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Post Six Grrrl Rebel Hope
The Herald is happy to introduce this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Rebel Hope! Rebel is a noted clothier in SecondLife, who together with her husband, RH Engel, runs RH Designs! Thanks to Daphne Molinari, creator of Daphne’s Delights, for this week’s Grrrl.
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 StoryInterview: The Playboy of the Online World
by Jeannedellalune Prudhomme, Special to the SL Herald “MrC” (right) tells all. There’s more to cybersex than poseballs, according to one of SL’s more accomplished Don Juans. The right word at the right moment will go much further to guarantee a satisfied partner than relying on a TS3 or Resolution sexball to do the job, [...]
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 StoryPost Six Grrrl(s) Revisited: Queenie Extraordinaire and Daphne Molinari
For this week’s Post Six Grrrl feature, I’m very pleased to present to you a Post Six Grrrls Revisited feature, focusing on Queenie Extraordinare and Daphne Molinari! Both Queenie and Daphne were Post Six Grrrls back when Marilyn Murphy was doing the feature for the Herald (click on their names to see how they used [...]
Full StoryRevisiting Stagecoach Island
paulie Femto created a forum thread yesterday discussing Wells Fargo’s Stagecoach Island project that began using a version of the SecondLife viewer, and has since migrated to ActiveWorlds. As a former ActiveWorlds user myself (I played during the beta period in mid-to-late 1996 and again from 2000 til 2005-ish), the move interested and shocked me [...]
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 [...]
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