The Perils of Premium Membership

Reading about Delinda Dryssen’s problems with her permium membership billing reminded me how fragile Second Life premium memberships are. And how hazardous. Any premium member is just one billing problem away from lockout from the grid.
Even scarier, though, is that if something happens and you’re unable to pay your premium membership for a length of [...]

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Cover charges for virtual music events: Fact or Fiction?

Charging cover for live music events is back on the radar again. Maybe it never really went away, but Mankind Tracer’s new cover charge system seems to be bringing this back into discussion again. I have friends in the live music community who are performers, venue owners, and consumers, and I think everyone has been [...]

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Merging Teen and Main Grids?

On yesterday’s Metanomics show, Philip Linden mentioned the possibility of a merge between the main and teen grids. He said:
Generally, I think that the future of Second Life needs to be one where people of all ages can use Second Life together, and that’s the direction that we’re taking in our planning and our work. [...]

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PhotoHunt – January 14

I have only been participating in the weekly  PhotoHunt since December, so I didn’t realize at first that last night was the biggest turnout ever. Not until we overran the PhotoHunt contest board and it ended up broken for voting, anyhow. It’s great to see an event like the PhotoHunt growing. It’s rapidly becoming a [...]

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Holiday Over

I didn’t grow up celebrating Christmas, but the past ten years or so, I have put up a tree because it’s beautiful and festive.
Three years ago, I spent Christmas night sitting up with my cat Cyrano, and he died the next morning. Now, I take down the tree on December 26, and I remember.

Holiday’s over. [...]

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Merry Christmas

Wishing you all the magic and wonder of the season.

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First Candle

I’m not going to pretend to remember all the stuff my Jewish grandmother would like for me to have remembered. I also didn’t marry a Nice Jewish Boy. But I do remember enough to know that it’s time to wish all of my friends who celebrate it a happy Hanukkah.

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Good News for Sailors

I should preface anything I say here by saying that yes, I have a sailboat in Second Life. Anyone who has visited Harbour has seen it tied up at the dock.

Regardless of what’s sitting at my dock, I don’t really consider myself part of the sailing community. This is, in large part, because I totally [...]

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Hunting for Photos

I participated in my first Photohunt last night. A Photohunt is a venture where a group is given a location (or, in the case of last night, a selection of locations) and given 60 minutes to bring back their best snapshot from that location. No photo manipulation, just the 4:3 aspect snapshot you took, so [...]

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First Snow

While good little avatars slept all snug in their beds, it seems to have snowed in Harbour.
I thought about covering the whole island in a uniform layer of snow, but I decided against it when I realized how many green trees are in the region. That’s a lot of trees to winterize! So only the [...]

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