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Astrin Few’s Open Letter: Fix SL or I’m Out
An Open Letter to Second Life ResidentsAstrin Few, SL MusicianPosted on blog.slmusic.org , March 8, 2007(reprinteded here at the request of Astrin Few) As I approach my fourth year in Second Life, I’ve reached a decision point regarding my future participation in SL. After spending countless hours performing, helping organize RL events, helping new musicians [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: The New Priests
by Fiend Ludwig Last night I was chatting with Pix about the furor over Tenshi Vielle’s article. I asked her why she published it, because surely she must have foreseen the – more violent than average – storm the article would stir up. Pix replied, “Do you understand the Magic Circle concept – that when [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: RL/SL Fashion Faux Pas
Why is Sabrina Doolittle’s RL typist is rocking a faded red shirt and a drooling dog in print? by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista Dear Second Lifers, I have a rant to make. Besides my intolerance for Linden Lifestyle’s Miss Sabrina Doolittle and her “never do wrong” attitude, her “fashion princess” facade, herein lies the truth. [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: I Really Don’t Like The Sound Of This
by Inigo Chamerberlin Last night I caught Philip Linden in-world and was able to raise what is to me, personally, the main issue of voice – the cost to me. You see I own a grandfathered class 4 island and it seems likely, from the original blog post, that there will be a charge for [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: A First Look at Second Life?
Software written by kittens in a feather factory by Inigo Chamerberlin I’ve been engaged in testing the ‘First Look’ Second Life viewer since it first became publicly available and I think its development process tells us a great deal about why Second Life is so flaky. My system is fairly high spec and is capable [...]
Full StoryWalled Garden
Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, and A Secret Virtual Garden That Fits in the Palm of Your Hand I first heard the term “walled garden” to describe Second Life about two years ago from Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture. Of course it brought up strong memories of The Secret Garden which we [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: wtf?
by Pixeleen Mistral I am a generally patient soul. calm. not easily excitable. But I do view with a certain amount of alarm a few problems in the metaverse — such as those that resulted in a non-functional world for my small petty pursuits over the last few days. Indulge me if you will – [...]
Full StoryLudlow Joins Shirkeyjerk
Hotspur, Glendower, Mortimer and Worcester arguing over the future division of the kingdom at Bangor, in ‘Henry IV’. Painting by Henry Fuseli. Let’s see if we can reconstruct what happened. First, there was all the fluff and hyperventilation about Second life having 100k then 1 million then 2 million “residents”, followed by much ridicule in [...]
Full StoryBearded Eggheads Talk about Virtual Journalism and Stuff
Henry Jenkins just posted part one of a two-part interview with our own Nutty Professor — Peter Ludlow. In it Ludlow has some not very nice things to say about the Avastar, and some marginally interesting things to say about civic responsibility and virtual journalism, and also where the Herald fits in the magic circle [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: It’s Always My Fault
Getting blamed for something you didn’t do, or had no control over? by Seola Sassoon With each Second Life release, problems afflict some citizens, while others simply say “it’s fine for me”. What do these who have no problems have in common with Linden Lab? They both blame the victim! The droning advice of “update [...]
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