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The SLCC (Second Life Community Convention) is coming up in Boston, Aug 13-15th.

Philip Rosedale is back in as CEO, after Klingdon stepped down. A SL resident community meeting was held July 30th.

Linden Labs released viewer 2.1.0. Torley has some new videos for it.

Don't like the new viewer? You can still find the old instructional videos under the Showcase tab on the SL website.

Need a class on building but don't want to sit with hundreds of newbies. Check out GQ Start!

Having trouble with griefers? Or someone who is being offensive.Here's what to do. Watch Report Abuse Video

No one showing up at your event? Better check grid status. Secondlife Grid Status

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Sunrise Mansion and Art Gallery has closed but Indea Vaher is still around and has been instrumental in reshaping the Virtual Montmartre sim, hich occupies the other side of Virtual Harlem which has also been rebuilt. Indea has brought artists to Montmartre to occupy studio space there. DJ Miles 11th Hour now has a studio there where his art work can be seen.

Speaking of DJ Miles, he has also been busy doing some live gigs in SL and making machinima. You can follow him on his Youtube channel. The machinima is really good and hilarious.

A footbal league was formed this year in SL, called appropriately enough the SLNFL. The season ended with the SLNFL Broncos winning the championship. Their MVP player was Kaino Hotshot. And for all of you SL sports fan, there is an AL basketball league forming now. We will look forward to hearing more news about that.

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HISTORIC CROSS GRID EVENT TAKES PLACE

Written by Administrator
Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:48
An historic cross grid party took place recently in Second Life and on OSGrid. The event was spearheaded by Cursa Charisma of Nexus Roleplay and co-sponsored by Majorie Dibou of Black Soul Rhythms Radio, Lanai Jarrico of SLEnquirer, Lani Global of Lani Global Region/OSGrid, and JJ Zackerly of OSGrid . So what was it all about? Its been about two and one-half years since Linden Labs announced they had successfully teleported an avatar from SL to a virtual world built on open source technology. Back then, when the avatar teleported, it ended up in the new place as “Ruth.” For most SL residents that event has faded in memory and the open source versions of SL did not come up much in discussion. But work has continued on the open source project. Today there are thousands of grids, with a few distinguishing themselves in terms of organization and consistent development. Teleporting between grids in OpenSim, can now be done with hypergrid, allowing avatars to go from one grid to another seamlessly, although SL remains walled off from that process. Over the past year, price increases in SL motivated more people, particularly those in educational and non-profit environments to check out OpenSim grids, mostly through the grid known as OSGrid, which currently is the largest of the OpenSim grids. Others of note are InworldZ and Aniworlds. OSGrid just celebrated its 4^th birthday with a grid wide weekend celebration.
Last Updated on Friday, 12 August 2011 04:57
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SHOULD YOUR AVATAR SURVIVE YOU?

Written by Administrator
Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:25
Since the last time this site was updated a number of operator of Second Life residents have passed away in real life. See the Farewell column below. Their passings rekindled a question I was pondering for a while. Today, many people have on-line identities through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, email accounts , game accounts, and other digital content. What should happen with those identities when the real life operator dies? Have you thought about that? Would you want your loved one to have access to any of your on-line identities, a few of them or none at all? Most of us have not thought about this issue and for the most part, with the exception of Yahoo!, ISP providers have made no explicit provisions for death of the real life operator. Probably the underlying assumption originally was that upon death the account would terminate. The various ToS and EULA agreements however, do not specifically say that. And what if your SL avatar is producing net income (yes...naysayers, there are still some SL residents that run businesses in the black) which your family benefits from? Should your family be able to continue to enjoy the financial benefit of your creative work? These questions would have seemed silly ten years ago, but today these are valid concerns which all of us who have on-line identities should think seriously about. As strange as it sounds, it may be time for people to start including their on-line identities and assets in their wills!
Last Updated on Friday, 12 August 2011 05:02

FAREWELL

Written by Administrator
Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:30
In the past few months, these members of the SL Communities of color have passed away: Kevinblue Oh – Many of you may recognize Kevinblue's name. He was one of the many talented live music artists of Second Life. He was a musician of note in real life and just a fascinating person. Please read all about him. A memorial service for him was sponsored by Indea Vaher. Yap Barth – Yap was a friend of mine from way back. A nicer person you could not hope to meet. Yap had a loving family in SL as well as in RL. He is missed by his SL sisters, Choyce Mostel, ChocolateKiss, SucculentChocolate and Shani SUgar. Yap passed after a struggle with cancer. A memorial was held for him in SL and I am told that his real life spouse came in-world to attend the ceremony and to honor her husband's virtual existence. We will all miss Yap.
Last Updated on Friday, 12 August 2011 05:00