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Herald Announces First Virtual Birthday Party in Second Life. Ever!!!

Waiting at the Herald Party in Hyperborea: CLICK HERE FOR A SLURL TO TAKE YOU TO THE EVENT! Yes, it’s true, the 3rd Birthday Party of the Second Life Herald will be the first virtual birthday party ever held in second life. We know this, because we googled “First birthday party in second life” and [...]

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Telegraph Interview with Ludlow Continues…

Yesterday, Telegraph reporter Ian Douglass posted an interview with Peter Ludlow that covered issues like virtual crime and dispute resolution. In part two, published today, Ian leads the discussion into the topic of personal identity online, and in particular the possibility that self-identity involves the collaborative construction of narratives about ourselves. Both online and off. [...]

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Just in time for Herald 3rd Birthday: Lost Daily Show Episode Discovered!

Finally someone put this on YouTube. Following is your link to the classic Daily Show episode in which correspondent Rob Corddry dives into our reportage of the TSO cyber-brothel scandal. Along the way he confronts EA spokesman Jeff Brown for being a “cheetah-deleter,” leans about “rough granny sex”, and wets himself a whole lot. Oh [...]

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Another Reality Check from the MSM: Daily Telegraph Interviews Media Mack Daddy, Peter Ludlow

No sooner did I link to the the story by Mark Glaser with his smackdown on the hyperventilating Business Week story, but now The Daily Telegraph from the UK has signed up for Herald Reality Therapy ™ and offers part one of an interview with the always fairly unbalanced ™ typist for Urizenus Sklar. The [...]

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Finall! A Reality Check Comes from the MSM

Mark Glaser of PBS has finally tapped the brakes on what has been the unrelenting hyperventilation about Second Life by the Mainstream Media. Kudos to Tony Walsh, whose calls for reflection seem to have caught Glaser’s attention. My favorite remarks by Glaser were the one’s reserved for Business Week: BusinessWeek, rather than set up its [...]

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Ben Folds’ New Song: Second Life Mutha-F-ers Need to get a Real Life

Fresh from F-bombing Second Lifers in an underwhelming performance at the SONY Island in Second life Ben (Hasbeen) Folds has been hard at work in his studio writing about the life-altering roof-shifting experience that is Second Life while doing shots of Jaeger with Mel Gibson and arranging the adoption of a Malawi orphan via Skype. [...]

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Top 25 Screenshots in Herald History!

BallerMoMo King, back in the day. We continue our lead-up to the Herald third birthday party on Wed Thursday the 26th at 2PM, with a stroll down memory lane with some classic screenshots from the Herald archives.Following are Uri’s choices for the top screenshots in the Herald library (which is to say that not all [...]

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Hello Grayness My Old Friend

  Good Afternoon, everybody! This is Meteorologist Prokofy Neva high atop the Pharos Lighthouse in Ross bringing you Weather on the Ones! Conditions remain unpredictable throughout the grid. Heavy thunderstorms of gray squares everywhere — the Lindens have to make *something* give to accommodate the huge influx of new citizens straining the Central Asset Asshat [...]

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Saluting the Herald Paparazzi: Top Herald Photos of Past 3 Years

Philip Linden on hearing the news that Uri is back writing for the Herald. As the third birthday party of the Second Life Herald approaches, we thought a stroll down memory lane was in order. And who could provide a nicer stroll than the Herald Paparazzi? In this post, Uri’s choices for the top 10 [...]

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GM Joins Corporate Invasion of SL: Residents Wake up and Begin to Smell the Coffee

Concerned Citizens Debate Chief Pontiac’s Invasion of SL. The Pontiac Division of failing Michigan-based auto-maker, General Motors Corporation, has announced that it will soon join the recent corporate invation of Second Life, offer free land (rumored to be as many as 5 simulators) to support the development of “car culture” in Second Life. According to [...]

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