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Op/Ed: Herald Condemns Wei’s Stance on Prim Babies
Candidate Romana Wei: Put the Prim Babies to Work Several Days ago, the Herald reported the efforts of Mrs. President Chomsky in her crusade against blingtard moms who leave their prim babies at home while they go ho-ing in Second Life sex clubs. The Herald applauds Mrs. President in this endeavor, and we must also [...]
Full StoryScandal! Prim Babies Abandoned by Blingtard Moms
Mrs. President Chomsky Calls for Better Mommy Bureau Longtime Herald readers will recall Mrs. President Chomsky from her crusades against pet culling back in The Sims Online. She continues to be an active force online, having founded a new civic organization: Concerned Understanding Mothers Striving To Achieve Improved Net Neighborhoods. Its mission? Bring some shred [...]
Full StoryLindens Name New Sim after African Goddess of Lag
“she slows down the day and night, and everything around here happens in a time outside of time” Special to the Herald by Economic Mip As I was cruising the new continent, I had the misfortune of running across a sim named “Mbokomu” which certainly brought back memories. According to several African tribes, Mbokomu was [...]
Full StoryDesperately Seeking Family: Ageplay Adoption Agencies in Second Life
by Muffin K. Smith Jaelle Akula of New World Adoption Ageplay in Second Life has received a lot of media attention ever since early March, when Linden Labs distributed notecards to places that cater to people who seek sex with child avatars. The wording of this notecard, as reported in the Herald, includes the line [...]
Full Storyupdated: We didn’t Want You to Know This, But Agitators Will Be Banned
Op/Ed by Urizenus Sklar Most people in the Second Life infosphere have heard that SL agitator and SL Herald contributor Prokofy Neva has been banned from the Second Life Community Convention in Chicago. The exchanges between Prok and the FIC have been pretty off the hook (on both sides), so we can understand why some [...]
Full StorySL Herald Sold to Aimee Weber Studios
by new Herald Reporter, Tateru Ninu Ms. Weber establishes new Herald Editorial Policy. Urizenus Sklar and Walker Spaight today announced the sale of the Second Life Herald, its intellectual property and in game assets to Aimee Weber Studios in exchange for $50,000 US. The deal, apparently struck at the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference, will certainly [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worlds 2007, Report #5: Venture Capital and The New School of Athens
by Urizenus Sklar As I reported Wednesday, much of the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference reeked of the anxiety of marketing guys and gals trying to catch up with the next wave. The fear was palpable. Why else would those people be sitting in that auditorium taking notes like they were Gorean slaves pressed into service [...]
Full StoryHerald Writers Pwn Nerd of the Week
The long awaited episode #2 of Nerd of the Week is out (or has been for weeks, does it matter?), and Herald staffers figure heavily in the cutting edge of nerddom. In particular, we get more than enough words or wisdom from Editorial Director Walker Spaight (aka Mark Wallace) and Prokofy Neva. And did Prok [...]
Full StorySecond Life Back Stories: The City of Lost Angels
[All the fanfare about Second Life and virtual worlds more generally has to do with the builds and the things you can capture with Fraps and screenshots. But in my view that isn't where the action is. The builds and textures and skins and clothes are just eye candy designed to facilitate the creation of [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worlds, Report No. 3: Half Time Score: There, 10; SL 3
Well, alright, maybe it’s 6-4, as one MTV guy conceded. The ad people in the room, the suits, respond to control. And Viacom/MTV/There offer them control. There won’t be any “flying objects,” as Colin Parris, the IBM VP, delicately called the Anshe Chung flying penises problem. He’s staying with SL because it’s on balance a [...]
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