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Ex-Second Life Newspaper SLNN Now Covering Golden Grrrls?
Metaverse loses another news source as SLNN changes ownership and direction by Tenshi Vielle SLNN's coverage of the Second Life world has gone missing and is now feared dead. For nearly two weeks, the formerly Second Life-oriented news service's web site has been unresponsive. Readers attempting to access current or past articles are greeted with [...]
Full StoryWrite About the Herald, Get a Pulitzer Prize
by Urizenus Sklar, reporting from the Zac Efron party tent at the Pulitzer awards. The Herald is pleased to report that Jim Schaefer and some of his colleagues at the Detroit Free Press have received a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Kwame Kilpatrick affair. What we media insiders know is that while Schaefer [...]
Full StoryIt’s 4/20 — Do You Know Where Your Medical Marijuana Is?
Part time griefer and journalist advocates for medical marijuana By Doctor Ocularis, Herald Medical Desk photo stolen from Metro Spirit Today being April 20 (aka 4/20) it is only fitting that we link to a story about weed. In this case we link to a story by Joshua McCracken in the Augusta Georgia Metro Spirit. [...]
Full StorySHOCK! Sky News Closes Second Life News Bureau!!!
by Sigmund Leominster The Prophets of Doom can wallow in the demise of yet another major newscorporation's exit from the Second Life virtual world. Britain's Sky News has announcedthat it is formally closing down its SL island and moving to a "new'Immersive Workspaces' platform in Second Life where employees meet toexchange ideas and do business." [...]
Full StoryVirtual Journalism Heavyweights Gather in Virtual Journalism Summit
Helen Thomas, Virtual World Reporter by Field Marshal McLuhan, at the new media desk As I type this, a group of virtual journalism heavyweights gather at a Virtual Journalism Summit, presumably atop Mount Journalism, in Washington State. Among the heavyweights attending the summit are 89 year old White House Correspondent Hellen Thomas, virtual world sleuth [...]
Full StoryThe Awful Truth About Internet Dating!
by Dr. Denise Levertov, virtual advice columnist dear dr. denise: i'm lonely, desperate, and thinking of dating on the internet. my friends tell me I'm crazy, but what is the worst that could happen? is there anything I should watch out for? - miss lonelyhearts Dear Miss Lonelyhearts, I sense that you have self esteem [...]
Full StoryEVE Game Gods: Council on Stellar Management better than Reading FICky Forums
A Lesson for other MMOs?by Dr. Legion, staff reporter In this very interesting interviewon MMORPG, Petur Oskarrson talks about the EVE Online Council on Stellar Management (CSM) — a group of players elected to represent the players interests with the game company at face to face meetings in Iceland. Petur describes some of the changes [...]
Full StorySecond Life Fanboys Protest Times Haterade
Stop saying bad things about my game or I'll call you names and pout by Pixeleen Mistral, New Media desk The high pitched squeal you hear is the sound of Second Life fanboys writhing in pain as David Rowan at the Times of London dumps a big bucket of icy haterade all over Second Life, [...]
Full StoryEat THIS, Ludologists! EVE Fan Vid Made of Win.
by Urizenus Sklar, from the Narratology Roolz Desk Those of you who don’t track the eggheads on Terra Nova may not be aware that there is a VERY SERIOUS debate between narratologists and ludologists. Ludologists think that MMOs are all about play. Narratologists think that MMOs are about spinning collaborative narratives. Then there are people [...]
Full StoryAll the Cyberlebrities Ask: Uri, Where da Party At?
Photo from Josh Fouts by Pat the Rat, from the Cyberlebrity Watch Desk I recently read a critique of the Herald in which we were taken to task for being self-absorbed self-hyping wankers. I confess, I don't see this at all. Anyways… Joshua Fouts, the Chief Global Strategist for Dancing Ink Productions (hereafter DIP) is [...]
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