Yeah, it’s a hard life as a writer.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, a blog is always hungry for the next article; if you don’t keep it fed, it goes stale, and worse (shudder) — it gets ignored by readers. That isn’t allowed to happen, except during the odd vacation, holiday [...]

I recently passed the four-year mark in writing this blog, and I’m still going at it.  That’s a gratifying thing, considering that the last blog I wrote, focusing on RL, I lost interest in after three years, and shut it down a few months after the fourth anniversary.  Here in Second Life, I still find [...]

  While I was not able to make the preview of this year’s BURN2, others have.  Inara Pey has an in-depth run-through of what the playa will look like, complete with photos, at her blog. BURN2 opens to the public on October 1.  The Burning of the Man and Burning of the Temple events are [...]

The ever-gracious and ever-lovely Strawberry Singh has published a starter guide for Second Life newbies at her blog.  It’s a very useful item for someone trying to get their feet under them, and could even offer a few tips for us oldsters of 3 or more years’ duration in world (grin). Thanks to New World [...]

This new trick is available in the latest beta of Firestorm as well as a dev of the Linden viewer. Gidge links in her article to the original by evie, and then pleads for something also very useful — designers (at least some of them) using a single abbreviation “convention” when naming their items…. ===== [...]

Around the Grid has been publishing for 3 1/2 years now, and I’ve accumulated a ton of links that I had in my blogroll.  However, considering the ease of fall out and fall in to Second Life, I suspected today that a lot of those links were either changed, or just plain dead.  So you [...]

One reason many of us got into Second Life in the first place was for the chance to explore. It was only afterwards that we became contaminated with the tendency toward conspicuous consumption (grin). Cajsa Lilliehook of It’s Only Fashion still does an occasional turn inside a photosphere; but these days, she’s more inclined to [...]

Yes, there is another Harper in Second Life. Before you go running screaming into the night, you may rest assured that Harper Beresford is nothing like me (for which there are probably many in the virtual world who are giving much thanks).  In fact, there are a few other Harpers back and forth on the [...]

Some late news: Best of Second Life magazine has announced their nominees for the 2011 BOSL Awards at their blog.  There’s a lot of great talent in the 21 categories, such as Bax Coen in Best Shoe Designer; Di Hoorenbeek in Best Poses; and Skip Staheli and Strawberry Singh, both up for Best Photographer.  Take [...]

If you’re interested in the recent closure of the Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum, you might want to show up at this event. Read through to Prim Perfect‘s full article to learn more. UPDATE, December 7, 9:00 a.m: The discussion is now up on Treet TV (57 minutes). ===== Join us in our Northpoint studio [...]