… I was sitting in front of my faithful old Apple PowerBook G4 laptop, on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, looking for a game that my roomie Moon Adamant wouldn’t find boring (she’s the gamer girl; I just enjoy watching her playing!) to play together. Since I […]
SL Society
I’ve failed to keep in touch with the cool things happening in Second Life®, and this one definitely was quite an encouraging one: US President Barack Obama, while on his state visit in Ghana, streamed his address to audiences in Second Life and Metaplace, something which for some reason failed […]
Creative residents protest against the way Linden Lab set up the test sims for Adult verification. Although some might have found it funny, most are a bit put off by the electric fences and special effects, reminiscent of a Nazi concentration camp. I personally found it funny, but I can imagine […]
First of all, to be fair, congratulations to the winners of Linden Lab’s Second Life Resident Choice Awards on all categories and all languages — and congratulations, too, to the 6,000 that have patiently gone through the long list of categories and managed to fill in all SLURLs to complete […]
Well, there you go. Yes, Second Life® is still a bit cartoonish and not yet absolutely photo-realistic. Although, of course, with a little effort, good photos, some Photoshopping, and a shadows-enabled client, you can get pretty good results, as we all know. However, what about having cartoons in Second Life? […]
Particle-master ArminasX Saiman has done an extensive research job of tracking down the 200 most read blogs of Second Life®, an astonishing feat by all accounts, patiently looking up their rankings on Technorati and figuring out if they were still active or not. While doing any list of “most read […]
Art is about creativity, and art in Second Life, is more so 🙂 Sadly, it also means that you have to be specially creative to raise funding for art in SL. Ina Centaur‘s SL Shakespeare Company is now legendary: for a couple of years it has produced and staged Shakespearean […]
Hiro Pendragon pointed me to the latest bit of Valleywag nonsense, where you can see that once more the End of Second Life® is predicted, falsely claiming that everybody has lost interest in SL except educators. I was angry when publishing the comment which I reprint below (because, well, if […]
Formerly known as “El Presidente” (a title now held by M Linden) and currently known as “Exortium”, Philip “Linden” Rosedale was always the driving force behind Linden Lab’s vision — and, to a degree, Second Life’s®. But on a recent interview to the Portuguese news radio TSF, he confesses that […]
In an excellent piece of work, in-world video reporter Draxtor Despres brings us the coverage of might be a beginning for RL politicians to seriously use Second Life® as a platform to bring together citizens around a topic and listen to them: The topic is the US’s possible forthcoming national healthcare […]
When answering to Tateru Nino’s post on Massively about Linden Lab’s new choice of webpage, there was a short talk on the comments section about how little Linden Lab really listens to comments from their users. But at least they open these kinds of things for discussion. Some Lindens even participate […]
The year was 2004. Second Life® was a very small place, where half of the residents participated rather a lot on the forums — and then met in-world to be creative together. It was the time when we still had a “Second Life community” — a time for individuals with […]