The Avatar’s Got “Talent” – or something

by Mariner Trilling, new media reporter While surfing the grid one night, I found a crowd of green dots at the NBC studio sim and decided to check out what was going on. Outside the studio there were signs announcing the “Avatar’s got Talent” contest tryouts. The event was modeled after the NBC primetime show, [...]

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The Second Life Teen Grid – An Insider’s Report

by Calade Lamington, Teen Grid resident Hello SL Herald readers! My name is Calade Lamington and I will be writing to you about the teen grid of Second Life. I contacted Pixeleen via e-mail a while ago about writing stories of Teen SL for the Herald and – here I am. So, I come from [...]

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Attack–I Mean Educational Seminar on Ravenglass

By Random Unsung, Dept. of Barn Doors of Perception Left Open After Horses of Delusion Are Stolen

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Bluebird of Unhappiness

Prokofy Neva, Walking 47 Miles of Barbed Wire/Got a Cobra Snake for a Neck-Tie/Got Me a Brand-New House by the Road-Side/Made Out of Rattle-Snake Hide We need a music critic here at the Herald. Ever since Quentinesqe Paine, the college emo dude who used to get an expense account from the paper but never wrote [...]

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Woodbury University Island Destroyed

LL’s extreme smackdown – Woodbury University’s island deleted for TOS violations!“a fascist company-controlled cookie-cutter world” – Tizzers Foxchase by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk not even a smoking crater was left… Sometime Saturday, Woodbury University’s Second Life island dropped off the map of the virtual world. Second Life players have grown accustomed to intermittent outages [...]

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‘Virtual Land’

By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate If you own land in Second Life, hug it a little closer tonight. Its valuation — its very *reality* as a virtual thingie — is open to question — it may be (or always was) merely a kind of service you rent, server space for your content, from [...]

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The Dawn Of The New Media

“We Are The Strange” is going to become a part of the Creative Commons. Remix at will. by Onder Skall, New Media Journalist [this review arrived at the Herald offices a few minutes ago - written on a used notecard shipped inside a plywood cube. Audrey in typesetting has been reminding everyone that union rules [...]

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Superman Talks Down the Goons

By peppermint fizz, Virtual Convention desk Mutually assured ban lists improve metaverse – Superman One of the best parts of working for the Herald, above and beyond the office staff meetings and the fact I feel tall next to Pix, smart next to Jimbo, and quiet next to Prok, is the fact that part of [...]

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Perphides Capalini – Post 6 Grrrrl

[Perphides Capalini makes her Post 6 debut tonight - and what a great way to end the week! As always, Marilyn Murphy, photographer, philosopher, and publisher of Players, Second Life's in-world erotica magazine has found a way to lighten the mood. Enjoy the weekend! - the Editrix] My first exposure to SecondLife was through a [...]

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No Life-Logging Please, We’re Second Lifers

By Prokofy Neva, Harry Bridges Memorial Dept., Smith Act, Inc. You know how when you go to play a game, this TOS drops down in front of you? You know, the screen that says “I agree” or “I disagree” in Second Life — the rules that you must obey or you can’t enter the world. [...]

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