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Stratics comes to SecondLife
Yes, Stratics as finally "discovered" SecondLife. According to a forum posting by the resident known as Trenton Campbell (Teresk of the Stratics staff, apprently), they are in the final stages of developing a SecondLife portal, and apparently are in need of "news reporters, content editors, forum moderators, etc." He then showed his naivety by comparing [...]
Full StoryIs LL Stealing U2′s IP??
Though they’ve been around for just about a year now, the first I heard of the musical group currently known as U2 in SL was a few weeks back, when virtual photojournalist Alex Fitzsimmons sent along some shots (which I’ll be able to add to this post as soon as I am not in an [...]
Full StorySL Population Mostly FIC, Figures Show
Clickable Culture’s Tony Walsh brings us new information on Second Life’s population and demographics, courtesy of Philip and Cory Linden and the remarks they’ve been making lately at events like eTech. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the figures reveal that the vast majority of Second Life residents may be members of the dreaded Feted Inner Core!
Full StoryLindens Shoot for Blockbuster with Machinima Film
by Dow Jonas Forget the Oscars: blockbuster moviemaking is coming to Second Life in the form of a machinima movie produced in SL by Eric Linden and Bedazzled Studios, a group of SL’s top architects and content creators who have designed and built an elaborate stage set for the project. Titled “Silver Bells and Golden [...]
Full StoryThe 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 [...]
Full StorySecondLife Reaches 150,000 Accounts
Late Sunday, SecondLife finally reached the mark of having 150,000 residents, no, paying accounts, wait, no, active accounts, hmmm, accounts – 50,000 residents and their 100,000 alts would perhaps be closer to the actual count. The number, as shown on the SecondLife website, is updated daily, and jumped from 149,505 to 150,107 at its update [...]
Full StoryAnimate Yourself
Phillip Torrone, the Herald’s favorite nutjob, sends news that should have Second Life avatars dancing in the streets — no matter what dance step they prefer. As Torrone reports on the Make Magazine blog, there’s now a free avatar animation application, known as Avimator, that will allow anyone to create their own custom animations without [...]
Full StorySecondCast, Round Two
The SecondCast crew gathered again a few nights ago to talk past each other, courtesy of the talented Johnny Ming. I call him talented because he manages to edit down our unabbreviated gumflapping into something at least halfway intelligible each time we show up. In Round Two, Aimee, Cristiano, Lordfly, Johnny and myself are joined [...]
Full StoryNewsflash: Group Limit Increase Forthcoming
The Herald has been informed by one of our many anonymous sources that Robin Linden let it slip earlier this week at a meeting of SecondLife residents that in the next update, the group limit would increase. The update, planned for this upcoming Wednesday, has had a "changes" list posted, but it didn’t include this [...]
Full StoryFICkle Forum ResMods: Part II
As I posted earlier, there was an ignored thread in the general forum posted about this evening’s Machinima festival, encouraging people to attend. An hour after the story was posted here on the Herald, Jeska Linden herself moved the thread to the proper forum. Thank you, Jeska. In the issue of balance, though, I find [...]
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