May 1 2012

So, you might have been thinking to yourself “Gee, this blog has been a bit quieter in recent months, hasn’t it?”

Well, you’d be right to think so. It has.

The primary reason for this is that I’ve been working on a big Second Life creative project for… well, months now. Since about Christmas.

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Today, Second Life went through … well, a bad patch. Logins stopped working for many. Then they were shut off “until further notice.” The Web-site stopped working for a while, and for twelve whole hours, the system was either inaccessible, partially online or just plain unreliable.

Users were frustrated and demoralised. Scheduled events, meetings and presentations were mooted. A number of us lost expensive or difficult-to-replace content.

And that’s not actually the bad news.

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SecondLie wants you to hate cancer.

SecondLie, the premier Second Life Twitter parody account, is raising money for cancer research as a part of the broader Relay For Life campaign.

If you’re a Second Life user, click the ‘love’ button on SecondLie’s post by the end of the month, and he (and 19 others) will donate one cent each towards cancer research. That’s currently 20 cents each time someone clicks, up to a limit of 10,000 loves on the post. (UPDATE: Now 40 US cents per love)

Hating cancer requires nothing from you, other than a mouse-click. Surely, you can hate cancer enough to lift one finger.

Actually, even if you hate SecondLie more than you hate cancer, you can add your love to the post and cost him some money. So, win-win, right?


So, you say Linden Lab are a big batch of screw-ups who can’t organise an effective anniversary celebration for Second Life without messing it up? You say they’ve kept getting in the way and the way they’ve handled delicate and sensitive issues is a mess?

You think you can do better?

Now’s your chance.

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