Last Week's New World Notes Posts You Don't Want to Miss

All About Emerald-Gate

• With Emerald Gone From Third Party Second Life Viewer List, Prudence Suggests Imprudence
• New World Editorial: Emeraldgate Illustrates Limitations of Trust Based Only on Second Life Avatar Names
• Linden Lab Finally Issues Statement on Emerald -- Which Now Reportedly Accounts for Nearly HALF SL's User Hours
• Emerald Contributor & Ex-Linden Karl Stiefvater Praises New Team's Response to "EmeraldGate", Keeps Head Down

Second Life News, Innovations, Analysis, & Opinion

• Losing Night: The Woman Who Abandoned Her Avatar to Save Herself, Only to Have Her Avatar Save Her (Guest Post)
• Did Neal Stephenson Say Second Life is "Pretty Much What I Imagined"? Not Exactly, Says Neal Stephenson
• Ophelia's Gaze on the Second Life of "Mad Men": The Incomparable Joan Holloway
• Tuesday Machinima: Lyric Lundquist Explores Insilico in Wireframe (And Celebrates Her Birthday This Week!)
• Grow the Metaverse By Improving Body Language and Facial Recognition Technology, Says Ex-Linden John Lester

Other World Notes/New World Gaming/Machinima

• Peter Greenaway Joins Machinima Contest Jury!
• New World Gaming: Backyard Monsters Reaches 1M Users -- 20% of Whom Don't Fight, But Only Build