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Dog Days of August for SLCC?
According to a post over at 3pointD.com, this year’s Second Life Community Convention is rumored to be scheduled for the dog days of mid-August, out in sunny San Francisco. Not much more information has surfaced yet, other than the fact that it looks like SL’s premier meatspace meet-up will take up three days this year [...]
Full StoryMonster Boats Sail Forth
by Budka Groshomme As a show of strength of the water community in SL, the Second Life Sailing Federation has created docks in Sanchon and invited all sailors to show their creativity and approaches to building working sailing craft. The monster boat show ends Tuesday, so if you want to see and experience sailing in [...]
Full StorySecondCast Episode 12: Fashionistas
Episode 12 of the Grid’s favorite radio show, SecondCast, is now cooked and ready for listening. This week, we flap our gums with Second Life’s fashionista crew, including Nephilaine Protagonist of Pixel Dolls, Lo Jacobs of Luxe Designs, and Celebrity Trollop of the cool new SecondStyle magazine and blog. Listen at the SecondCast site or [...]
Full StorySteamPunks Seek Sim Funds
A new steampunk group is now taking donations for the creation of a steampunk sim in Second Life. Interestingly, they’ve built a model of their proposed cityscape in the Celadon sim, creating what’s in effect a little virtual virtual world. Use the SLurlPane at Herald affiliate site 3pointd.com to go direct to Celadon, and check [...]
Full StoryTown Hall Meetings Take to the Airwaves
SL’s Town Hall meetings are getting an overhaul. When King Philip himself logs in tomorrow to field resident questions at 7:00pm SLT, it won’t be in the usual lag-fraught, unreadable chat format, but in an audio feed streamed all over the Grid. SL resident Johnny Ming’s SecondCast was recently contracted to produce the audio Town [...]
Full StoryBlogosphere Gets New Herald Affiliate
A new blog hits the blogosphere this month, run by the uber-reporter currently known as Mark Wallace (but also known as Herald editor Walker Spaight). Check out 3pointD.com for news of all things 3D Web-related, including stories from virtual worlds. The blog is kindly sponsored by the Electric Sheep virtual world services company, and will [...]
Full StoryGoing Live With Sherry Turkle and Friends
SL resident Gwyneth Llewelyn sends word of a live radio broadcast from Second Life, to be held this afternoon at 4pm SLT. A forum announcement indicates the Radio Open Source episode will feature an “all-star roster,” including MIT’s Sherry Turkle, one of the most interesting commentators on online communities. And oh yeah, there might be [...]
Full StoryLinux SL Client Gets Its Own Blog
With the release of a Linux client for Second Life, we knew it was only a matter of time before the SL community would take to constructively picking the software apart for bugs, improvements and other cool stuff — as those wacky Linux users always do. To help them along and record their progress, SL [...]
Full StoryHerald Downtime Requirements Exposed!
Not just rock stars and Vice Presidents have special needs when they travel. Perhaps you wondered about the “Downtime Requirements” of the Herald Editorial Board when they stay in their l337 diggs at the Driskill in Austin or the Tribeca Grande in New York. Well, in a spirit of full disclosure, and so that the [...]
Full StorySpreading the Love at Linden Lab: Eeeeewwwww…
Is Second Life a platform, a game, a country, a virtual world, a corporate application, something in between? We were tossing these ideas around last night on SecondCast (new episodes now available, btw), but we never settled on the real truth, as revealed in this blog post from Yahoo! technologist Bradley Horowitz: Second Life is [...]
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