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Virtual Vigilantes – Eggheads Are Watching the Watchers
Over at at Henry Jenkins blog and MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media site, part one of Herald founder Urizenus Sklar’s think piece Watching the Watchers: Power and Politics in Second Life traces the...
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SHOCK! Defne Demar Joins Herald Staff – Instantly Outs Herself!!!
by Idoru Wellman, staff writer In a press release today, Pixeleen Mistral and Urizenus Sklar announced Defne Demar has joined the Herald staff. Ms. Demar ended minutes of speculation by admitting her...
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SL-Newspaper.com Folds – Slams Lab – Shuts Doors
SL-Newspaper today announced the end of their 4 year run covering Second Life, as editor Dana Vanmoer pointed out that real life might be more important than Second Life. This news may come as a...
View ArticleHerald Survives Day in DNS Hell
Domain name denied — trusted servers play SERVFAIL card A pair of rogue domain name servers have been stripped of their authoritative status and permanently banished from the Herald DNS registration...
View ArticleThe Hall of Mirrors and The Real World
A note from the Alphaville Herald Editors Since the Alphaville Herald’s inception in 2003, we have covered the news of online worlds and societies like no one else. You’ve enjoyed tales of griefers,...
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Tizzers Trolls Twitter: Microsoft
Media depends on echo chamber for "news" 24 hours after Tizzers Foxchase placed a single post on Twitter – a little birdie told me that Microsoft may have silently offered tp buy Linden Lab this week –...
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National Geographic Channel To Feature SL on ‘Taboo’
More publicity for Linden Lab - what could possibly go wrong? Second Life's well known sex-bed entrepreneur Stroker Serpentine, his Second Life virtual family, and his real-life family are to be...
View ArticlePaleFire’s Open Letter to Kalel Venkman
Have griefers turned the JLU into a paranoid collective? When I approached Peter Ludlow at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in May 2010, I never would have guessed that my research would cause...
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SLCC 2011 Drama!!! Avatar Identity: Privacy and Transparency in Social Media
Mysterious threats leads to last minute SLCC program revision - a pattern of harassment? The first indication I would be playing another round of Second Life as a real life alternative reality game...
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Noam Chomsky, Anonymous Speak Out on Rap News
#Occupy2012 video documents live manifestation of Prophetseer Emeritus "Turn off your TVs for a start" Featuring a healthy dose of pepper spray - which sources on the UC Davis campus recently learned...
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