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Rate Oxford Creates Immersive SL Space For World War I Poetry

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Fri, Nov 20

By SLHamlet I haven't had a chance yet to explore the War Poets Exhibition in Second Life, an extremely ambitious Oxford project that presents World War I poetry contextualized in an immersive simulation of WWI battlegrounds. However, the agile Emily Orr has,...

Rate Lyric's Desire: Erotic SL Machinima From Lyric Lundquist

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Thu, Nov 19

By SLHamlet There are many Second Life machinimas that aim to titillate with sexual imagery, but for my mojo, at least, few are actually sexy. Then there's "Sideways Time", the latest from Lyric Lundquist, whose expressionist machinima I've celebrated before, a geometric...

Rate Chestnut's Choices 11/19 - 11/25: Fleet Week in New Babbage, Celebrate Two Years of the Crown & Pearl, Virtual Praxis Women's International Conference and much more

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Thu, Nov 19

By Chestnut Rau Chestnut Rau’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL event..... New Babbage is a steampunk city-state located inside Second Life. The builds are extraordinary and the community consists of dedicated roleplayers who are friendly and welcoming to visitors. You can read all...

Rate New World Newsfeed: Linden Partners With Online Gambling Service To Handle Online/International Payments

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Wed, Nov 18

By SLHamlet The Lindens have partnered with 888 Holdings, an online gambling company, to handle payment services, especially for international Second Life users. As M. Linden puts it in the press release, "[W]e’re pleased to work with them to provide easy and...

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate Second Life Stat of the Day: Only 6% of SL Land Is "Adult" Rated For Pornographic Content

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Tue, Nov 17

By SLHamlet Awhile ago I mentioned the invaluable work of Tyche Shepherd, a Resident who meticulously tracks in-world Second Life data such as "Incident" reports. In a recent report posted on the SL Universe Forum, she has exhaustive details on the full...

Rate Fun With Sim-Wide Havok 4 Physics in Second Life

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Tue, Nov 17

By SLHamlet This is one of the lovelier demonstrations of Second Life Havok 4 physics at its most, well, physical: This mayhem is brought you to by a metaverse developer called Bytegang, helmed by the aptly named Loki Dancer. "We did the...

Rate My Seven Favorite New World Notes Posts From Last Week

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Mon, Nov 16

By SLHamlet Meet Second Life's oldest Resident: She's 97 years young. How to Make Second Life Truly Mass Market, Part 2: Point-and-Click Avatar Movement! (Heated but interesting conversation in Comments) Philip Rosedale Unveils New Company: "LoveMachine Inc" Offers AI, Destruction of the...

Rate I Like Banana's (Second Life Travel and Fashion Blog)

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Fri, Nov 13

By SLHamlet Banana Vella is the quirky name of a fashionista with a yen for SL travel -- and her blog is named the same. Amid sporadic fashion spreads, she lavishly illustrates her many travels in SL, and they're locations you'll want...

Rate What RL Country Has the Most SL Spenders By Proportion?

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Fri, Nov 13

By SLHamlet Quaintly Tuquri, an SL Resident living in Malaysia, looked at the most recent Second Life economic statistics, and noted something interesting: Her compatriots are responsible for 4% of in-world user-to-user transactions. That would not seem like much, but then, Malaysia...

Rate How to Make SL Mass Market, Part 2: Point-and-Click Avatar Movement!

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Wed, Nov 11

By SLHamlet World of Warcraft, the largest 3D online world with 12 million subscribers, has it. Sims 2, which is often compared to Second Life, and is the biggest selling single-player 3D game for the PC, with 13 million owners, also has...

Past Month

 

Rate In Survey, 90% Call For Critical Second Life Fashion Blog -- Here's Some Advice on Writing One

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Tue, Nov 10

By SLHamlet Noting the dearth of SL blogs that are critical of Second Life fashion, I recently surveyed the demand for same. Here's the results: nearly 90% are potentially interested in reading an SL blog with negative product reviews. Iris Ophelia wrote...

Rate New World Newsfeed: Top University's Online Advisers Now Required To Maintain Office Hours on Second Life Campus

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Tue, Nov 10

By SLHamlet Penn State is ranked among the United State's very best public universities, and now the Chronicle of Higher Education reports it has another distinction: The school's online advisors are required to maintain office hours as avatars in Penn State's Second...

Rate Second Life's Oldest Resident is 97

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Mon, Nov 9

By SLHamlet Los Angeles architect David Denton uses Second Life as a tool for his work (more on that soon), and when colleagues complain that SL is too complicated, he has a novel reply: "If my 97 year old mother can do...

Rate Second Life Machinima Shot With an iPhone

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Mon, Nov 9

By SLHamlet Want an economical way to shoot Second Life machinima? There's an app for that. As demonstrated by Botgirl Questi, who captures SL video with her iPhone: I actually like how the iPhone gives the footage a glassy, abstracted appearance. (This...

Rate Today Meet Virtual Goods Expert Susan Wu in Second Life!

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Sun, Nov 8

By SLHamlet Today (November 8) at 4 PM SLT/Pacific, virtual goods expert Susan Wu will be the guest on SmarterTechnology's Second Life show, where she'll speak on "The Internet Economics of Vampire Fun". Fast Company named her one of 2009's 100 most...

Rate The Heartbreak of Second Life Content Theft

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Fri, Nov 6

By SLHamlet SL fashion designer Sasy Scarborough has a long and tormented post on the heartbreak of content theft, sent to me by my style columnist Iris Ophelia. Here is Sasy talking about one of her regular routines, tracking down stolen content,...

Rate Open Forum: What Upcoming Second Life Events Should We Cover In Chestnut's Absence?

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Thu, Nov 5

By SLHamlet Chestnut Rau's real life owner is under the weather, so Chestnut's Choices won't be running this week. If you know about excellent Second Life events happening from today until next Wednesday, please post details in Comments. Don't forget to include...

Year 2009

 

Rate New World Newsfeed: Philip Rosedale Leaves Linden Lab To Start a New Second Life-Centric Company (But Doing What?)

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Thu, Oct 15

By SLHamlet Second Life Blog: Next Chapter! A year after ceding the CEO position to Mark Kingdon, Linden Lab founder Philip Rosedale just announced that he will no longer work at Linden Lab full-time, suggesting that work in his capacity as Linden's...

Rate Chestnut's Choices 10/15 - 10/21: Radical Self-Expression at Burning Life, Ordinal Malaprop & Hyasynth Tiramisu Salon, Edgar Allan Poe Performed Live and Much More

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Thu, Oct 15

By Chestnut Rau Chestnut Rau’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events… Ahhh.....Burning Life. I just love this celebration of creativity and community in Second Life. The SL Burning Life Celebration is modeled after the RL Burning Man Festival that takes place in the...

Rate Does Live Music in Second Life Need a Bouncer Bot?

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Fri, Sep 11

By SLHamlet SL music aficionado Crap Mariner has word of a "bouncer bot", created by veteran performer Mankind Tracer. As the name suggests, it's a payment system for live musicians, and it addresses the problem of earning a decent gig fee, which...

Rate How To: Vint's Diffusely Useful Tips for Photoshopping Second Life Screenshots

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Fri, Jan 4

By SLHamlet As a perusing of the ongoing New World Tableau series will show, a lot of Resident artists who use SL screenshots as their medium often process their images through Photoshop. The challenge is often figuring out how to use it...

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