Archive for 'Opinion'
Op/Ed: The Missing Lindens
Linden, oh Linden, wherefore art thou Linden? by Seola Sassoon In recent months, there has been a serious breakdown in communications between the users of SL and the company that created it – Linden Lab. Firstly, we saw a lack of response in the Linden Answers forum, then a shutdown altogether. Where do the masses [...]
Full StoryAgeplay in Second Life: Interview with Jailbait Manager Emily Semaphore
In real life, Emily Semaphore is 35 and works as a librarian. In Second Life, she roleplays as a 13 year old girl. Together, with Ian Manray (her real life husband, who she met in SL!) she manages Jailbait, a Second Life club dedicated to age-play – often involving cybersex between the participants. In this [...]
Full StoryValley-Meme and the Crashed Drawing-Room
A pointy-eared polemic by Prokofy Neva Robbie Dingo’s Whisper Box Near Magellan’s Crash While it seems like a credible concept, the good professor’s “new media” concept reveals too much Chomsky-reading, and not enough McLuhan. Far from having a new streaming interactive pushme/pullyou immersivia to replace the old one-way pulp-and-electron media, we have something far more [...]
Full StoryThe Return of the Salon and the End of Mass Media
Pointyheaditorial by Urizenus Sklar Denizens of the internet have long noted that many online meeting places have served roles like those of the literary salons and coffee houses of the 18th century. Online conferencing systems like The WELL and Mindvox, MUDS and MOOs like Xerox PARC’s LamdaMOO and MediaMOO, and graphical social spaces like The [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Virtual Paradise – But Never on Sunday
Take evenings and weekends off, OK? by Inigo Chamerberlin Trying to accompany a friend on a shopping trip Sunday led to me arriving half naked in, of all places, an InfoHub, or whatever they call those things where newly minted noobs are thrown in at the deep end these days, in Mauve. I logged out, [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Sky Isn’t Falling – Ground Is Rising — Fast
Watermelon and gaffer-tape bodge by Inigo ChamerberlinWell, here I am, Wednesday 10th January 5 pm PST, stuck on my private estate, like I have been for the last 3 days. Objects are going off-world and NOT being returned like there’s no tomorrow, the packet loss (which according to Neotrace is all in the Linden Lab [...]
Full StoryOp Ed: YouTube, News Sites Wimp Out Over Winged Wangs
By Prokofy Neva YouTube and other news and commentary web sites have caved to the pressure of the powerful Anshe Chung Studios and taken down photos and machinima videos of the infamous penising of his interview of the virtual millionairess in Second Life. The news sites, of course, should not have published these materials in [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: The Crying Game
by Eloise Pasteur, European Affairs deskWe all know that search is down, classifieds are broken and so forth. For a lot of us that’s an inconvenience, we can’t find the new shop selling cool clothes, we can’t find shops that sell kinky pose balls unless we’ve got them landmarked. Of course all these new residents [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Beginning of the End? Or End of the Beginning?
by Doc Nielsen I haven’t been in world much lately, but what I’ve heard has been pretty grim, doesn’t really encourage anyone to log on. I’ve just dropped in to transfer cash from Ginko and logged out pretty promptly. The last few days I noticed something of an upsurge in complaints in various forums and [...]
Full StoryGor Is Not a Cult
[editor’s note: Our Gorean-theme week continues with a Gorean slave's rebuttal of Artemis Fate's 'Problem's of Gor' series.] by Tara Reardon Artemis Fate’s statement regarding Gor being a cult is entirely incorrect. Do you have first hand experience in a cult? Do you understand how they work? My guess is that you don’t quite get [...]
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