Op/Ed: Property Rights, Advertising, and Freedom in Second Life

by IntLibber Brautigan Advertising is a necessary part of Second Life, just like it is a necessary part of the internet. Advertising monetizes (i.e. makes profitable) an investment in a website or sim parcel that otherwise could not be. Why else does Linden Lab charge us to list classified ads in search? Why else do [...]

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Beautifully Sinister — Post 6 Grrrl

[I think that Beautifully Sinister is the first Post 6 Model I've featured that I knew from before my days at the Alphaville Herald. To head off any cries of cronyism here at the Post 6 Desk, let me explain that Ms. Sinister designs hip versions of Gorean and Medieval clothing that I discovered when [...]

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Bio-Warfare Attacks on Second Life Chicken Farms

sionChicken Killer threatens virtual birds with death by starvation by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Second Life’s chicken farming community is facing a deadly new threat – a food decoy  that distracts virtual chickens from their food trays, starving them to death over the course of several days. The threat of biological warfare marks the [...]

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Op/Ed: Second Life Needs Ad Farmers

Falling land prices  – Donut & Reverse Donut Hole Traps – The Arbor Project  – ROBO Marx permaban by IntLibber Brautigan For years there has been an ongoing conflict between two mainland commercial forces: the landbot runner and the ad farmer. The land bot runner makes his money by hedging low land prices and selling [...]

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WoW Night Elf Hunters Risking Their Lives for TwitPics?

TweetCraft Twitter client for World of Warcraft could lead to game bans by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk World of Warcraft players are not exactly rushing to break their immersion with the TweetCraft in-game Twitter client, despite Jenna Wortham’s New York Times story TweetCraft Casts Spell on WoW Players, Twitterers. A visit to the TweetCraft [...]

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Watching Obama in Ghana from Metaplace/Second Life

Ironic ads courtesy of USTREAM video by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A bit of unintentional irony was my reward for attending an early-morning cross world Second Life/Metaplace live stream of President Obama’s speech in Ghana today, as incongruous advertisements streamed along with the USTREAM feed rebroadcasting the Voice of America coverage of the speech. [...]

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Party with Post 6: Glitterati & Paparazzi Cavort Saturday!

Post 6 reunion – the sexy social event of the season by Idoru Wellman, staff writer Do you dream of becoming one one of the beautiful people of Second Life – a metaverse glitterati hounded by picture snapping paparazzi? Join Timothy Morpork and countless past and future Post 6 models for the firstever open-to-the-public Post [...]

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Shelby Ziskey — Post 6 Grrrl

[Sometimes, lightning strikes the same place over and over. To find models who represent the incredibly diverse population of SL, I'm always dragging friends out to new places to scout for potential Post 6 models. One day I was out with a friend dancing at Devious Delights, some random club I found in search, and [...]

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Permanent Panties For Second Life Avatars?

Underwear lockdown discovered in new Second Life viewer by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Second Life undies may become compulsory, as several sources claim version 1.23 of the Second Life viewer includes a server-controlled feature that can prevent  avatars from removing bras, panties, undershirts, and underpants – unless the avatars are “adult verified”. Is the [...]

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Metaplace Worlds Now Embed Into Any Web Page

1.) build a world    2.) add it to your web site    3.) profit? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk If the name of the game in MMOs is to grow the user population in preparation for an eventual IPO, Metaplacetook a significant step forward this week by allowing Metaplace spaces tobe inserted into players' web [...]

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