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A Gallery of Lies!
The bullshit and hyperventilation about recent developments in Second Life has now officially turned into a theater of the absurd. Rohit Bhargava, a VP for Interactive Marketing with Public Relations giant Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, has a recent post on digitalmedia wire entitled “A Gallery of Virtual ‘Firsts’ from Second Life.” Readers of the Herald [...]
Full StorySo you are pondering a career as a Linden currency speculator?
Tell me you haven’t fantasized a career as a currency speculator specializing in Linden dollars. Heck, I *know* someone who tried to do it by manipulating the market with those down home SL gangsta tactics. Is it feasible? Enter Forex Forays: Ideas and Insights from the World of Currency Trading, a blog that specializes in [...]
Full StoryTelegraph Interview with Ludlow Continues…
Yesterday, Telegraph reporter Ian Douglass posted an interview with Peter Ludlow that covered issues like virtual crime and dispute resolution. In part two, published today, Ian leads the discussion into the topic of personal identity online, and in particular the possibility that self-identity involves the collaborative construction of narratives about ourselves. Both online and off. [...]
Full StoryJust in time for Herald 3rd Birthday: Lost Daily Show Episode Discovered!
Finally someone put this on YouTube. Following is your link to the classic Daily Show episode in which correspondent Rob Corddry dives into our reportage of the TSO cyber-brothel scandal. Along the way he confronts EA spokesman Jeff Brown for being a “cheetah-deleter,” leans about “rough granny sex”, and wets himself a whole lot. Oh [...]
Full StoryAnother Reality Check from the MSM: Daily Telegraph Interviews Media Mack Daddy, Peter Ludlow
No sooner did I link to the the story by Mark Glaser with his smackdown on the hyperventilating Business Week story, but now The Daily Telegraph from the UK has signed up for Herald Reality Therapy ™ and offers part one of an interview with the always fairly unbalanced ™ typist for Urizenus Sklar. The [...]
Full StoryFinall! A Reality Check Comes from the MSM
Mark Glaser of PBS has finally tapped the brakes on what has been the unrelenting hyperventilation about Second Life by the Mainstream Media. Kudos to Tony Walsh, whose calls for reflection seem to have caught Glaser’s attention. My favorite remarks by Glaser were the one’s reserved for Business Week: BusinessWeek, rather than set up its [...]
Full StoryBen Folds’ New Song: Second Life Mutha-F-ers Need to get a Real Life
Fresh from F-bombing Second Lifers in an underwhelming performance at the SONY Island in Second life Ben (Hasbeen) Folds has been hard at work in his studio writing about the life-altering roof-shifting experience that is Second Life while doing shots of Jaeger with Mel Gibson and arranging the adoption of a Malawi orphan via Skype. [...]
Full StoryTop 25 Screenshots in Herald History!
BallerMoMo King, back in the day. We continue our lead-up to the Herald third birthday party on Wed Thursday the 26th at 2PM, with a stroll down memory lane with some classic screenshots from the Herald archives.Following are Uri’s choices for the top screenshots in the Herald library (which is to say that not all [...]
Full StorySaluting the Herald Paparazzi: Top Herald Photos of Past 3 Years
Philip Linden on hearing the news that Uri is back writing for the Herald. As the third birthday party of the Second Life Herald approaches, we thought a stroll down memory lane was in order. And who could provide a nicer stroll than the Herald Paparazzi? In this post, Uri’s choices for the top 10 [...]
Full StorySlashdot Joins Backlash Against Linden Kool-Aid
While the Mainstream Meadia (MSM) continues to uncritically slurp down the Linden Kool-Aid, people with some experience in online games and virtual communities continue to say Whoa Nellie! We’ve reported the reservations by Zero Grace and Matt Mihaley, but there is also a tough tough comment thread over on Terra Nova in which luminaries like [...]
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