Yesterday L.A. Times posted few advices how to keep your child safe in virtual worlds. One that is of importance here is:

Make sure your child is on an age-appropriate site. Don't let your children on sites such as Second Life unless they are old enough to handle adults on their own.

Not that we haven't got used to these, but I feel like contacting the editor about it. (more…)

In the case you haven't noticed, there was a three days SLbloggers strike that ended today. It was provoked by Linden Lab's new trademark lunacy which, have you ever doubt, had all kind of reactions, mostly negative ones. Strike itself, have you ever doubt, was controversal too. One of the posts, published during the strike was Galatea Gynoid's:

Now, normally LL can't say anything without legions of self-styled critics going out of their way to bend every possible word in the worst possible way to make it sound like something bad is occurring, and acting all alarmist to see who they can get fired up about nothing much. It is the path of the drama queen, and I got sick of it while I was still in high school, so I tend to just ignore it.

While I haven't seen anything good coming from the strike, my high school days made me staying silent during those three days. Yes, my high school thought me lazyness and not breaking the protests if I am not explicitly against them.

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SaveNetRadio.org:

On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which oversees sound recording royalties paid by Internet radio services, increased Internet radio's royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry’s future.

Owners of internet radio stations agree that it is impossible to keep broadcasting with royalities that high. Sound streams in second life are considered as internet radio too. In the case that Congress go with this proposition, many internet radio's will die, and in second life many sims will stay silent.

Please, act now. There is no much time left because 15th of June is the D-day of internet radio. Sign the petition, call your representatives, do whatever you can. Don't let the music disappears from our world!

Here is the final draft of letter to be posted on SL related websites and inworld (a single copy will also be sent to LL) beginning on Monday, April 30th. You can sign the letter at Project Open Letter's site. (more…)