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Open Letter from Second Life CEO/Prophet, Phil Rosedale
Digital Worlds, Digital Lives, Digital Futures An Open Letter to Thereians and the Metaverse community Philip Rosedale, CEO and Founder, Second Life With the recent announcement that the There.com commercial service is to receive reduced support, I wanted to write a bit about how I (Philip Rosedale, AKA Philip Linden) and the Second Life team [...]
Full StoryLeaving the Party
In the Clay Shirky article post below is the following passage, which I found interesting, and worth pondering out of context. “You’re at a party and you get bored — it’s not doing it for youanymore. The people you wanted to talk to have already left, you’vebeen there a long time, you’d rather be home [...]
Full StoryClay Shirky on Mutable Rules for Games
Clay Shirky rocks, what more can I say. Oh, maybe this: following is a copy of an essay he’s been giving since the State of Play conf., on the plausibility and desirability of games that give players themselves the ability to change the rules as the game evolves. There are technical issues, of course, but [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: You can so have fun in TSO
by Hyper Some people may argue that there is not enough content in TSO, they may say that that is the reason they quit there was nothing interesting or fun in game. It was all about making money reaching the top in a category and quitting. Some people may say they are griefers and like [...]
Full StoryOn the Positive Side…
by Hyper After being asked by a AVH news reporter to be interviewed over the “unfair” Dan’s Grove elections, I got to thinking, I refused to be interviewed because, I felt the AVH is/was trash and never published one positive story. So to make a long story short after getting hyped up over the elections, [...]
Full StoryAV Election Analysis by MIT’s Technology Review
Even before the dust has settled on the AVG elections, MIT’s Henry Jenkins (author of Textual Poachers among other mind-blowing bits of academic excellence) has keyed a piece on the Alphaville elections, which just appeard in the MIT Techology Review: “Playing Politics in Alphaville“. The article is interesting in that it attempts to probe the [...]
Full StoryMy View of the Alphaville Elections
By Peter Ludlow I’m dropping out of character and writing this under my real life name so that people will understand that I am being serious, but also because I am discussing this at a “meta” level. These comments are about the game; they are not in game.
Full StoryOp/Ed: The Stratics TSO Board – Ship of Fools
by Kiss For those of us who remember the old TSO message board reading the Stratics board is downright depressing. Only God knows how many boards I have read over the years and I have never seen such a collection of inarticulate cheerleading, worthless fluff, and just plain wrong information. Based upon the total dearth [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Ashley Richardson is the Real Scammer
by Ian Ashley Richardson ran for president of alphaville government, and lost. She cried foul, that the election was apparently “rigged”. Is there any PROOF behind that? That is all she says, put-downs about the current Alphaville Government Administration. Her whole campaign was against scammers and mafias. She even promised to Oust them from Alphaville. [...]
Full StoryAnd the Alphaville Herald Endorses…
It is customary for a newspaper to endorse candidates at election time, and several sims have asked us if we intend to endorse a candidate in today’s election. Picking between these candidates is not an easy task. Both are eminently qualified and capable, but both are also flawed in non-trivial ways.
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