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Pop Bots – Avatar of the Year – 2008

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk With the lunar new year celebrations behind us and a Gorean slave cleaning crew going through the Herald offices throwing out old Second Life Herald stationary – we're rockin’ Alphaville style now — a crucial story that somehow never made it to press was un-earthed. Yes, the most important [...]

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Alphaville Herald Acquires Second Life Herald

by Idoru Wellman, staff writer As part of a corporate restructuring, the Second Life Herald has been acquired by the Alphaville Herald. Current Herald staff will retain their positions, and the company plans to add staff as the editorial focus of the paper is broadened to include significantly more coverage of worlds and communities beyond [...]

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Slashed T-shirts To Pay For Metaverse?

Rezzable slashme <3 prim – prim feels violated by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk My iMojo 3G phone delivered an odd bit of email this morning -  a survey from metaverse development company Rezzable focused on online sales of real life t-shirts – a vital fashion accessory for basement-dwellers virtual world residents worldwide. Strictly speaking, [...]

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SL Grand Tour Starts Valentines Day

Group overcoming negative feelings from OpenSpace Sim change by Rose Springvale The Grand Tour Planning Committee is pleased to announce our secondGrand Tour on Saturday, February 14, 2009 beginning at 8:30 am SL time. TheGrand Tour was created last fall by a group of citizens who wanted toovercome the negative feelings generated by the change [...]

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WeeWorld WeeMee Wears Justin Timberlake’s Wardrobe

by Sigmund Leominster In my last excursion into the world of adolescents and ‘tweens, I became a new avatar, Pixeleen, and let loose my inner Barbie at the Barbie Girls™ virtual world. My latest trip was as a not-so-undercover reporter into WeeWorld, a virtual chat room populated by thousands of two-dimensional characters called WeeMees. Sigmund [...]

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Robin Harper Linden Farewell In Dublin – Friday 13th

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk This morning, Sitearm Madonna dropped off a press release at the Herald offices announcing "Bad Luck for Linden Lab Day" on friday the 13th — a farewell to Robin Harper Linden Reception at the Dublin 2 sim. The festivities will include a meet 'n greet and live music from [...]

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Meta Linden Talks Land Statistics

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk As Mitch Wagner and Cybergrrl Oh regaled the audience at today’s Copper Robot gabfest with tales of social network marketing from the frozen tundra of Alaska, it dawned on me that I was standing next to the spider that creates the land and economic statistics for Second Life – [...]

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Orphaned Raw Statistics Page Found!

Land statistics “temporarily unpublished” by Linden Lab Two other statistics page still missing – presumed dead by Pixeleen Mistral – National Affairs desk Authorities at the IETF Missing Web Pages bureau were relieved to see the orphaned “Economic Statistics (Raw Data Files)” page had been reunited with the rest of the Second Life web site [...]

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Private Eyes For Hire in SL

by Alessandra Narayan It all started due to a gap in SL’s service industry – and some resident's need to monitor other avatar's actions – but ended up becoming a profitable business. Now anyone can hire private detective to watch other avatar's moves, following them and filing elaborate. precise reports – a definite benefit for [...]

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Free Happiness Therapy – For You!

by Alessandra Narayan Have you ever heard of Sunshine Therapy Gardens? This is a place where you can listen to birds, nature sounds – and talk through your problems – relaxing and finding the answers you need, under the guidance of RJ Muni, a Netherlander licensed psycho/hypnotherapist decided to help people live better lives, especially [...]

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