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Second Life’s Facebook vs. Google Plus Pages
Second Life to me is already Social Media. But it Chooses to connect to is user base thru popular Social Media Outlets…. almost. On Google Plus, Second Life has a page that people can include in the circle, and has 155 doing so. ...
Should SecondLife be “Pleasantville”?
If you haven’t seen or heard about the film “Pleasantville” (url) please read up before continuing.
First of all let me make it completely clear that I am not a behavioral scientist or anything like that. I have,...
Straight Talk With Jessica Lyons
I visited the Q&A seminar with the Phoenix/Firestorm team, yesterday. It was the three most informative hours I have ever spent in Second Life. I must say it was an eyeopener for me, mostly through what was said by the very clever program...
“Drama” in Second Life
Drama: we’ve all been there, whether as its cause or victim. But what exactly is “drama? According to Urbandictionary.com, drama is “A way of relating to the world in which a person consistently overreacts to or greatly exaggerates the...
Second Life Viewers: Rage Against Technology
I live with the not unreasonable expectation that every time I do a certain thing to a machine or with software programs I should and can expect the same results.
This expectation has more often than not been proven to be false, which absolutely stuns me every...
Second Life Fauns & Satyrs
New arrivals to SL notice right away that this virtual world is populated by a variety of creatures: humans of all kinds, vampires, werewolves, fairies, demons, furries, and para-humans (human/animal hybrids). Almost anything you can dream up,...
Let’s Play Master and Servant
For a world as free as Second Life, there sure are a lot of avatars running around in collars and chains. Some of them are doing actual Master/slave play, which is part of the broader D/s (Dominance and submission) lifestyle practiced in RL...
Is Virtual the New Reality?
By Lana Cook, Popmatters.com
A Better Version of Me
My Second Life avatar walks unsteadily across the screen. She moves in stops and starts as I clumsily direct the keys. I’m new at this game, unsure what I’m supposed to do with her and...
Cherish Second Moments And The Firsts Will Come
Second Life can bet a horn of plenty of good blessings. Pardon the pun my friends but I mean it. As an admitted horn dog I came to the grid headlong intent on one thing, dirty gay sex. That was all I expected from Second Life, and at first all...
Linden Lab Must Stop Tinkering With Our Income
by Avril Korman, Search Engine Watch
I feel as if I should preface this with a warning label: Potential Controversy Ahead. But then I realized I’d have to put that on almost every column, and then I’d have to make a graphic and then...
Be A Warrior (by Doc Spad)
Reprinted with Permission
BE A WARRIOR
Like many of you, I watched the Paws Up Forever Project video on You Tube.
Earlier in the week. I watched Jamie’s blog and heard, in his own words, his thoughts and saw his torment first hand....
Cocksucker: A Rose By Any Other Name
I’ve come to muse at the fact that often the jargon and terminology in our society is either good or bad depending on who says it to who. As a kid growing up I heard adults around me using terms like cocksucker and ass kisser in the derogatory....
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Avacar’s One Sided Conversation: with Michele Bachman
Dear Michele:
You don’t even know. As you run around trying to make yourself look better in the eyes of your potential voters, you keep winding up with a little mud on your face.
When you told RightOnline activists in June that your...
Tipping Ethics – How do you feel about it?
This was a very active conversation I started on Facebook today. Thanks to each of my responders for your knowledgeable and experienced opinions.
“Avacar Bluestar - Last night was a fun one for a change – went to about...