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Herald Exclusive: It’s Official — Anshe Chung is a Millionaire! [Updated]
Anshe Chung spun $10 into $1,000,000 in two and a half years. According to Second Life resident Anshe Chung , tomorrow she will issue a press release officially announcing that she has accumulated the equivalent of over one million US dollars in assets in Second Life. The bulk of these assets are in Anshe’s virtual [...]
Full StoryCrayonista Chapman Pans Jay-Z/Kimmel Hypervent [Updated]
Man-o-man, Crayonista C.C. Chapman ‘s been chuggin’ the Haterade! A few more blog posts like this and we may have to hire him to write for the Herald. After a sim crash and delays upon delays Jay-Z finally performed. His avatar danced around the stage while we heard the live stream from the performance. Just [...]
Full StoryTaking Wagers: When Will Linden Lab Sell
by Flimflam Edelman at the Puppies, Ponies, and Other Action Desk There is always chitchat in world about the possibility of Linden Lab selling out soon, but now the chitchat is coming from “RL” blogs. Last week PR Marketing guru B.L. Ochman predicted that Second Life would go within three weeks. Two weeks left for [...]
Full StoryDid Official Live Helper Threaten Goons Over Furry Ageplay Report?
Goons Allegedly Threatened with DMCA Action for “Mockery” Don’t fuck with THIS Offical Live Helper. Image via Petey at Something Awful. A recent post on the Something Awful site has exposed the seldom talked about fault lines in the Second Life Community and raised a number of difficult issues. When an earlier post on Something [...]
Full StoryGoons Boldly Go…
Yes yes I know this is badly dated. We are talking *early* November already. But I didn’t come here to bring you the n3wz, I came here to bring you the *tr00th*. And today the truth takes the form of Something Awful goons, suiting up ala Kirk, Spock, and…who is that bald guy anyway? (hmm [...]
Full StoryUri does Amanda Chapel
What happens when the baddest bad boy of virtual tabloid journalism and Strumpette‘s Amanda Chapel (Amanda Vale in SL)– the baddest bad grrrl of the PR biz — get together? Get your minds out of the gutter! I meant *before* they retired to the sexy skybox above the Herald Headquarters. Well, in this interview Amanda [...]
Full StoryThe Birthing of the N00bs (and the Plight of the Midwives)
Pity the Slave Mentors, Who Are Charged With Raising The N00bs In this remarkable video, posted by Koz on YouTube (sorry, I don’t know who Koz is), we see and endless succession of grey newbies being birthed and slowly texturing. This raises the question of who looks after this process — who are the midwives [...]
Full StoryRaph Koster on SL User Numbers: “Something Doesn’t Add Up”
We’ve heard all the hype about a million residents of Second Life and talk about two million users being just around the corner. But, in a recent blog post, Raph Koster takes a look at the recent population stats released at the most recent Linden Town Hall Meeting. If you have experience with typical VW [...]
Full StoryFlog-funding Edelman PR Firm and Sheep Offer Chump Change in Bogus Contest
If You Lie Down With Dogs You Wake up with Fleas. But What Happens if Sheep Lie Down with Dogs? The SL Blogosphere has been all a twitter about the joint initiative between the Electronic Sheep Corporation and the Edelman PR firm. Part of this initiative is a prize with a value of $2500 for [...]
Full StoryHorse Racing: Horses Lag in Babcock Downs Grand Opening
By Flimflam Edelman Greetings Racing Fans. I spent the day at the grand opening of Babcock Downs, hoping to earn some spare change to make up for the recent shortfall in my earnings. This shortfall owing to me having shuttered my Fell Off The Truck appliance and cigarette store in protest of that ratfuck copybot [...]
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