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Confessions of a Gorean Slave, Part 2
In our last installment, humdog took us from her introduction to Gor to her collaring. In part two, she talks in more detail about her Master, why she was so taken with him, and the psychological devices he uses to control her. –Uri Diary of a Goran Slave, Part 2 by Humdog A kol’lar is [...]
Full StoryIn Which I Happen to Invent Web 3-point-D
Perhaps because I feel for the most part that “Web 2.0” is just a fancy term for the march of Web-related progress, I don’t use the phrase all that much. But its particular rhythm has stuck in my brain, and now that we’ve begun talking about places like Second Life as part of a possible [...]
Full StoryFirst Cast of SecondCast Catches a Few FIC
SL resident Johnny Ming’s new Second Life podcast site, SecondCast.com, went “live” today with a podcast featuring four of Second Life’s famous Feted Inner Core — including yours truly, for some reason.
Full StoryIt All Happened at the Happening
Make magazine’s Phillip Torrone prepares to probe the virtual world I was skeptical about it when I first heard the description, but Second Life did indeed meet and mingle with the massively multiplayer offline universe often known as First Life last night. It all happened at The Happening, “an extraordinary audio/visual benefit experience” that went [...]
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New SL Developers Circle Develops — Residents Cry FIC
by Walker Spaight Seventeen Second Life content-creators met with Linden Lab evangelist Reuben Linden yesterday in an attempt to hash out some of the issues facing in-world developers, and to create some kind of shared resource for people who derive their income from SL activities. But when organizer Hiro Pendragon attempted to go public with [...]
Full StorySecondLife Game Developers’ Expo: Participants Chosen
As Hamlet Linden posted within the past hour, the participants of this year’s SecondLife Game Developers’ Expo have now been chosen based on the number of nominations they received on the forums. The Expo, which unlike years past will not feature a professional game developer coming in to evaluate the games and help choose the [...]
Full StoryCanadian ‘Casters Corner Cory O.
Canadian podcast site Thunderbird Six has sat down Linden Lab veep of development Cory Ondrejka (that’s Cory Linden to you) for a long interview now posted to their site (see episode #23 for immediate listening). Among other things, Cory notes that more than 130,000 people have signed up to SL at one time or another, [...]
Full StoryA Putsch in Neualtenburg?
Ulrika’s Office, as she left it. This news is a bit old, but well worth pondering. Ulrika Zugzwang, the driving force behind Second Life’s virtual socialist micro-state, Neualtenburg, has left the project and Second Life. Ulrika claims personal reaons, but coming on the heels of a revolt in the Party that spilled into the forums, [...]
Full StoryEnough about You, Let’s Talk about Me!
TSO refugees may remember Realsimsonline.com, which was a site that allowed TSO denizens to post their real life information (now known as first life information). Although supposedly banned by EA, the site was very popular, and there were thousands of users that posted their information there. Now Second Life has a similar option — www.sl.me.com [...]
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