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In-world comic viewer

By: Tateru Nino

For those of you using the Second Life 2.0 viewer or some variant viewer with the new Shared Media support, I’ve set up an in-world comic viewer in Achlya. It’s a simple little tool, seems to work quite well, and I’m interested to know what you think.


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The humble trademark

By: Tateru Nino

Trademarks are poor misunderstood things.

Way back when, trademarks were called hallmarks, makers’ marks, earmarks and brands.

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New comic: Espionage

By: Tateru Nino

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What’s mainstream?

By: Tateru Nino

If you ask someone if something can or can’t be considered ‘mainstream’, the usual response involves numbers. User numbers, audience numbers, profits. Stuff like that.

The thing is that the idea that large audiences = mainstream is essentially fallacious. You tend to get much larger audiences for mainstream things, but not always. Something that is mainstream can have very small numbers indeed. Then we say it has ‘niche appeal’. Quite a lot of things we think of as mainstream fall into that category.

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New comic: A cunning plan

By: Tateru Nino

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My first time

By: Tateru Nino

My first time in a Second Life Welcome Area was … well, pretty much this.

In fact, so were most of my visits to the big ones, come to think of it.


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