Archive for 'Op/Ed'

A Secret Garden in Second Life

Why is adding a memorial to Linden Memorial Park so hard? by suzy Honi One of the greatest secrets of Second Life is a huge region owned by the Linden’s but open to everyone. The land is beautifully landscaped and formed with beaches, flowers, woods and streams. It is one of the most beautiful open [...]

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Linden, do not harm

How Linden Lab’s good intentions turn into public wrath by Mony Markova How is it that good ideas turn into complicated and alienating actions that keep Second Life client base perplexed? To find out, a brave group of concerned citizens managed to place a bug into one of the many LL meetings, and this is how [...]

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Op/Ed: You’ve Lost That Web 2.0 Feeling

Capturing the analog human spirit in a soulless digital environment by Tizzers Foxchase In 2006, Time Magazine named You the Person of the year. With user-generated content dominating over half of all web traffic, there is no doubt that the antiquated, unidirectional methods of media delivery are giving way to the notion that we are [...]

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Linden Lab Has No Apparent Business Plan

by Ron T Blechner (Hiro Pendragon on SL) How does Linden Lab, creators of the most popular non-game virtual world, Second Life, make their money? Easy: land and a cut of the marketplace. How are they going to ensure that they continue to have this revenue stream? Easy: Stick their fingers in their ears and [...]

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Op/Ed: Our Responsibilities As Avatars

A Six Part Manifesto To Save Second Life by JS Uralia The Linden Lab economy is collapsing, with the market value of Second Life’s stock down over 35% since May, according to SharesPost. If we avatars are to survive, we must exercise good citizenship and socially responsible corrective action to remedy this situation at once, [...]

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Nelson Jenkins: Why Would Anyone Trust These Emerald Guys?

[Nelson Jenkins has been awarded the “commie” or comment-of-the-week award for this detailed breakdown of the Modular Systems abuses. The award winning comment is reproduced below.] @ Jocelyn Pawpad I’m going to go ahead and cross-post this, just in case you didn’t get the memo. Why anyone would continue to trust these folks will remain [...]

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It Has To Be Said: No Men Allowed

I have been walking around a few different sims looking for feminist leaning cafes and the like.  When looking for a feminist cafe, more often than not I run into clubs that says in big, huge letters "No Men." And really, those signs are saying "no male typists", not, "no male avatars".  Now obviously, this [...]

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Op/Ed: The Loss of Civility

by FoxM Ember Is it art that imitates life, or is the other way around? I forget, and perhaps with today’s technology they have become interchangeable.  At the risk of exposing my “old fashion,” I believe we have now become fully immersed in a self-created culture of declining morality and non-existent shared values.  We live [...]

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Op/Ed: The First-Hour Experience Before The First Hour

by Gwyneth Llewelyn Unconfirmed rumours claim that Mark Kingdon’s "stepping down" might have been caused by a failure to address the goals he had set for himself and for Linden Lab in two years. Of course we don’t know all the goals, but, besides the creation Enterprise division, we know of two others: introducing a [...]

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Op/Ed: How Supply Linden Games The L$ Currency Exchange

by IntLibber Brautigan Under a normal market, where there is a healthy flow of cash in and out of a given economy, those operating currency exchanges make significant profits in ways most people do not realize. With the LindeX, for example, the spread, i.e. the distance between the lowest sell price vs the highest buy [...]

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