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GM Joins Corporate Invasion of SL: Residents Wake up and Begin to Smell the Coffee
Concerned Citizens Debate Chief Pontiac’s Invasion of SL. The Pontiac Division of failing Michigan-based auto-maker, General Motors Corporation, has announced that it will soon join the recent corporate invation of Second Life, offer free land (rumored to be as many as 5 simulators) to support the development of “car culture” in Second Life. According to [...]
Full StoryIs SL More Like Paris Hilton or Tyra Banks?
While the mainstream media (hereafter MSM) continues its uncritical jeans-creaming over Second Life, bloggers who are actually familiar with virtual spaces are less easily aroused. In the latest blogger broadside, The Forge , massively unimpressed by the Ben Folds nonevent, calls Second Life the “Paris Hilton of virtual wolds. Famous for being famous and little [...]
Full StoryWashed up Emo Musician Drops F-Bomb on Fans in SL Visit
video by Theage.com paparrazo, Stephen Hutcheon Ben Folds, a washed up solo musician straddling the that rich musical territory somewhere between emo and John Denver, had a “virtual launch party” at Sony BMG’s Media Island, a beach head in the corporate invasion of Second Life. As the above video by Stephen Hutcheon shows, virtual release [...]
Full StoryNY Times Joins Chorus of Linden Fluffers
In yet another nauseating puff piece in a string of nauseating puff pieces about Second Life, The New York Times has offered a story with little depth of analysis, but some nice pictures of Philip and Prok. Summing up the story, the content seems to be this: “Gosh golly, companies that I have heard of [...]
Full StoryYale Daily News blasts SL: “Second Life is a nerdy, Jolt-fueled pastime for social cripples and perverts”
In a blistering assessment of his first visit to Second Life, Micheal Seringhaus of the Yale Daily News cuts through the Reuters fluff and offers that the reality is rather different than the “sober assesments” given by mainstream media. I was mostly ignored, occasionally propositioned for text-based sex and wholly unable to conduct business. I [...]
Full StoryThe Register blasts C|Net’s Terdiman for being Linden Fluffer
The Herald has long appreciated the fine work of Daniel Terdiman for Wired News and now C|Net (not least his reporting on the Alphaville elections and the Roomba Frogger game instantiation event), but today he has come under fire from Ashlee Vance at The Register. According to Vance, Terdiman’s recent “breathless” coverage of Second Life, [...]
Full StoryHe’s baaaack…. Urizenus Returns to Herald: plans Kool-aid-free Zone
Yes, I’m back and working for Pixleen as a regular contributor to the Herald because I just can’t freaking take it. Any. More. As the Lindens are feted for having 1 million non-paying subscribers (99.9% alts) and the so-called serious media goobers come in with their breathless brain-dead Philip-fluffing puff pieces, and as Reuben’s “Minions [...]
Full StoryThe Nutty Professor on TSO and the Second Jessie War
Oh baby, when will they retire that nutty professor? Herald Paparazzi caught up with him at the Computers and Philosophy conference at RPI, expounding on the history of Evangeline’s Hotel Erotica, the Sim Sorority House, the Sim Shadow Government, the Free Money for Newbies scam house, Uri’s banning from TSO, One Song, the WWIIOLers, the [...]
Full StoryTerdiman Examines SL “Age Play”
News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman has written a thoughtful piece discussing age play in second life — the practice of playing minors, presumably often for sexual purposes. There is also a good interview with Terdiman, by Tony Walsh, on Clickable Culture. We have but two comments. First, while the article says the practice is legal, I [...]
Full StoryForbes Associated Press: Peeping Tom Linden is Watching You
There is an interesting article in Forbes online from the Associated Press about the new crop of sex games, reported ages ago here in the Herald. But what is really truly interesting is what the article has to say about the “relatively successful” platform Second Life: “The game is not designed to be sexual in [...]
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