Archive for 'Announcements'

Art in Areumdeuli

A new art gallery opens tomorrow night in Second Life’s Areumdeuli sim. The Phoenicia Gallery and Studio, located in the heart of Areumdeuli, will be run by colleagues Viola Bentham and Victor Newchurch, and will feature “original works by talented artists from SL and RL.” For its opening reception, kicking off on Friday at 6:00pm [...]

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The Federation of Hamlet Linden

Hamlet Linden wraps up his tenure tomorrow as Linden Lab’s in-house blogger on all things Second Life, and has already found a new home. As Hamlet announced today, he’ll be joining Federated Media Publishing Inc., home network of such touchstone blogs as BoingBoing and Metafilter, where he’ll presumably keep on doing what he’s been doing [...]

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There She Goes

It happens to the best of us: the lure of a steady paycheck overcomes the strong desire to sit at a desk in our apartments all day staring into a computer screen (not surprisingly). So it is that Terra Nova‘s Betsy Book has been snapped up by the virtual world of There.com, which bills itself [...]

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Tonight: Machinimists Tinker in SL

Well, it won’t be Cannes, but tonight will see BuhBuhCuh Fairchild hosting a Second Life machinima festival featuring five films created by residents within the world. The films are a mix of genres, from the narrative to educational travelogues/ (and hopefully at least one with guns). Admission’s free, and the event starts at 7pm Linden [...]

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Real-World Music Festival to Fund SL Events

The Foundation For Rich Content — which we covered when it started up last year — is now inviting Second Life users to an Alabama of the mind. The FFRC, which provides private grants to SL residents to help fund “events and projects that enrich the cultural scene of Second Life,” recently teamed up with [...]

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Urizenus Announces Retirement

Famed cyberjournalist and virtual media mogul, Urizenus Sklar, announced his retirement today, shortly after a hunting trip with Dick Cheney and executives from Haliburton and IGE. In a statement released by the Herald Offices, Urizenus (Uri to his multitudinous friends) announced that he would be turning the Herald over to his trusted Editorial Director, Walker [...]

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Kremlindens Plan Mass Weddings for St. Valentine’s Day

by Pat the Rat Following in the footsteps of many totalitarians and cult leaders throughout the ages like the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Kremlindenlab has announced that on Valentine’s Day, it will hold a mass wedding. The bubbling, irrepressible Bub Linden will be on hand to perform the staggering, sim-lagging event. In a Linden forums [...]

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Sowing the Seed

Though its beta test has only just started, the new MMO Seed is already getting the usual breathless attention from virtual world fansites and other online communities. The latest Seed news comes from online gaming and music radio station Split Infinity Radio, which is advertising an upcoming interview with Runestone CEO Lars Kroll, the man [...]

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BUY BUY BUY!!! Uber-Authors’ Doomsday Book Debuts on Amazon.com

Woot! If you didn’t believe it before, now you can actually feast your eyes: The Doomsday book recently penned by uber-authors Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace in a flurry of champagne, clattering typewriter keys and cigar smoke is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. For those who aren’t already aware, the book recounts the adventures [...]

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News of the World News: Castronova Takes Virtual Commerce to the National Airwaves

Virtual Economist Edward Castronova — author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games as well as many engaging Terra Nova blog posts — hits the national airwaves this evening during a segment about virtual commerce to air on ABC World News Tonight. Check your local listings for time and channel, but don’t [...]

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