New site design
It’s been quite a while since this website has had a facelift, so we’re pleased to unveil the new one. It hopefully makes finding key subject areas a little easier and provides a greater range of information within easy reach. This is the fourth significant change in the site since its inception and it probably [...]
Competition: win an ‘Avatar Dog’ t-shirt
Its been a few months since we’ve run a reader’s competition, so lets get one underway.
This one’s simple: your choice of any t-shirt from the Avatar Dog range of t-shirts. To go in the draw, all you need to do is post a comment below, with the following information:
1. A favorite virtual world-related website and [...]
Introducing: Tateru Nino
It’s an understatement to say I’m really pleased to announce a further addition to the writing team at The Metaverse Journal.
Tateru Nino is a significant addition too – she’s one of the first Second Life writers I read and she was incredibly supportive of our initial efforts when we started in 2006. It’s also [...]
Avatar Dog T-Shirts: Victorian Bushfire fundraiser
Although there’s no shortage of fundraisers going on for the ongoing bushfire tragedy in Victoria, we want to do our own little bit to help.
For February and March, 100% of profits from the sales of the t-shirt range will go to the Red Cross Bushfire appeal. We’ve kick-started things with a donation and it’d [...]
Announcing: Avatar Dog t-shirts
I’m really thrilled to announce we’ve got some t-shirts for sale. The primary purpose of the t-shirts is to raise money for Kiva, our charity of choice. Kiva provide funds to small businesses in developing countries and to date well over 57 million dollars have been lent, with over 97% of that repaid so that [...]
Metaverse Aid – join the team
Back in October 2007, this site started generating a positive cash flow. After covering all costs, the decision was made to put excess funds to good use. Kiva was chosen primarily for its brilliant model of helping people help themselves, but there was also the tie-in of Kiva having a Second Life presence.
Since then, [...]
Competition winners: ‘The Unofficial Second Life Building Guide’
Over the past fortnight we’ve run a competition, with five copies of The Unofficial Second Life Building Guide.
Twenty-one people entered, with some excellent suggestions of new builds in Second Life. Using a random number generator, I’m pleased to announce that the five winners are:
Cary
Alberik Rotaru
KerryJ
Kim Flintoff
Rayn Juran
Thanks to Killer Guides for the prize of five [...]
