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Have the Lindens Stopped Talking?
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk A new resident by the name of Gargling Ginsburg asks about the features voting system, on the now-restricted official LL forums: “I noticed that features were acknowledged and commented on fairly frequently until 2006-08-24. Since then, not a single acknowledgement or comment. That’s over 2 months ago!” he exclaims. [...]
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By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Little children like these went to sleep hungry last night in Darfur. Forced to cut rations due to a shortfall of donations from an indifferent world, distraught relief workers had to turn them away. It wasn’t for lack of awareness by millions of people who took part in what [...]
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By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Flak-Catching Time and date stamp on the press release I received from Hank Hoodoo in Counting Sheep, the market messaging group within SL run by the Electric Sheep Company: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:14:08 -0700 (PDT)We’re told to show up between 4 and 8 SLT on Thursday and Friday, October [...]
Full StorySL on the road to YosemiteLand?
First Person: Second Life by Fiend Ludwig The metaverse meets Yosemite How do residents describe Second Life to friends and family? I recently asked a random cross-section of SL citizens. Chaylon Voss said, “I tell them it’s something I enjoy and there are lots of opportunities here too, to make money, etc., if you seek [...]
Full StorySlashdot Joins Backlash Against Linden Kool-Aid
While the Mainstream Meadia (MSM) continues to uncritically slurp down the Linden Kool-Aid, people with some experience in online games and virtual communities continue to say Whoa Nellie! We’ve reported the reservations by Zero Grace and Matt Mihaley, but there is also a tough tough comment thread over on Terra Nova in which luminaries like [...]
Full StoryLL Luvs LEWIS Spinmeisters
Morgan “LEWIS” McLintic to cover RL with spinning ad-cubes? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Morgan McLintic is loved Feeling the need for perhaps just a wee bit more soft and fluffy press coverage, Linden Lab recently sent some love to Morgan McLintic of the LEWIS public relations firm – Mr. McLintic is leading a [...]
Full StoryThree Years of the Herald! Come Celebrate, October 26.
You love it, you hate it, you wrap your pixelated fish in it, but there’s just no avoiding the Second Life Herald. Though things looked rocky a while back, the Herald has soldiered on, revivified by the bloodhound instincts of new Herald managing editor Pixeleen Mistral, and recently re-joined by Herald founder Urizenus Sklar. Now [...]
Full StoryNY Times Joins Chorus of Linden Fluffers
In yet another nauseating puff piece in a string of nauseating puff pieces about Second Life, The New York Times has offered a story with little depth of analysis, but some nice pictures of Philip and Prok. Summing up the story, the content seems to be this: “Gosh golly, companies that I have heard of [...]
Full StoryYale Daily News blasts SL: “Second Life is a nerdy, Jolt-fueled pastime for social cripples and perverts”
In a blistering assessment of his first visit to Second Life, Micheal Seringhaus of the Yale Daily News cuts through the Reuters fluff and offers that the reality is rather different than the “sober assesments” given by mainstream media. I was mostly ignored, occasionally propositioned for text-based sex and wholly unable to conduct business. I [...]
Full StoryThe Register blasts C|Net’s Terdiman for being Linden Fluffer
The Herald has long appreciated the fine work of Daniel Terdiman for Wired News and now C|Net (not least his reporting on the Alphaville elections and the Roomba Frogger game instantiation event), but today he has come under fire from Ashlee Vance at The Register. According to Vance, Terdiman’s recent “breathless” coverage of Second Life, [...]
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