Posts tagged teen-second-life 
The Virtual Whirl: Questions from the virtual mailbag
This week, in The Virtual Whirl, we're going to take a selection of reader questions that we've received in comments and in the virtual mailbag and do our best to offer up some useful answers. Join us as we whirl through the mail. ...
MMO Family: Virtual worlds for kids
MMO Family is your resource for leveling a gaming-specced family ... From tips on balancing gaming with family life to finding age-appropriate niches for every family member, MMO Family offers you advice on MMO gaming of the family, by the family and for the family. Nestling somewhere in between ...
Rosedale sparks speculations
Newly minted Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon has recently been talking about somehow incorporating Teen Second Life into the broader Second Life environment, though no details or plans have yet emerged on how that would happen. At a Metanomics session on Monday, Lab chairman and founder Philip Rosedale ...
Where is Second Life going?
Where is it all going? With an MMOG you already know: Content updates, free and paid expansions, and so forth. A broadening and sometimes also a deepening of the game experience. Virtual environments tend to be a bit hazier, largely supported by microtransactions they may include game-elements ...
Ghetto grid: Katharine Berry slams Lab's negligence
Famous Teen Second Life user Katharine Berry has spoken out on conditions in Linden Lab's Teen Grid. While, of course, there are rules about content and conduct, they're neither well-followed, says Berry, nor well-enforced. 'Of course, these rules are completely ignored ... Once upon a time, in ...
Linden Lab whacks German teens?
According to Ziggy Moonflower (Michael Lange) from Metaversa, Linden Lab has killed nearly 70% of the Teen Second Life accounts belonging to German teens, for unspecified 'security issues'. Some of those teens will doubtless be making new accounts to protest and resume participation, while others ...
Kirk says children at risk in Second Life
The Chicago Tribune is carrying a story about Congressional Representative Mark Kirk of the district of Illinois. Kirk alleges that Second Life "is a risk for children, who could be sexually exploited" and has written a letter to the US Federal Trade Commission, urging them to issue a consumer alert ...
Cinemassively: Global Kids Kofi Annan Simulcast to four different virtual worlds
Global Kids has been quite busy with their activities this year! They recently streamed Kofi Annan receiving the MacArthur Foundation's first International Justice Award. Not only was this event special and meaningful in the first place, but it was also fairly unique in how far it reached. The ...
Reveal your virtual life - on MTV
MTV are looking for virtual worlders for their (perhaps not entirely appropriately named - but people still get the Web mixed up with the Internet) "I Live Another Life on the Web" part of MTV's True Life. Not just any virtual worlders, either. Ones who are willing to put their real selves on ...
