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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 [...]
Full StoryThe Guardian Covers Virtual Journalists Covering Second Life
I meant to blog this much earlier, but..what can I say… I’m irresponsible. Not so the most rightous Aleks Krotoski, who gives her readers in the UK publication The Guardian a peak into the stories that percolate in those august virtual media outlets, The Second Life Herald and Clickable Culture. In her recent piece, Aleks [...]
Full StoryYour Imagination, but now it’s Activeworld’s: Stagecoach Island Failure has Content Contributors Crying Fowl
Tony Walsh (aka Zero Grace) has a superb article on the failure of the Stage Coach Island Project, that a group of Second Life residents undertook for Well’s Fargo Corp. Not only has Wells Fargo moved the project out of Second Life and into Activeworlds, but it has taken a lot of SL resident work [...]
Full StoryPlay Money No More: Non-Virtual Goods to Sell for Linden Bux
Cutting out the middleman, SLBoutique founder FlipperPA Peregrine announced at Saturday’s Democracy Island event that his virtual commerce site would soon begin accepting Linden dollars in exchange for tangible real-world goods. Read more at the Second Life Future Salon blog where we heard the news. Then call your accountant.
Full StoryPolice Blotter
Don’t look now, but we are running the RSS feed of the Linden Police Blotter so you can keep daily tabs on all the sordid badness in SL (scroll down — it’s in the left column). "Teen accessing main grid – Suspended 14 Days"? WTF, must be turning 18 in two weeks! Par-Tay!
Full Story2005 Avatar of the Year: Prokofy Neva
Avatar of the Year Prokofy Neva (left) with Pathfinder Linden In December 2004, the Herald reported a story that raised few eyebrows at the time, but which would eventually become the single most controversial issue in Second Life during 2005, and would speak to many questions about how governance in cyberspace might shake out. The [...]
Full Story“I’m not a pimp, I’m a club owner”: Interview with Jenna Fairplay
By Dow Jonas In this interview the discreet charm of bourgeois Herald reporter Dow Jonas overcomes the bad blood between Uri and Club maven Jenna Fairplay, and gets her to sit down for an extensive conversation that ranges from her battles with the Lindens, to her troubles with mafias, her issues with Hellraiser Millions, her [...]
Full StoryMTV Hosts Nutty Wacky Avi Contest. Joy.
According to a post by Glitchy Gumshoe on the SL Future Salon site, MTV will be “filming’ an in game fashion shoot, and they are soliciting pics of interesting — nay “craziest looking” avatars. Well now. Zero Grace is decidedly unimpressed by this turn of events, but he is a crotchety old man. We, on [...]
Full StorySecond Life Running on Linux?
Acording to a comment he posted on Boing Boing, this week Cory Linden is going to be at the Chaos Computer ClubCon (ah ok, so now it is upscale and is called the Chaos Communication Congress) in Berlin. Plus he promises to be giving a public demo of the SL client running on Linux. That [...]
Full StoryGood Riddance: SL Says Goodbye to Dwelloper Awards
Uri and Prok do Some Last Minute Christmas Camping by Dow Jonas With the advent of camp chairs in the last month, Robin Linden’s announcement of the end of the Developer Incentive Awards (DIA), or the “Dwelloper Awards,” as they were dubbed, came as no surprise to most of the hundred-odd recipients of the cash [...]
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