General

To quote them:

Here be GrieferWiki, where griefers and trolls can amass valuable information and scripts to aid other griefers and trolls. If you want to add an article, put the desired article name in search, click go, then click the edit button on the next page.

This makes the intention of the side pretty clear, hu? There are some scripts online to use for various attacks, if they work - who knows. But taking a closer look at this site, if it is growing in the future, could be a valuable source of information about how a griefer ticks and what he's doing how.

Disclaimer: I don't endorse or like griefers and their doings.

Second Life is a mess today. Inventory is not loading or only loading slowly, teleports are mostly broken, money not loading, and the map is not loading, too. 

They are over it for already more than 10 hours and it is still unusable. It's a frigging mess. This is the worst case of SL problems since months. Oh, and I forgot, friends lists not loading either, instant messages not always working and so on and on... if you want to spend time in Second Life, better do it after those problems are solved. Right now it's unusable. Period.

It seems the Vista support of Second Life is nearly ready and well. Well, quite a good thing for all the people out there who are using that operating system. 

Oh, and while we are talking about Vista: the CEO of Acer, Gianfranci Lanci, is disappointed with Vista. He's telling that the expectations they had with the launch of Vista have not met at all. On the contrary, many customers of Acer are asking for Windows XP instead, especially in the business field. One of the main problems according to Lanci has been that Vista was still not 100% stable at its launch and he doesn't expect that to change in the rest of 2007 at all.

I can only agree on that. I know many avatars, male and female, that are happily married in real life (at least they say so) and are having relationships or at least casual relationships with other avatars, that also very often involve sex. Plain and simpe.

Many of them don't have a problem with that, but some of them must hide there hobby from their RL partner, because if (s)he finds out, they are going for big trouble and they know it. Others are letting their partners know and (s)he has no problem with it whatsoever.

I guess, it's depending on the relationship and on the trust, other's are saying: it's better only happening in the virtual world than ruining my real life with a real affaire. But of course, when emotions are running to deep, even SL can break up a RL relationship. People just like to betray themselves, they always do.

In reality Corsica belongs to France, but the inhabitants of it are not happy with that and still many consider the French people as occupants. So now I wonder if the now defunct SLAA and its followers are going to put their headquarters there and are trying to battle LL from there, then. This would be quite ironic.

Another interesting profile, sums up the persistant problems:

Please LL fix SL so I can:
teleport without having butt fur
Rez without thinking I live in the land of gray
And Give me just 1 L for every crash report so I can be rich

Found in someones profile:

IF YOU ARE READING MY PROFILE, YOU HAVE ENTERED THE NO DRAMA ZONE!  I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR DRAMA WITH YOU OR YOUR SL BABY'S MAMA. LOL

and on the 1st life tab:

I HAVE NOT HAD A REAL LIFE SINCE I JOINED SECOND  LIFE.

SO, I WILL NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT MY REAL LIFE!

Some of his points and views are:

• from a creative point of view he's a god. He has been creating a virtual world, which is undergoing its own evolution right now. Humans are building things, communities, are making things better. He beliefs that humans are good and that therefore SL is a good world.
• LL is going to work with local governments, if needed, in legal cases. The best police though is the cleaning force of the community itself.
• No news about age verification, just that's it still on the cooker.
• Many companies are having wrong assumptions about SL and therefore no success. Even if only 10% of all registered residents are playing regularly, that's still a great number, because that's the number big companies like eBay started with.
• Second Life is often economically overrated.
• Why should companies still go into SL? Because it is a big marketing testfield for them.
• If someone wants to have economic success in world, he should use the multimedia features of the world and provide a valuable service for the community.
• Voice is coming, it's done, when it's done. The user interface is being worked on, too.
• The big vision behind SL is some kind of standardized 3d internet.

Well, that's about it, not really new points in it, anyway. The question for me is, if Second Life is really some kind of community or not.

If so, generating value out of the community can be a difficult kind of beast, because often what the community wants is not always what the company wants or is allowed to do by law. For example, the success of Youtube is founded on massive copyright violations, because that's what the community wants, easy access to video clips.

If Google for example really is starting to make Youtube lawful, the community just would find a new service to get their thing and leave Youtube behind. That's the problem with communities.

And some of the steps that LL is going to do in the next time have the potential to alienate great parts of the community, if there is such one thing. And if the alienation is big enough, we could expect to see a big player migration to some other places. That's why opening up their server could still make sense to them, because then people could just host their own thing and LL would not be liable for it, anymore, as it is in some countries still at the moment, and the community would like that step, too.