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Op/Ed: What to do about Griefers?
Hit them where it hurts – right in the computer by Danielle Anders, frustrated resident Everywhere I turn lately, griefing is on the rise. This could be solely a reporting bias – more people means more griefing targets and more griefing reports. But let’s take a look at the problem a little more realistically. The [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: LL Selling Residents’ Souls To Data Miners?
ANYTHING goes in Linden Lab’s headlong drive to get the corporates on board by Inigo Chamerberlin Linden Lab may have found a way of dangling a tasty carrot in front of the corporates – a way of connecting a Second Life resident identity with a RL identity – and this may explain the Linden’s fascination [...]
Full StorySL Relationship Ethics – Anonymity, Timezones, & Spybots
Ethics Roundtable Topic One by Victorria Paine Following the Op/Ed I wrote last week about appropriate ethics in our virtual environment, this is the first of an occasional series of articles focusing on one specific ethical issue at a time – something that I hope will allow for more in-depth discussion of each topic. I’ve [...]
Full StorySecond Life as Temporary Autonomous Zone
By Urizenus Sklar Coming on the heels of the Linden’s recent excessively broad and vague definition of the “broadly offensive”, the hand wringing about the Leather and Lace Ball at the Second Life Community Convention got me thinking about Hakim Bey’s fringe culture classic, Temporary Autonomous Zones. Bey’s headline idea was how Temporary Autonomous Zones [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Romance me, damn it!
By Linda Loveless I’ll come right out and say it; I’m tired of men always gaming for my crotch! I used to give them the benefit of the doubt — giving them first, second, and third chances to show they were after something more. I *still* give them too many chances… my real life boyfriend [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Linden Lab’s Weasel Worded Quasi-Assurances
Concierge customers: boycott Linden Lab’s ‘test’ of the Age Verification system by Inigo Chamerberlin Linden Lab and Aristotle’s Integrity – trustworthy Earlier today I received an eMail from Linden Lab – the text is reproduced below the fold. After reading the eMail all I could say was – excuse me? Am I missing something here? [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Second Life Ethics
Gambling, sex, gender-bending, financial fraud: does real life morality apply in SL? by Victorria Paine A recurring theme in debates between SL’s denizens about any number of the “hot topics” that divide the community (gambling, sex, gender-bending, financial fraud, you name it) is a fundamental disagreement about what “rules” should apply to any of these [...]
Full StorySecond Life Corporate Hype Bubble Deflates – Now What?
Riding a DotCom non-strategy into the ground? by Inigo Chamerberlin Recent articles have focused on various issues affecting Second Life of late. But they have simply reported issues and, sometimes, commented on the issues as isolated events. I think it’s about time the causes were discussed, the likely outcomes and potential future moves. Most of [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: The Avatar’s Dilemma – Trust
What do unconscionable contract provisions say about contract creators? by Jessica Holyoke Residents are talking about trust more on the grid. And that trust expresses itself in many forms. Some of the trust deals with the SL financial sector. In a world of anonymous avatars and few accountants, it is hard to know what to [...]
Full StoryThe Linden Business Plan?: Pwning the Metaverse the Chef Cantu Way
by Urizenus Sklar, food critic Chef Cantu at Work. Since I am the ultimate metaverse insider with a profound grasp of new media and the economics thereof, it is natural that when Media Playahs and Venture Capital Guys and Grrls meet me they want the 411 on Second Life. “Uri”, they ask me “exactly what [...]
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