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It Has To Be Said: Pseudo-Realities
As reported here, two teens were sentenced to four years of prison each for using Facebook to incite a riot after UK officials monitored social media. Prime Minister David Cameron stated that while social medi can be used for good, the same media can also be used for ill and must be monitored and controlled. [...]
Full StoryPhilip Linden: All Copyable Content Will Be Free
Second Life founder suggests selling live experiences Second Life’s content creators may be in deep trouble if Philip Rosedale – the on-again, off-again CEO of Linden Lab – can forsee the future of online content. Mr. Rosedale is quoted in the Time magazine Future of Content Time 100 Roundtable as saying, "anything that can be [...]
Full StoryOne Man’s Story: The Second Life Economy
Selling virtual drugs, guns, clothes, and wheels while camping for L$s by Frankie Antonioni. Since early 2008 I have been in business in Second Life, and by March of 2008 I had two stores running. In August of 2008, I had about 19,000 L$. Both of my stores sold drugs and other goods: clothes, cars, [...]
Full StoryMike Godwin Falls Victim to Nazi Tactics! Can’t Say so for Fear of Violating Own Law.
Why did Mike Godwin resign his position as General Counsel of Wikipedia? the speculation in the Hall of Mirrors™ is that Godwin has been pushed out because of his smack talking the FBI over the use of the FBI seal on Wikipedia.
Full StoryMPAA’s Copyprotected.com p0wned by Anonymous
Hactivists use MPAA web site to spread anti-copyright message The cyberwar between the Anonymous hactivists and recording and motion picture industry interests heated up earlier today when the www.copyprotected.com site was hijacked to display an anti-MPAA message in support of the embattled Pirate Bay bittorrent tracker site, then redirected viewers to the piratebay.org site. As [...]
Full StoryVatican to Launch Virtual World
New-Media Strategy Makes Catholicism Hip Again By Journey Yellowlist, Herald Religion Pew Desk Even as His Holiness Pope Benedict launched a frontal assault against media in general and virtual worlds in particular, the Church has rolled out its own competitor to soon to collapse once-heralded Second Life. Ex Cathedratm will soon launch using a dedicated [...]
Full StoryGameCrush – Hawt Online PlayDates for Basement Dwellers
Gamers have been frequently stereotyped as having poor social skills. Consider, for example, Felicia Day’s Web series The Guild that relates the stories of a group of dysfunctional World of Warcrafters who are good at looting and farming, but not at interacting with one another or maintaining a relationship. But help is on the way [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab: We Don’t Need No Education
Discounted Second Life virtual land will be phased out for non-profit organizations and the education sector as of January 1, 2011 according to this announcement by Nelson Linden. Reaction was predictably negative from those whose budget cycles do easily accommodate costs doubling with three months notice – in other words, essentially all non-profits and education. [...]
Full StoryFake Trial of Century Ends
Bigfoot Convicted — Miss Petunia to Be Sentenced by Herald Reader survey!!! by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Legal Desk Bored office-clones clung to the edges of their coffee-stained chairs, withered doyens of the china-cup crowd shredded lace hankies in anguish, and drunken hillbillies fell off pickle-barrels in the general store in hysterics as Judge I.R. “Hang [...]
Full StoryMetaverse Meetup – Long Beach July 30 – 31
Future of Metaverse be decided around a hookah on Queen Mary? The decks of the Queen Mary will echo at the end of July with the sound of open source techno-communists in jackboots, academics in clogs, birkenstock and flip-flop clad developers, and more than a few virtual world entrepreneurs sporting the sort of [...]
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