrl

(The Herald Editorial Staff wish to thank Daeynaries for theoutstanding job she did as Post 6 Photographer during Timothy'svacation. We look forward to working with her again in the future). (RhapsodyHeartsdale is probably one of the funnest people I've met in my travelsthrough SL. Shes witty, full of life, and her av is amazingly dark. [...]

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Op/Ed: Second Life Resident Comments on JLU Superpowers

Have you taken a look in a mirror lately? You're a walking infringement… AnnOTooleInSL's  Xtranormal.com video commentary on the Second Life Justice League Unlimited situation:

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Class To Be Held…Inside a Facebook App???

by Idoru Wellman, Herald Education Desk On January 28, in what may be the first instance of a university course held inside Facebook, Northwestern University Philosophy Professor Peter Ludlow (known to Herald readers as Urizenus Sklar) recently attempted to hold his class, Conceptual Issues in Virtual Worlds, inside the Island Life application on Facebook.  The [...]

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Typepad Threatens Takedown of Herald Justice League Unlimited Exposé

Will role-play superheros' copyright claims trump free speech? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affair desk Typepad administrator Jen has given Herald a deadline of January 29th to gut our coverage of the Second Life Justice League Unlimited's wiki, citing a Typepad Terms of Service violation for "displaying copyrighted text and images without permission". The Herald has [...]

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JLU Wiki Re-Indexed and Republished

Second Life Superman's Abuse Reports indexed and regions ranked by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk   Sandbox superheros: Justice League Unlimited greatest hits for Abuse Reporting Although Kalel Venkman has been playing copyright whack-a-mole to limit the spread of the leaked Justice League Unlimited wiki, interested parties continue to study the the Second Life vigilante [...]

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Shika Nakamura — Post 6 Grrrrl

[RegularPost 6 Photographer Timothy Morpork continues to gorge himself on thelido deck buffet while Daeynaries Lane keeps us stocked with Post 6Models.] (So if you guys couldn't tell, I've been picking quitea few roleplayers from the Carp and Midian community. This is becausewell.. I know a buttload of girls who deserve recognition. Shika beingone of [...]

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The Horror, The Horror: Prim-Baby Graveyard!!!

SLebrity Children Found – Satanic Plot Possible by Pappy Enoch, Investigative Reporter Baby Philip? Now ya’ll thought—well, hoped—I might be dead, but I ain’t. I was just saving my strength and doing me some Woodward-and-Bumstead-style undercover reports on a terrible, awful thing.  We all knows that Second Life’s fake world am full to the brim [...]

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OpenSim Regions Predicted to Overtake Second Life in 2011

OpenSim growth rates shame Linden Lab by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Citing an annualized OpenSim growth rate of 177%, Maria Korolov predicts the OpenSim grids will overtake Second Life in early 2011 in an article in Hypergrid Business. Ms. Korolov made her prediction after comparing the 29% increase in OpenSim regions between September and [...]

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