Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Social Structures, Social Upheaval
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Several months after Bonnie Bots brought enormous Sturm und Drang to the Second Life community, Linden Lab has added tools for landowners to block bots from their property — and posted a warning to collectors of Second Life user data like, well, Bonnie Bots. The updated tool is "deny_bots", and as that suggests, when the…
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I am still waiting on an announcement update from the developers of Bonnie Bots, the highly controversial project that collects and publishes publicly accessible Second Life user data on the web. In the meantime, I've been wondering how to quantify all the controversy over Bonnie Bots, when other data collecting bots have garnered far less…
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Here's the latest update to Bonnie Bots, the data-hoovering bots which collect publicly available Second Life user information and publish it to the web: The website no longer has the Avatar Search function, a feature which caused the most controversy and contention among the SL community. This removal comes after the Bonnie Bots team had…
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Pictured: Tyche with one of her data-collecting bots As we watch the controversy over Bonnie Bots roil in angry comments across the Second Life media ecosystem, I've been curious about a mysterious discrepancy: Grid Survey has been using bots to collect and display Second Life sim and user data for well over 10 years. Run…
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Last night I teleported to a cozy patio with a firepit on a tiny asteroid to talk with the team of Bonnie Bots, the little Second Life user data website causing enormous controversy across the Second Life community. Since the imbroglio flared up, they have updated the site's homepage with this disclosure: Information about…
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Above: A Bonnie bot, tirelessly on bot patrol There's been lots of interesting conversation and debate spurred by my post on BonnieBots, the new website tracking genuine Second Life activity. While Bonnie's bots don't violate any Linden Lab policy that I'm aware of, the sheer amount of information that both her avatar and web-based bots…
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This is a pretty amazing map to the community-made train systems cutting across the Second Life mainland (click here for high res version, also available for free in the Marketplace), created by Rydia Lacombe, and updated from her 2021 edition. If they look longer and more complex than many real life train systems, you're right…
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As news of Queen Elizabeth's death spreads across the globe, mourners in the virtual world of Second Life have been converging into London City, a sprawling island devoted to the UK's capital. I have tried over the last hour to take photos of the impromptu memorial, but as avatars keep teleporting into London, the surroundings…
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今日も一日Today is another day#secondlife pic.twitter.com/SXYQG81gT1 — Sanny Yoshikawa🌻🌻🌻 (@sannysquirrel) August 5, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js If you were to judge Second Life only by how it's mostly depicted on Flickr or Facebook, you'd assume it's a photorealistic fashion simulator. But among the Second Life users of Japan, many of whom congregate on Twitter, Second Life is just…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Click here to teleport to a place where the birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air. That's right: There's a whole Second Life sim devoted to dream world genius David Lynch, and there's a grand 7 hour event happening there tomorrow starting at 2pm PT. (All the details here.)…
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