Instead of Second Life

It is very common to hear people in Second Life complaining about the amount of time they spend there, it’s often been called an “addiction”. A friend recently posted on his blog a piece about why people shouldn’t be ashamed or embaressed about being part of the Second Life experience and the time they spend [...]

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Second Life Families

They say you can’t choose your family. Well in Second Life people can and do – they decide their relationship with someone feels like that of siblings or uncles etc and then agree amongst themselves that they have that “connection” (and typically openly declare it in their profiles).
Being part of a Second Life family isn’t [...]

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Unused Pictures

Every Second Life photo shoot I do ends up consisting of around 10 to 50 shots. I normally choose to process only one of those shots for public viewing. The rest sit in my picture folder until I am ready to dump them. I dump them when the picture I chose to process has fulfilled [...]

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My 2008 Second Life

As we slip away from Christmas and towards New Years, it’s the right time to gather my thoughts about how 2008 went in Second Life for me: The new friendships, the lost friendships, the change in my SL personality, and the events that stood out above all others.
New Friendships. I could never do an exhaustive [...]

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Choosing Sexuality, Teasing, and Normalcy

A recent post by Raul Crimson http://raulcrimson.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/gayety/ , and in particular some of the comments on it, left me with more to say than a comment space rightly allows. So I had to come here to blog the length of what I want to say.
The post was about a shot of him and Prad naked [...]

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Spam doesn’t pay..?

Not that long ago I was complaining about unsolicited spam via Second Life residents… well it seemed very topical and apt that I just came across this story about people receiving a hefty fine for email spamming, under New Zealand law: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0812/S00291.htm .
What I’d like to know is how much they actually made from the [...]

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Why we join, and why we stay

Today, as per usual, I got to meet a random newbie passing through Crown & Pearl. One of my standard questions I ask to get a feel for who these newbies are, is why did they joined Second Life. And he did what so few actually do, and asked me the same question back. And [...]

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Beautiful Cruelty and Second Life

I’ve been subjected to some beautiful cruelty in my time; the truly impressive bouts are the product of fully conscious minds either lashing out because I have something they want and am refusing to give them, or people testing their boundaries on me. The ones who have intrigued me are the latter – those knowingly [...]

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Gallery of Light #4: Fear

Here is my picture for the 4th theme at the Gallery of Light: Fear.
I struggled at first with deciding on the concept I wanted to represent, but I soon decided on at least something I didn’t want to do. I didn’t want to do a “fear OF” something. I wanted to represent either fear itself [...]

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Intellectual Property: Understanding Foundations

A while ago I said I would be posting about Intellectual Property as it applies to Second Life, drawing from both my Philosophical and Legal background, as well as my experiences. Numerous fun things like my Twilight Gallery showing and my wisdom teeth being yanked have managed to postpone the series, but it has been [...]

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