DIGIMAG 19 - NOVEMBER 2006

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creating as background the image of the Coliseum, they have dealt with issues such as press independence, the advertisement role, the need to develop magazines specialized on fashion, architecture, design, art as well as newspapers. There were different newspapers present in SL, projects held by a single person and projects with their own editorial staffs.

are absolutely true magazines with an accurate layout such as Second Style by Celebrity Trollop, a fashion magazine, presenting collections for avatars, following and laying down trends in SL. During the meeting, Miller Coopland presented his first number of In The Grid , a new cultural magazine of Second Life with 42 pages, with interviews to artists, programmers, which is downloable for free. Many participated to the debate: there were Korbin King from Omg magazine , Hipernova Sol di Vistas on Second Life, Garret Bakalava from VXM Voodoo Estreme Magazine . And, naturally, me for Digimag!

Newspapers and magazines of Second Life have different versions, From Prim to Print�, as Ute Hicks considers his SL Business , that is to say the version as a 3D object to be glanced at, up to the PDF to download and print. The PDF versions

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