Posts in the "Second Life" Category

• Stroker and Nomine versus Linden Lab

  Business
  

  If you didn’t see this coming, then you really should have.  It was only a matter of time before someone disgruntled enough took the legal route to take a lashing at Linden Lab. This case has arisen and has been pounced on by numerous SL blogs. Who is it? Well it involves two named plaintiffs. [...]

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• The Periodic Table of SL Abbreviations and Emoticons

  Humour
  In any culture, the people will over time develop their own phrases and words which are unique to them. They tend to be words and phrases which they understand, but outsiders may not. Those in close proximity to this culture will understand some phrases and words, but not all. Such is the way of language! [...]

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• Commons Sensible

  Creative
  

  Not to be confused with Common Sensible, which is an excellent read by Ari Blackthorne. Contrary to what anyone else may say,  taking other people’s artworks and making out they’re their own is in no way a new trend, as me and Ryker Beck found a year ago today on this very blog. In fact, [...]

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• PradLife Viewer ~ Upcoming Features: The Friend’s List

  Humour
  

  I’m hereby announcing my upcoming project to further advance the cause of Second Life, and make life easier for SL residents. I’m dubbing it codename “PradLife Viewer” and it’ll be a Second Life viewer that you can use to connect to any grid in the known metaverse. Whether it works or not is a completely [...]

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• Second Life Login Screens

  Humour
  

  I’ve been seeing some rather.. interesting Second Life login screens recently. Perhaps I need to get my vision checked or something, but they seem to be a little, well, unusual. Here’s some screengrabs that I picked off:

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• The Politics of Picks

  Musings
  

  Picks are a funny thing. Profile pervs love them and cotton on to any changes at all.. correct a spelling error and they’ll know about it. They won’t say anything unless it’s a major change, but trust me – they know. A lot of people use their profiles to shoutout to their friends. And that’s [...]

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• Linden Lab Bite Back!

  Business
  

  Well after years and years of us wondering, Linden Lab have finally spoken up about Intellectual Property rights of content creators in Second Life. There’s quite a lot to digest in their blogpost, which firstly focuses on the much criticised DMCA process. The long paperwork trail was indeed cumbersome, and a digital process is certainly [...]

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• Building A Sim: For Dummies

  Articles
  

  In my ever continuing mission to provide an educational service to the residents of Second Life, I offer a guide on how to build a sim in Second Life! Load up the Second Life website (10 seconds) Find the webpage to purchase a sim (1 minute) Realise how much a sim costs and swear (5 [...]

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• What's in a Number?

  Articles
  

  A close friend of mine has been trying for the past two months to try and make it in the SL modelling business, but hasn’t been able to work out why everyone keeps closing doors on her. As someone who is constantly looking for models at random times to photograph, I have an eye for [...]

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• Transcending Friendship

  Business
  A couple of months ago, I was contacted by somebody I knew nothing about, and somebody I still know very little about. But this person offered me a position writing on his blog – writing on a blog which, as it turned out, was about to be voted the most popular in Second Life. Just as [...]

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