Tag Archives: lindenlab + governance + essay + secondlife

Chimaera

By Rheta Shan | Published: April 29, 2008

I am the most unlikely person to ever be last woman standing on a political issue. But then there are times and issues which would make anybody reconsider. Read why the Linden Lab trademark lunacy is one.

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Second Life Guess

By Rheta Shan | Published: January 22, 2008

A final round-up of the discussions on the banking ban leads to the question if the wild guesswork done by pundits (yours truly not excepted) on Linden Lab’s motivation isn’t very much reflecting the current state of Second LifeYou-Know-Where’s society.

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Linden Lab en route to Hell, at last

By Rheta Shan | Published: January 13, 2008

Linden Lab banning in-world banks might man much more to the evolution of Second LifeYou-Know-Where society than the measure in itself suggests.

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Wild, wild west 2.0

By Rheta Shan | Published: September 18, 2007

Experiencing griefing is frustrating, and seeing Linden Lab’s non-response compounds that frustration. To me, his experience made clear we have to think of Second LifeYou-Know-Where as a world, and why residents need to start building a real society.

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