Posts in the "Articles" Category

• Intimate Details

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  How much knowledge do you require of each other’s real-world bodies, to write cyber which isn’t so completely divorced from reality and expectations, that it ends up losing its effect and flow? I can already hear the first volley of replies, “none! It’s fantasy, and even if it wasn’t, your avatar is no doubt so [...]

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• Taser Stuns Linden Lab

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  A story like this really just writes its own title. Taser International Inc. have filed a suit against Linden Lab, XStreetSL and the former owners of XSL, VirtuaTrade. Taser are the biggest producers of stun guns, of course, and it seems they’re unhappy about those residents who are infringing their trademark in SL. It’s interesting [...]

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• Who is Vickie Greenwood?

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  Since winning three awards in the Second Life Resident’s Choice, Vickie Greenwood’s found herself thrust into the spotlight and has been subject to applause, critiques as well as a lot of “Who?”. There have been calls that the whole thing has been gamed or fixed, and that it’s a joke that a relative unknown can [...]

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• Reflection on Resident Choices

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  So despite picking up an award, there are quite a lot of gripes to be had with the Second Life Resident Choice Awards. In the aftermath of the SL Awards, was it really all we thought it’d be? Hmmm.. first off, were the categories. I think most people found them to be pretty, well, odd. [...]

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• SL's Favourite Blog: Metaversally Speaking

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  Second Life residents have voted Metaversally Speaking as their favourite blog on all things related to the virtual world! I’ll admit it came as a huge surprise to me, especially considering how many other fantastic bloggers are out there, as well as many who have been around much longer than me. I started Metaversally Speaking [...]

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• 5 Steps to Good Landscape Design in SL

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  The following steps are designed to take you from the largest to the smallest details in designing your land and placing everything so that you can create a pleasing experience for you and your guests.

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• Legacy

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  About 2 years ago, I woke up in a hospital bed. It’s bad enough to blink awake and have no idea where you are, let alone for there to be tubes coming out of every part of you and having no sense of what’s happened. Fact of the matter was that I’d spent the previous [...]

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• Posers

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  The problems with using pose-balls for cyber, reveal themselves pretty quickly on attempt one. However some people will persist in using them despite their draw backs and limitations, other people will make fun of those who choose to use the pose-balls at all instead of just using written cyber, while others will swear by them [...]

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• Magazines vs. Blogs

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  I’ve often tried to place the purpose of an SL magazine versus a blog on the virtual world. Both are free to view, and both provide the same information – news, editorials, photography, fashion, etc.. except that blogs are much quicker with their news, and magazines usually just serve as a recap of the previous [...]

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• Faking It: Activity and Enjoyment

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  The issue of whether to “fake it” – any part of it – during cyber, is not as straight-forward as you may think. Your gut instinct may be to say “it’s all faking anyway cause you’re not really doing it” so there is no limit to what you should fake. I’m going to argue against [...]

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