The Media Looks At Second Life: Ars Technica and Atlantic Monthly Write About The Grid

So what comes to mind when it comes to Second Life getting the attention of the media? Some feel what's been written about it since it's heyday has been little more than stories about the seedy side of the Grid. Recently, Samuel Axon of Ars Technica, a technology online publication, came back to Second Life after being out for a few years. Also, Lesile Jamison is writing a story about the virtual world for Atlantic Monthly. So what did they have to say about the place?

Read more in Extra.

Second Life Enquirer Turns 12

A couple days ago on May 9, The publication Second Life Enquirer celebrated their twelfth anniversary. It was also the rezzday of it's founder and owner Lanai Jarrico. Having gotten her start in the now closed "The Sims Online" virtual world, she came to Second Life to write about goings on here. In a 2015 interview, she described her paper as being more entertainment-oriented while the Newser was more news-focused.

Rather than being the arch-rivals the SL Herald and the SL Newspaper were, the two publications have more or less cooperated, such as when Lanai requested that yours truly take a picture of her at a 2014 jail and bail and let me make a cartoon out of it, and today's article on Net Neutrality being on the line.

No doubt she and her writers will be continuing for a while.

Happy Anniversary SL Enquirer

Bixyl Shuftan