For the third time in less than a year, my landlord decided to close down — apparently because of lack of time to handle the responsibilities this time, but once again I was in the house market. It took some work, but I found this place in Tropical Sands region, pre-furnished and at my price.  [...]

In case you haven’t read this already, click through to New World Notes and read this comment by Desmond Shang, the “Guvnah” of Caledon, on why the loss of regions in Second Life may be a good thing for the Grid, instead of a tale of woe, doom ‘n gloom.  I’ve wondered myself if SL [...]

After my landlord at Pandora Island decided they had to close shop, I moved to another sim and bought my first plot of ground.  That was about two months ago.  Now he’s gone out of business. (I can’t blame either of them on this; one of the things dragging on SL’s economy is the RL [...]

Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies, It’s your misfortune and none of my own. Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies, You know that Wyoming will be your new home. – Woody Guthrie, “Get Along Little Doggies” ===== A sign that all is not as we could wish yet in the RL economy:  two days ago, my landlords [...]

Those who have been around the Grid since last October will remember the uproar generated when Linden Lab announced with no fanfare that they planned to raise the purchase price on so-called “Openspace” sims.  The price would increase from $250 to $375 — an raise of 1.5 times — and nearly double the monthly maintenance [...]

Click through here for a transcript of the in-world news conference held by Linden Lab on the planned adult continent.  The transcript was provided to members of the Second Life Media Consortium group; the conference took place on our island on May 1.  Participating on the Linden side were Cyn, Jack and Ken Linden. Aside [...]

The plans for the new adult continent are proceeding apace at Linden Lab. The Big Blog announced the progress in an article published yesterday, with links to a draft of current proposals for what constitutes “Adult,” “Mature,” and “PG” content. (Adobe PDF copy of the draft document from the Knowledge Base) The key to the [...]

After I left for RL work yesterday, Governor Linden published a quickie article on the Big Blog to inform us of where the discussion over adult content changes stood.  Nothing deep here; just a distillation of where the Forum discussions started by the Lindens have traveled to, and the top concerns raised there.  According to [...]

Lots of commentary has, no doubt, been delivered already on Linden Lab’s announcement yesterday of planned “adult-content reform” for Second Life. I suspect that Residents have been looking for the next thing they can excoriate Governor Linden about; and, lacking any major crash and burn of the 1.22 viewer release (which is unlikely, considering how [...]

I’m back from my hiatus, and catching up on some news from the past week or so.  The most interesting thing is Linden Lab’s announcement that they will no longer allow large-scale subdivision of Mainland land parcels into lots of teeny-tiny microparcels (“land cutting”) for commercial reselling at inflated prices, and that they will be [...]