Monthly Archives: November 2009
The Russian Dolls: A Short Science Fiction Story by Extropia DaSilva
Extie is back, and this time she wrote not an essay, but a short story — Gwyn This story was originally written for my sis, Jamie Marlin, to celebrate our aniversary. ONE. The television set materialised out of thin air, neatly filling the space that Adam had been staring at the moment before. He sat on the edge of his bed which doubled as his sofa when he did not…
Some thoughts about freebies and their announced death
I’ve written a few thoughts on my other blog about LL’s announced policy changes for XStreetSL, the value of items in Second Life, and why I seriously think that the freebie/dollarbie economy is not such a good think after all, in spite of Dusan Writer’s belief that it is ultimately Second Life’s destiny to be a virtual world with free content. Send article as PDF to
More debunking BBC’s article…
I’ve been accused of being “too gentle” with BBC and their intern, Lauren Hansen… but Heather Michon hasn’t been, nor Hamlet Au. BBC hasn’t yet added any comments new on the past two days, which just shows the kind of reaction they’re getting about their article Send article as PDF to
Open letter to the BBC
You might have read by now BBC’s shockingly poor article on Second Life (yes, it’s another one of those “SL is dead” articles). It might shock you even more to know that M Linden had given them an interview which was mostly neglected and ignored; Linden Lab graciously published the whole interview since M Linden’s own comment might never make the BBC site. My own comment might also never make…
Second Life Enterprise and the Second Life Work Marketplace
I’ve tried to dispel some myths and rumours around Linden Lab’s latest enterprise-class product offerings on my other blog. I hope it clarifies some questions and doubts Comments are welcome over there… Send article as PDF to
Linden Lab Splits Mentor Group
Here I am, at what might be my last picture as a Mentor on a Help Island. Why? Linden Lab has just discontinued the Mentor Programme. A shock to many of the 1,600 Mentors (down from a group that has once had up to 3,500 volunteers) that have been faithfully helping out new residents with their first steps in Second Life®. As of December 11, the Mentor group will be…
Step UP! day is today
After the huge launch by Linden Lab yesterday, addressing the real life business market, it’s time to get back in-world, and make sure that content theft doesn’t get more widespread, by making sure that everybody knows what it’s all about — including, of course, our dear Lindens For that, a group of residents (which has quite grown lately!!) has been promoting November 5th as the Step UP! day. It’s very…
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