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First Step into Home Decoration

Chou Skinstad — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:43:10 +0000

There is always a dilemma with news and good tips. Should you wisely keep them to yourself, or should you try and tell everyone you know so they can enjoy the tip, take part into what’s new and good too?

*whispers* Have you heard what Jennaa Loire started recently?

Teleport to SL House & Garden centre, and see for yourself. The greeting card will explain everything. Jennaa has opened THE home for home decoration passionates. Chose where you’d like to sit and talk with other “decoristas” (sorry guys, just made that one up, all complaints should be directed to my mailbox), the café, where she wisely rezzed the cat and the bird cage at a reasonable distance one from the other, stools, sofas, everything for your comfort, OR the “resource room”, somewhere between the internet café, the bloggers corner, and the media room.

If this was all, Jennaa’s idea would just be another sweet looking café where some of us can meet. But…

By joining the group, you are granted building privilege to rezz or build your sets, take your pictures, with a prim allowance of 2400 prims!!!!. And because our excitation wouldn’t be complete without a few little presents and new ideas, group notices come and inform you of shops new products and presents.

Like most of us, I seriously lack group space, but… well i did clear one to get that group in my list. One group I’m just not about to remove for sure. Thanks a lot Jennaa!!!!

*** Visit SL Home and Garden Center ***

Gallery Event: Panthers on January 29, presenting Cala Rossini

Chou Skinstad — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:58:44 +0000

The Uncover blog is proud to relay the news of some of the best art events on the Grid.

Thank you Zizzy Umaga for letting us know of the coming exhibition at Panthers Gallery on January 29.

** Opening event: friday 29^th january 2010, 01:00 pm PST (CET 22:00h)

The artist featured will be Cala Rossini

Location: slurl.com/secondlife/Ocean%20Ridge/40/215/1001

DJ´s: ARNAUD Mureaux and Tuan Quan

Internet Censorship: It is time to worry

Maryna Wind — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:46:47 +0000

Appearance of the World Wide Web was the hope for freedom of speech. It was hope for a brighter future where people around the world can communicate and share without limits.

But what can you see on this map? Not every country has this freedom. My friends live in one of such black-holes zones: Internet traffic is controlled; emails fail; news are filtered; and lots of sites are unreachable.

At some point nobody is surprised when it happens in China or Russia.

But is Australia going to be next?

Show your support for Aussies during the ‘Australian Internet Blackout’ anti-censorship campaign by Moggs Oceanlane

“The Australian Government is planning to put the proposal regarding centralised internet filtering (read censorship) through Parliment in 2010. This will put Australia in an elite club with China, Iran and Saudi Arabia – countries that already have centralised Internet Filtering - scary huh? (and you know, we are meant to live in a democracy!!).

The list of censored/filters sites will include “unclassified content” – but there are no indications that a list of what is being filtered/censored will be disclosed to the public – they’ll just have to find out as it happens. The filtering will not only limit what can be accessed online but, as indicated by the testing that has already taken place, will significantly slow down the Australian broadband network. This week there the “Great Australian Internet Blackout” campaign in running to raise awareness in the media of this issue – many Australians still have no idea of the Governments plans.

So what can you do to show your support?

black out your online profile pictures (overlay your profile pics with a black layer) and display the #nocleanfeed text.
What will this do? It will hopefully help raise awareness in the media and amongst the general population who still haven’t even realised this is now a very real possibility. New Zealand carried out a blackout campaign which was quite effective, Australia hopes to do the same.

Inform your friends via your social networks – if you tag your blogs or twitter posts use the tags nocleanfeed and if you wish, openinternet

There’s a petition you can sign – and yeah, it’s not some shonky ‘net petition – it’s run by the Electronic Frontiers association who are very credible when it comes to online and digital rights

and of course, you can write letters and more for a good list see the EFA what you can do to help list; the great australian internet blackout website and the nocleanfeed.com website.

Here are some of the key questions that many Australian citizens have been asking since last year (if not before) and would like answered. No satisfactory answers – if any – from the Goverment.”

Take an action and support Australia: Say NO to Australian Government, because you never know if your country is going to be next.

Uncover Magazine 1st anniversary

Maryna Wind — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:32:05 +0000

September 26, 2008 the first issue of Uncover Magazine was published in-world.
I remember how nervous I was that day. There were other magazines out there, but mostly about fashion and we wanted to show more of Second Life. We really wanted to have quality content.
We evolved from one language to three, from in-world publication to issuu.com publication only, from 50 members in our flickr group to over 800 and who knows what kind of transformations are waiting for us.
On the way we got a lot of positive comments: about presentation of articles, about texts we wrote, about going beyond sl fashion, about small number of ads per issue. We don’t publish each month as some other magazines do. First of all, we think that creativity needs time, secondly running international editions is quite a challenge. Each issue we celebrated with a party and those were great, think of the latest in Insilico.

I would like to thank all who ever contributed to our publication, those who reads and supports us and of course members of our Flickr group.
I hardly can name all people involved, but today I’d like to say a special thank you to
Imogen Miklos, Kristi Maurer and MichaelJ Rossini who gave a bright start to Uncover.
I also would like to thank Prad Prathivi for support and contribution during the past year.
And I would like to thank Chou Skinstad for all she’s done for the magazine and very often those were impossible things

Sincerely,
Maryna Wind