Where Have You Been? S05E03 — Linden Lab Trust & Security Initiative

June 14, 2025   Programming

Some­thing impor­tant was released from Lin­den Lab in the last weeks of May, and it is some­thing that we at VCRa­dio feel strong­ly about, and these last weeks of June lead­ing up to, and includ­ing, the open­ing of SL22B are a per­fect time to high­light this. After all, it does not mat­ter how inter­est­ing a des­ti­na­tion is if you don’t exer­cise best prac­tices in cyber safe­ty, any­where on the grid is poten­tial­ly a threat.

We are refer­ring to the SecondLife.com blog entry from May 23rd enti­tled “Your Account, Your World, Keep it Safe.” VCRa­dio was invit­ed to a meet­ing with The Lab along with oth­er vlog­gers, blog­gers, and Sl Influ­encers where Lin­den Lab Exec­u­tive Chair­man Brad Ober­wa­ger explained the cir­cum­stances lead­ing up to this new ini­tia­tive and encour­aged that the word be spread to the res­i­dent com­mu­ni­ty — cyber secu­ri­ty is impor­tant, crit­i­cal­ly so, and if res­i­dents engage in a few best prac­tices, they can help con­tra­vene the efforts of peo­ple with ill intent, or as Ober­wa­ger called them “bad actors.”

We felt so strong­ly about it that we cre­at­ed a Pub­lic Ser­vice Announce­ment which now runs reg­u­lar­ly on VCRa­dio. Sec­ond Life is a com­mu­ni­ty: its strength and secu­ri­ty is a respon­si­bil­i­ty that we all share. Lin­den Lab has recent­ly expand­ed their Trust & Safe­ty team, ded­i­cat­ed to pro­tect­ing your accounts and inves­ti­gat­ing abuse more quick­ly and thor­ough­ly than ever before. Yet it’s impor­tant for res­i­dents to do their part and use good judge­ment, and maybe even a bit of cau­tion in order to keep them­selves, their Lin­den Dol­lars, and their per­son­al infor­ma­tion secure.

This episode of WYB dis­cuss­es online and in-world safe­ty and secu­ri­ty, includ­ing hints and tips to help you stay secure. We cov­er such top­ics as pass­words, mul­ti-fac­tor autho­riza­tion (MFA), keep­ing login details to your­self, and where it’s safe to buy or sell L$ — and more.

This show will air at noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific, on June 14, 18, 21, 25, 28, and July 2.

And as promised in the show, here are some use­ful links cov­er­ing online secu­ri­ty and relat­ed topics.

“Your Account, Your World, Keep it Safe” by Lin­den Lab
https://community.secondlife.com/news/featured-news/your-account-your-world-keep-it-safe-r11193/

“Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Best Prac­tices” by CISA.gov
https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cybersecurity-best-practices

“Main­tain Good Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Habits: by Mor­gan Stanley
https://www.morganstanley.com/articles/personal-cybersecurity

“Top 10 Secure Com­put­ing Tips” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Berkeley
https://security.berkeley.edu/resources/best-practices-how-to-articles/top-10-secure-computing-tips

Images for this episode — Hand Print Logo of SL: Omid­yar — General

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Frankenstein Is Coming! June 6 & 13!

June 2, 2025   Programming

Mark your Cal­en­dar: Fri­day June 6th and 13th at 2pm SLT/Pacific, 10pm in the UK — Parts One and Two (respec­tive­ly) of the Sean­chai Library adap­ta­tion of Mary Shel­ley’s classic!

Fea­tur­ing Shan­don Lor­ing, Zan­der Greene, Cor­wyn Allen, Da5id Abbot, Elrik Mer­lin and Cale­do­nia Skytower.

Com­ing soon to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio!

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First Sundays: Music On A Theme

May 30, 2025   Programming

Sun­day after­noons! One of the best times of the week to relax, share time with friends and fam­i­ly, and reward your­self for suc­cess­ful­ly tra­vers­ing anoth­er week.

At Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, we believe Sun­day after­noons are the per­fect time to treat your­self to some­thing spe­cial. That’s why we invite you to join us at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time on the First Sun­day after­noon of each month as we present a dif­fer­ent musi­cal treat: one hour of music on a theme. It could be any­thing from new age music, orches­tral clas­sics, sound­tracks, or music cel­e­brat­ing a par­tic­u­lar cul­ture. First Sun­days may even broad­cast from a live event we present in Sec­ond Life. You’ll nev­er know unless you tune in.

Won­der­ing what the next musi­cal treat will be? Fol­low us on Prim­feed, Face­book, and this web site, and join the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio group in-world to stay up-to-date on sta­tion news and programming.

“First Sun­days” at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time, the first Sun­day of each month. It’s a musi­cal treat for your ears — right here on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio.

 

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Where Have You Been? S05E02 — Raglan Shire Art Walk

May 24, 2025   Programming

In the sec­ond pro­gramme of our new sea­son, we pay a vis­it to an event that, while quite well-known, is deserv­ing of more atten­tion: the Raglan Shire Art Walk. This pro­gramme will air on Sat­ur­days and Wednes­days until June 11th, at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time.

And don’t miss “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” — pre­sent­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton: the series about the machines that make our civ­i­liza­tion run and the peo­ple whose inge­nu­ity cre­at­ed them. The pro­gramme is broad­cast every 4 hours from 4am Pacif­ic on Wednes­days and Saturdays.

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Where Have You Been? S05E01 — Back to Where We Began

May 2, 2025   Programming

We are pleased to announce the start of a new sea­son — Sea­son 5 — of our twice-month­ly series where we report on things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life grid. We are cel­e­brat­ing the open­ing of the new sea­son by going back to the begin­ning — where we start­ed with Sea­son 01, Episode 01 — the Sec­ond Life Endow­ment for the Arts known as the “SLEA.” This pro­gramme will air on Sat­ur­days and Wednes­days until May 21st, at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time.

And don’t miss “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” — pre­sent­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton: the series about the machines that make our civ­i­liza­tion run and the peo­ple whose inge­nu­ity cre­at­ed them. The pro­gramme is broad­cast every 4 hours from 4am Pacif­ic on Wednes­days and Saturdays.

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Entente Cordiale

April 9, 2025   Programming

Today we are pleased to present a selec­tion of clas­si­cal music from Britain and France.

In fact the empha­sis is some­what more on the French, but we’ll be hear­ing from a num­ber of British com­posers such as Elgar, Vaugh­an Williams and of course Fred­er­ic Delius, who, while born in Eng­land, spent the lat­ter part of his life across the Channel.

From the French side we will be fea­tur­ing Poulenc, Fau­ré, Chopin (who was Pol­ish born but became a French cit­i­zen) Debussy, Rav­el and Berlioz, with per­for­mances both tra­di­tion­al and not so.

We also have a selec­tion of “cross-chan­nel” pieces in a some­what lighter vein.

Also today, don’t miss “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” — pre­sent­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton: the series about the machines that make our civ­i­liza­tion run and the peo­ple whose inge­nu­ity cre­at­ed them. The pro­gramme is broad­cast every 4 hours from 4am Pacific.

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Madonna In A Green Velvet Chair

April 4, 2025   Programming

Tune in on Fri­day for the lat­est episode of our excit­ing 5‑part radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: “Madon­na In A Green Vel­vet Chair” - at noon or 4pm Pacific/SLT every Fri­day! In which the Madon­na Vampyra — of The Fourth Tow­er of Inver­ness — is trans­port­ed by a mys­te­ri­ous piece of furniture…

Now read on…

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Celtic Moods

April 2, 2025   Programming

Today’s pro­gramme takes a look at the expan­sion of Celtic music and themes into sev­er­al dif­fer­ent gen­res of music.

Here we are fea­tur­ing musi­cians and music that start from the Celtic tra­di­tion and take it for­ward into oth­er realms, from Joanie Mad­den to Mendelssohn to Ger­al­do and his Orches­tra; from thun­der­ous­ly spec­tac­u­lar orches­tral arrange­ments (you’ll hear sev­er­al of those today) in the wake of River­dance, to inspir­ing music for a small Celtic ensem­ble and organ, played in the largest Goth­ic space in the world.

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The Early Music Show

March 5, 2025   Programming

Tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio today for a pro­gramme of Ear­ly Music – fea­tur­ing music of the High Renais­sance, with con­tri­bu­tions from France, Spain, Eng­land and Ger­many. There are also some mod­ern inter­pre­ta­tions thrown in for good measure.

Don’t miss Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity every four hours from mid­day UK time / 4am Pacific.

“Where Have You Been?” — our series on things to do and places to vis­it across the Sec­ond Life Grid, is cur­rent­ly on hia­tus and returns shortly.

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Hits In Hi-Fi

March 1, 2025   Programming

Today we’ll take a nos­tal­gic jour­ney back to the 1960s and beyond, when music was on vinyl and home stereo was new and excit­ing­ly futur­is­tic… with Hits In Hi-Fi.

In the ear­ly days of stereo, a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of albums were released that were designed espe­cial­ly to show off the won­ders of this new way of pre­sent­ing musi­cal enter­tain­ment. Sounds “ping-ponged” across the stereo sound­stage; instru­ments appeared hard on one side and then hard on the oth­er… and there were a lot of space ref­er­ences, bloops and bleeps start­ing and end­ing the pieces — and once the Moog Syn­the­sis­er became avail­able, that was includ­ed in the mix too.

A selec­tion of these albums forms the core of our music today. Often the tracks con­sist of instru­men­tal arrange­ments of pop­u­lar songs, but there are also plen­ty of orig­i­nal tunes too.

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