Archive for the ‘linden lab’ Category

A Brief Update

I have not updated since the Coup d’Réseau. I also have not been spending much time inworld.  The reasons are personal, and they don’t involve any one person, or group, or any drama.  I’ve been in need of some quiet time, and I’ve been finding it in RL.  I haven’t been able to find that [...]

M Gone, Phil Back

I’m late in responding to this, and I’m not particularly sure that my opinion is all that important … but here it is. “Huh.”

SL7B and Entitlement

It’s not often that you will find me actually agreeing with the likes of Prokofy Neva on a subject.  On the subject of “censorship” at SL7B, we do agree – well, at least up to the point where he wanders off into another rambling rant about communism. SL7B is, at its core, a public-relations event.  [...]

Black Thursday and the Culture of Relevance

I attended Codie Redgrave’s memorial installation at Rouge last night.  Botgirl said it so perfectly – you could not explain to anyone outside of our unique culture how a screenful of mostly-gray attendees attempting to walk through a molasses-murk of server lag to stand amongst row upon row of identical, digitally-engraved tombstones could tug at [...]

Marx Goes Off on a Lazy, Pseudo-Journalistic Hack

Second Life™ has now been a part of our global internet for seven years.  It began in June 2003, and promised a new way for people to create, communicate and interact together – and for hundreds of thousands of people, it has delivered and continues to deliver on that promise.  Corporations entered, hoping to exploit [...]