Archive for 'Announcements'

Breaking: The Herald is Back!

After a long hiatus, the deciders at The Alphaville Herald have opted to resume publication of the Internet’s most fairly unbalanced © news source. Netizens will of course rejoice at this news, but some, lost in their 2016 cynicism might ask “why?” The Herald, of course began as the Toto-too of virtual worlds, pulling back [...]

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Alphaville Herald Celebrates 8 Years on October 6!

After months of frantic preparations, the mushroom cave in Shivar is ready for an historic moment – the 8th birthday party celebration of the most vital, trustworthy, erudite, and incisive newspaper in the metaverse – the Alphaville Herald.  Herald founder Urizenus Sklar and managing editrix Pixeleen Mistral invite our readers to join us as we [...]

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SLCC 2011: Mesh Hair Net Shortages May Threaten Convention

Pixeleen Mistral’s typist to speak at SLCC identity and privacy session Will Linden staff don celebratory mesh hair nets at the Second Life Community Conference to mark the long awaited release of mesh object support for the prim-based virtual world? SL content creators and certain OEM suppliers hope so, and the chances of sighting Linden staff with [...]

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Informations : Mutual aid Fair / Salon de l’entraide

Salon de l’entraide sur France3D Lalabel Demina — CEO Evenementia Principe : Réunir en un lieu, le temps d’une semaine, un maximum de structures d’entraide irl ou sl (associations ou autre) qui sont installés sur SecondLife. Ces structures peuvent être française ou étrangère. Chacune de ces structures auront le droit à un stand d’exposition de [...]

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SLebrities To Throng Sinister’s Club – Post 6 Party January 9

by Timothy Morpork This Sunday, January 9, at 11:00am SLT, Post 6 will host a “Welcome to 2011” party at Sinister’s Club in Idia. Slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Idia/119/41/111/ Senban Babii dances to DJ Someone Sinister Post 6, the longtime Alphaville Herald feature, has hosted two parties previously, both were very well attended by gorgeous Post 6 Models, [...]

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The Hall of Mirrors and The Real World

A note from the Alphaville Herald Editors Since the Alphaville Herald’s inception in 2003, we have covered the news of online worlds and societies like no one else. You’ve enjoyed tales of griefers, scammers, virtual mafias, virtual paramilitary organizations, epic trolls, perverts, furries, babyfurs, baby unicorns, goreans, elves, online Nazis, anti-Nazis, virtual communists, dirty dealing [...]

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Metaverse Meetup – Long Beach July 30 – 31

  Future of Metaverse be decided around a hookah on Queen Mary?   The decks of the Queen Mary will echo at the end of July with the sound of open source techno-communists in jackboots, academics in clogs, birkenstock and flip-flop clad developers, and more than a few virtual world entrepreneurs sporting the sort of [...]

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SHOCK! Defne Demar Joins Herald Staff – Instantly Outs Herself!!!

by Idoru Wellman, staff writer In a press release today, Pixeleen Mistral and Urizenus Sklar announced Defne Demar has joined the Herald staff. Ms. Demar ended minutes of speculation by admitting her real life typist is none other than Burcu S. Bakioglu – a noted new media scholar who authored Spectacular Interventions of Second Life: [...]

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Coverage of Second Life Suspended for 48 Hours

Metaplace a mostly harmless substitute The Herald has joined http://theartistsvoice.org/ in an almost entirely symbolic SL content creator sympathy strike November 4th and 5th and 6th.  While taking a break in tracking the transition of Second Life into Suit Life, we will look into the Metaplace fashion, party, and e-dating scene. Naked Post 6 avatars, [...]

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Party With the Post 6 Grrrls, Guys, Furries, and Robots

by Chatterbox Telltale, society reporter The metaverse glitterati will be out in force – and at a euro-friendly time – during the second open-to-the-public Post 6 reunion bash – so brace yourselves for the party this Saturday, October10, from 11am to 3pm SLT.  Post 6 alum SammyBarrett will DJ and the festivities will be held [...]

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