Archive for 'Media'

Post Six Grrrl Aeryckah Seifert

The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Aeryckah Seifert! Aeryckah loves decorating her home and playing slingo, and some day hopes to eventually be a model here in SecondLife. Our thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this Post Six Grrrl.

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Party On! The SLH is Turning Two!

Help celebrate at the second birthday party of that most august newspaper of cyberspace, the Second Life Herald! (And Jeff Brown thought we wouldn’t see our second month, tsk tsk.) Hosted by the illustrious _blacklibrary, located in Second Life‘s Furness sim, the Herald birthday party will commence on Saturday, October 22, at noon game-time (that’s [...]

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The Wages of Play, Part II: Social Devolution

Second Life residents attempt to crash the Off the Wagon sim Well, Pat the Rat’s film finally came back from the lab, and except for a few tequila-stained shots, the Herald is happy to present an even more in-depth look at the weekend’s events. From dance contests to game development, conspiracies to goldfish, a good [...]

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The Wages of Play, Part I

Philip Linden expresses shock at finding SL residents almost as s3xxy as he is The virtual world descended on New York City this weekend at the first ever Second Life Community Convention and the third annual State of Play conference — and the key word here is “descended.” Throughout the weekend, primal screams, neanderthal utterances [...]

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Herald Pot Boiler Boils Over, Gossip Columnists Salivate

In the futurtainment blog Hollywood 2020, Joyce Schwarz – a kind of grade B “Pat the Rat” — is blogging the impending arrival of Only a Game, by Ludlow and Wallace, and who can blame her? It promises to crack open the deepest darkest secrets of the metaverse, and expose it for the pixilated Babylon [...]

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Company Boy vs. Slut Boy: Let’s Go to the Video!

A thousand pardons for not having our incriminating photos up yet, but you know… They are on the way. The State of Play III has come and gone, but if you missed it, videos of the session are up here. Naturally, we like the first video/session best, because not only is it on virtual journalism [...]

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Hammie talks to the Metaverse Superior Court

There is a good interview with Hamlet Linden and the two principle judges of the Metaverse Superior Court (formerly the Second Life Superior Court). Among the points they make is that their approach is to develop legal authority in a bottom-up manner — adjudicating cases and gradually developing the trust of virtual citizens. This contrasts [...]

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Post Six Grrrls Stevie Sneerwell and Alicia Spectre

I am happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrls, Stevie Sneerwell and Alicia Spectre! In the Herald’s second “double-feature” Post Six Grrrl edition, we have the two owners of Sugar and Spice Entertainment, who some have called inseparable. Many thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this Post Six [...]

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EXCLUSIVE: “Actual” Reality Invades Virtual World

by Walker Spaight Second Life residents view first images from the “real” world You viewed it here first, folks: The Herald was on hand in Second Life this evening to witness the first live streaming video from a place people have taken to calling “actual” reality or, in some cases, the “real” world. Avatars Hudson [...]

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Rich Content Foundation Finds Riches

A new public advocacy group, this one dedicated to “fostering richness and diversity in content and events,” has hit the Grid, and with initial funding secured, the Foundation for Rich Content will soon seek to share the wealth with “events and projects that enrich the cultural scene of Second Life. “

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