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Trouble in Elfville
Girl elf leader turns male — leader’s ex-partner banned for complaining by BB Balderdash, Elf Affairs desk When Armandi Goodliffe was a girl, she partnered with Camo Camus When you think the land of the elves, you think of peaceful and quiet hills and dales, where pixie and faeries dance and the elven make their [...]
Full StoryFormer JLU Member Speaks Out
anti-griefer Justice League Unlimited threatens privacy and act like griefers by Nikola Shirakawa ex-JLU member The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which – Animal Farm Many people on SL have run into this [...]
Full StoryThe 500 Prim Boots
Columbia Journalism Review covers SL footwear fashions Possibly seeking to claim a part of the lucrative Second Life fashion news scene, the July/August issue of the Columbia Journalism Review includes in-depth coverage of virtual footwear – featuring the Herald’s own Walker Spaight, Urizenus Sklar and several other virtual world journalists. Given the CJR’s impending fashion-forward [...]
Full StoryGinko Financial’s AVIX Buyout Blocked
Cash crunch and opaque accounting limits Ginko’s appeal by Jessica Holyoke The SL financial market was roiled today by news that the Ginko Financial Group, owned by Nicholas Portocarrero was attempting to buy a controlling interest in AVIX financials, owned by Investor Allen. After previous reports of Ginko’s inability to cover withdrawals from the “bank”, [...]
Full StoryLove Letters To The Net
by Onder Skall Remember people putting “cyber” in front of everything? Remember articles defining what an “emoticon” was? Suddenly… VERY suddenly… everything changed. That network not only became mainstream, it also fundamentally changed the lives of a lot of people. The isolated had company. The uneducated gained knowledge. The dreamers touched their dreams. The Internet [...]
Full StoryUser-Created Content
Graffiti and Web 2.0 by Onder Skall On my way home there’s this tunnel I pass through. It periodically fills with graffiti and then gets wiped clean. The really good graffiti doesn’t appear here. The good stuff ends up on a wall between two lanes of the highway that few but the most stalwart urban [...]
Full StoryHeartun Breaker Leaving SL Herald
HELP WANTED: metaverse reporter / love&sex&advice columnist by Pixeleen Mistral, managing editrix My new iMojo phone was buzzing insistently where I left it on the granite blocks near the waterfront in Sanchon sim. That whole iPhone thing is so last week’s news now – these days you want to be rocking an iMojo. The iMojo [...]
Full StoryMona Lisae
Fishy man, fishing in troubled waters. By Prokofy Neva, Art Dept. Art — and the figures in and around it — can be inscrutable. In the much-commented thread about the raid in Blister, Dutch amateur artist Lisae Boucher finally provides a link to another SL store where her controversial works are on sale — images [...]
Full StoryLA Times Joins the SL Hater Parade
The Hate Just Keeps on Comin’! It seems like just last month (well, ok, it was last month) that Forbes did its 180 and started hating on Second Life. Now the LA Times joins the hate parade with a story of its own. Herald Summary ™: Businesses came in, saw, and decided it was a [...]
Full StoryHere Comes Second Earth! Or not.
WTF? 120 Servers (480 new sims) per Week? MIT’s Technology Review has a (registration required) disappointingly fanboyish, hyperventilating story about Second Life and the possibility of linking up worlds like Second Life with Google Earth. Oddly, while the article talks about how swell and kewl this would be (and includes interviews with developers who live [...]
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