Official SL Content Creation Guide On The Way
Now that the Official Guide to Second Life is out (with yours truly as one of the authors, don’tcha know), it seems Wiley has more SL books in the works. Coming up this summer is The Official Guide to...
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Nominate the Great Builds of SL
Second Life resident Forseti Svarog (aka Giff Constable of the Electric Sheep Company) has begun a search for the greatest architectural wonders of the virtual world of Second Life, which he plans to...
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Meet the SL Guide Authors Tonight in SL
Yup, we’ll be in the virtual world of Second Life this evening for a meet-the-authors event to promote the official guide to Second Life, which came out a couple of months ago and has been selling like...
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Promoting Second Life: The Official Guide
Click image for JimmyJet Fossett’s Flickr set from the event No, not the official guide to promoting Second Life. Second Life resident JimmyJet Fossett snapped a bunch of good pictures of last night’s...
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Dean Koontz and Bantam Dell Coming to SL?
It looks like the Electric Sheep Company (sponsors of this blog) are getting ready to bring authors from Random House’s Bantam Dell imprint to the virtual world of Second Life. I was poking around the...
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Bantam Dell Brings Dean Koontz to SL 3/15
If you dig the suspensful thrills of novelist Dean Koontz, then log in to the virtual world of Second Life tonight at 6:00pm SL Time (9:00pm Eastern), for the premiere of Bantam Dell‘s Authors in...
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3pointD Weekending in Berlin
I’ll be blogging as usual for the next few days, but I’ll be doing it from Berlin, where I’m headed this evening to spread the gospel of 3pointD in the form of a talk on virtual worlds I’m to give to a...
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Physical Book of Second Life Avatars On Sale
Giff Constable of the Electric Sheep Company (aka Second Life resident Forseti Svarog) has published a book of avatar portraiture from the virtual world of Second Life that’s now available not just in...
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Book of Watercolors of Second Life Now on Sale
Amy Wilson has been painting really nice watercolors illustrating her travels around the virtual world of Second Life for some time. Now, she’s published them in a 32-page book, available on Lulu.com....
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D-Briefs: Parties, Sweden, Jobs, Charity
Two stories out of Sweden in today’s D-Briefs, plus a charity in Africa, a party for a book of watercolors and one for Second Lifers in Europe, and eight job openings — all happening in or around...
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The Bridges of Second Life
Second Life resident Forseti Svarog (aka the Electric Sheep Company‘s Giff Constable) has put together a cool collection of SL screenshots showing, at last count, 46 bridges that have been built in...
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Second Life Novel Coming to Amazon.com?
Second Life resident Dalian Hansen sends word that he will soon publish ANIMA, a novel set largely in the virtual world itself. From Dalian’s description: Ben Tao is the avatar of a fired programmer...
View ArticleLudlow and Wallace on MITP Podcast
That’s Ludlow as in Peter Ludlow, who founded the Second Life Herald, and Wallace as in myself, who occasionally does some work over there. We’re interviewed on Episode #2 of the MIT Press podcast,...
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Second Life Herald Book Party, November 3
It seems like forever since we first started working on it, but at last our book about the Second Life Herald — and about the metaverse in general — is being published (in a matter of days), and we’re...
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Invest in the Entrepreneur’s Guide to SL
To add to the fun we had at our book party this weekend, Daniel Terdiman is throwing a party of his own, to celebrate the publication of his own book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Second Life. If you’re...
View ArticleCastronova’s Arden MMO Opens, Book Out
Edward Castronova’s MMO, Arden, is being released today. It’s available to play, download, and modify as you wish. His new book, Exodus to the Virtual World, is also now available. I’ve been flipping...
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