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SL Population Crash Continues
How can player concurrency sink to 2008 levels despite 10,000+ new accounts per day? According to Tateru Nino’s SL statistics charts, the last 12 months have seen a 12% drop in concurrent online Second Life players, with concurrency levels falling to July of 2008 levels. Sadly, there is no sign of a turnaround in sight. [...]
Full StorySLCC 2011 — Lab Prepares For Repeat Resident Chalk Assault?
Will the news that the 2011 Second Life Community Convention is to be held in San Francisco sometime in August lead to a run on water, buckets, brushes and other cleaning supplies as Linden Lab shores up it’s defenses against a shrinking customer base? The Second Life mainland in real life – SLCC 2009 The [...]
Full StoryDrama Philter — Post 6 Grrrrrl
[I met Drama Philter a couple of years ago and have been enchanted ever since. I was thrilled to bump into her again the other day, and even more thrilled when she finally agreed to pose for Post 6. She is one of the most genuinely funny people I have ever met, and certainly one [...]
Full StoryCould Sims 2 Baby BBQ Seriously Help SL Survive?
Or will Second Life users’ hate and fear of change destroy the metavese? by Omelet ex-Linden, concerned shareholder Recently I was talking with my last two inside-the-Lab contacts – Sensipoo and Hubris Linden – about Second Life’s trajectory, which inevitably ends in oblivion. As usual, Sensipoo Linden broke into tears at the thought of criticism [...]
Full StoryRobbie Mellow — Post 6 Model
[Regular Post 6 followers know that I try to feature as many of the myriad SL communities as possible, so when I was contacted by a reader who said I had never featured a transvestite and that she happened to have a "pet" who would love to pose, I jumped at the chance and was [...]
Full StoryFayette Aeon — Post 6 Grrrrrl
My better half was out shopping one day and met Fayette Aeon when she noticed that they were both doing the same circuit of stores. The two hit it off, and with some cajoling, Fayette agreed to pose for Post 6. It is an honor to introduce the lovely and talented Fayette Aeon, our friend [...]
Full StoryMonkey Business and a Hot Date
Breedable-Monkey Army in the Works by Pappy Enoch, Hillbilly Go-rilla Ol’ Hamlet Au, over there at New Fake World Notes, am all a-flutter about sum’fin called Zooby Breedable Monkeys. From the photygraph I done run, you can see, plain as the nose on the side o’ my head, that them monkeys am born as naughty [...]
Full StoryAll Things Sheeny: Reading Charlie Sheen to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
by Peter Ludlow and Charles Parsons* In a recently published book, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly argue that the crisis of our current age stems from the indecision and resulting nihilism that come from our having lost the system of values provided by monotheism. In the Christian age our correct course of action in all [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Time to Outsource SL Support to India and Botswana?
How Linden Lab can benefit by offshoring labor — and why they should. by Kelvin R. Throop, concerned resident A while back, I tried to teleport to my office in Second Life. However, for some reason, I couldn’t teleport there, and I landed in the sim next door. My office sim hadn’t crashed, and I [...]
Full StoryzFire Xue and Redzone Collide with Banhammer
Tuesday evening Soft Linden ventured in-world to delete zFire Xue’s merchandise after banning Mr. Xue from Second Life. Word spread quickly and a crowd of zf Redzone critics gathered at the empty Mad Sci City Shopping Mall to witness the historic event. When I visited, the sim had reached its capacity – 40 avatars slowly [...]
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