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Happy Second Birthday, Second Life!
W00t! The coolest virtual world you’ve ever been to officially turns two years old today, and the Grid rejoices with a party that will be all about “remembering the past and celebrating the future.” Head over to the intersection of Bethel, Brilliant, Fortuna and Georgean sims at 3pm game-time and don’t be shy about dipping [...]
Full StoryFICtory Dance
In the wake of Prok’s banning from the SL forums, the Feted Inner Core is having a virtual victory dance on the Linden supervised forums. No comment really, just one of those things that make ya go “hmmmm…”.
Full StoryProk/FIC Wars Lead to New Forum Policies
The repercussions of the board war between virtual agitator Prokofy Neva and the Feted Inner Core (the SL denizens who have allegedly found favor with Linden Lab and constitute an in game Aristocracy according to Prok) has led to the announcement of a new policy governing behavior online and in game. Of special note is [...]
Full StoryWrite for the Second Life Herald! – Please!
The Second Life Herald needs writers! With the fast pace of news developing on the Grid, Second Life’s most widely read news source is looking to expand its coverage by hiring one or two reporters and a number of freelancers (and possibly an editor) to cover in-world events, economics, sights, sounds and even scandals. If [...]
Full StoryHerald Publishing Announces Blockbuster Book Deal
Press ReleaseMedia Contact: Pat the Rat, Vice President for CorporateCommunications, Herald Enterprises Herald editors Urizenus Sklar and Walker Spaight announced today that they have inked a blockbuster book deal with O’Reilly Publishing to co-author a volume on the life and times of Herald founder Urizenus Sklar and his misadventures in The Sims Online, as well [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Kitty Zamboni
We at the Herald are happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Kitty Zamboni! Kitty is a not only a lovely model for talented photographers, but she is also a DJ and dancer who can be seen and heard in SecondLife. Thanks to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these wonderful [...]
Full StoryRevenge of the FIBB, or a Promise Fulfilled?
by Walker Spaight A Linden-sponsored public meeting will be held this afternoon at 3pm game-time to discuss “how to resolve transactional disputes in a fair manner as well as the possibility of an in-world ‘Better Business Bureau’.” But more than one major SL landowner is concerned that the purported FIC may hijack any such body, [...]
Full StoryBack to the Future Salon
The line-up for the next SL Future Salon has been announced, and it features media empire builder Urizenus Sklar (semi-retired publisher of the Second Life Herald) and up and coming cyberlebrities Amanda Congdon, vlog anchor of Rocketboom, video blogger, and actress, and Keith Halper, CEO, Kuma Reality Games, makers of KumaWar. Date is June 30, [...]
Full StoryWho is that guy?
This guy Mark Wallace is all over the NY Times, these days, most recently giving a story about big time earners and real estate moguls in Second Life. The article is The Game Is Virtual. The Profit Is Real, and our friend Anshe and other big earners in SL figure in a major way. Again, [...]
Full StoryAnother Meeting. Another Post-Literate Future.
Yesterday I attended a meeting of the SL Future Salon, organized by Jeffrey Paffendorf (SNOOPYbrown Zamboni ) of the Acceleration Studies Foundation. The idea of the SL Future Salon is to bring clever futurists (and presentists?) together in SL to discuss the shape of things to come. This round the speakers were Betsy Book (Skyllar [...]
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