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SLebrities To Throng Sinister’s Club – Post 6 Party January 9
by Timothy Morpork This Sunday, January 9, at 11:00am SLT, Post 6 will host a “Welcome to 2011” party at Sinister’s Club in Idia. Slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Idia/119/41/111/ Senban Babii dances to DJ Someone Sinister Post 6, the longtime Alphaville Herald feature, has hosted two parties previously, both were very well attended by gorgeous Post 6 Models, [...]
Full StoryGeneration W: WikiLeaks Ignites a New Generation of Hacktivists
While the traditional media and the United States government continue to fixate on the individual Julian Assange, a not so subtle cultural shift is taking root worldwide: Hacktivist culture is rapidly morphing from a small underground subculture into mainstream culture for a younger generation, not just in the United States, but worldwide. Julian Assange and [...]
Full StoryThe Great Rod Humble Twitter Metagame
A furry-led cargo cult on Twitter hopes to entice silent Second Life CEO into community dialog A new Twitter-based Second Life metagame raises interesting questions about online identity, social media, and just how unprepared Linden Lab leadership was for the curiously-timed December 23rd announcement of Rod Humble as new CEO. Given the level of investment [...]
Full StoryJoe Linden: Game Over – EA’s Rod Humble: Game On
ex-Electronic Arts VP levels up to revolving door Linden CEO position in January Management shakeups continue at Linden Lab as Joe Linden (a.k.a. Joe Miller) – VP for Technology and Platform Development at Linden Lab – disappeared from the Lab’s executive management team web page, and no longer appears in the Second Life avatar search. [...]
Full StoryProkofy Neva vs. Robert Wright – The Video
Conspiracy theorist denies hearing voices in her head Over the years, many have wondered if the rhetorical excesses of Second Life resident Prokofy Neva might be the result of an overly immersive approach to online roleplay. Sadly, this does not appear to be the case, as Catherine Fitzpatrick (the real life typist for Second Life’s [...]
Full StoryBotCars – A Deadly Threat To Second Life Pedestrians
Herald reporter seriously injured after driverless car hit and run by Oswald Denimore Corsica Mainland Continent – Alphaville Herald reporter Millennium Sands was almost killed yesterday in an accident when she tried to cross a street on foot. "Mainland highways are usually the most deserted places you can find in Second Life, so I was [...]
Full StoryLess is More – Don’t be THAT Guy!
Trim your rendering cost — get more of SL greatest events by Mony Markova This article has to be more useful for the less experienced avatar that to the regular Alphaville Herald reader, but perhaps you can direct it to your friends; yes those pesky guys that refuse to trim down their Avatar [...]
Full StorySecond Life Winterfest and Cheap Shopping
by Justine Babii After freakishly early and severe winter storms buried many of our European friends and icy weather has crept into places in North America not used to such things, why not also celebrate the cold here in the virtual world? The annual Second Life WinterFest kicks off this Friday, December 10, and runs [...]
Full StorySecond Life’s New Naming Policy
What’s In a Name? by Justine Babii Back in August, when the rumors of a change in the naming system were first starting to ripple around the metaverse, it didn’t occur to me that Second Life would be doing away with surnames. Protagonist, Murphy, Money, Serpentine and all of the other original 2003 names have [...]
Full StoryHazy Memories from Style Street
by Justine Babii Part the First: Or, How I Name-Drop Myself Back into Second Life The other day I was revisiting Second Life for the first time in ages, and I had the wonderful opportunity to spend time with Carol Pixelmaid, the vivacious spouse of your own Photographer-in-Residence, Timothy Morpork. We were talking about the [...]
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