At one time, these figures, who were tied into a network of professors and journalists outside of SL who covered games and worlds critically, formed a very important body of thinkers.
We have no intelligentsia like that in SL now. Sklar (Peter Ludlow) wrote a whole book about the Herald, which I myself find tendentious, but I appreciate its role. The comments were the main place outside of these forums to discuss the burning issues of SL. If it adapted the persona of a tabloid and covered picaresque figures like BigJohn Slade, that added to its charm. The Herald broke many important stories, for example I recall one I wrote that CNET covered which was about Philip calling in the FBI finally to investigate recurring crashes of the entire grid, when SL would be down for days.
Certainly it's independent from the "state," in this case a game company and a virtual world company.
#Second life secrets free#
Of course it was independent, and dependent not only on Sklar - although it's a curious notion of yours that if one publisher decides to sponsor a newspaper, that newspaper now isn't "independent" - when of course it is, and it is the plurality of such independent media outlets that makes up a free press. Urizenus Sklar, a professor of linguistics in RL, was the founder, but there were other editors, including Pixeleen Mistral, who in real life invented Gopher and worked on Croquet, and Mark Wallace, a writer and early journalist of the Metaverse. The Alphaville Herald began with the Sims Online in about 2000 and switched over to Second Life in about 2004 when a group of us migrated from TSO to SL. But if there was ever a time when the Herald had anything much worthwhile to say, it was well before I was engaging with it in 2009 and after.Īnd it was hardly "independent": it was always about Sklar and his cyberlibertarian ideology. I'll agree that it would be good if there were an independent and intelligently critical source for news and analysis in SL. They were griefers posing as edgy "hacktivists." Of course they griefed you - and wrote about it afterwards.
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