Second Opinion was the official newsletter of Second Life that most likely began in 2002, and continued until 2007. Its archives were removed from the Second Life web site, but the Wayback Machine captured many of them.
| Volume 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Issue | Newsletter | |
| 6 | April 1, 2003 | Wedding: Lynnix Muse and Charlie Omega; Game: Super Lag Ball; Featured Resident: Xavier VonLenard; Clothing and skin templates introduced |
| 7 | April 24, 2003 | Public beta; Phaylen Fairchild's Alice game; Featured Resident: Dave Zeeman; themed sims; Rizal sports; Misnomer Jones and Wednesday Grimm make a burger bazooka |
| 8 | July 9, 2003 | SL goes live; Time capsule; new Olive sandbox; Alien blimp abductions |
| 9 | August 5, 2003 | Aircraft; Grid and economy statistics; D&D Dogs; Fall fashions; Affiliate program |
| 10 | September 9, 2003 | Burning Life; Machinima and SL Movie Contest; Lee Linden and SL sports at Rizal; Featured Resident: Hikaru Yamamoto |
| 11 | October 22, 2003 | SL 1.1 and Telehubs; LindenWorld park; Cory Doctorow visits; Featured Resident: Washu Zebrastripe; Evie Fairchild's vacation resort |
| 12 | May 15, 2004 | Top 10 reasons to join SL: Clothing optional parties, inworld instruments, sports, terraforming, erotic poetry, GOM, offline IM, XML-RPC, vehicles, $9.95/month |
| Volume 2 | ||
| Issue | Newsletter | |
| 5 | July 28, 2004 | Snow sims introduced; New Moves for a New World features user animation uploads; SL Game Developer’s Competition |
| 6 | September 7, 2004 | Prim Attack game; Live Help introduced; New mainland regions; Real life political campaigns |
| 7 | October 15, 2004 | Referral program promotion |
| 8 | October 28, 2004 | Linden Lab gets capital from Omidyar and Benchmark, Bill Gurley enters; Fall fashion; Classified highlights; more US real life electioneering; outside blog links |
| 9 | November 24, 2004 | SL for Mac OS X out of beta; Games highlight; yet more electioneering |
| 10 | December 20, 2004 | Winter Festival; SL Exchange; Dark Life RPG |
| Volume 3 | ||
| Issue | Newsletter | |
| 1 | January 19, 2005 | Bedazzle's Chinatown; Dark Life update; Linden Lab at GDC 2005; MMOPRPG.com promotion |
| 2 | March 3, 2005 | Tringo; More GDC; Game SLave wiki; Chinatown goes live |
| 3 | April 1, 2005 | Featured Resident: Chip Midnight; Cristiano Midnight's Snapzilla; Version 1.6 and parcel media; GDC wrap up |
| 4 | May 5, 2005 | Private detectives in world; Numbakulla adventure game; Animation upload how-to |
| 5 | June 7, 2005 | Version 1.7 with integrated web browser; Hair promotion; Cory on hiring at LL |
| 6 | July 7, 2005 | SL2B and free basic account promotion; Video Linden simulcasts; Cory Doctorow makes another visit |
| 7 | August 17, 2005 | Teen Second Life opens; Referral program; SL Game Developer Contest '05 |
| 8 | September 20, 2005 | missing from archive |
| 9 | October 26, 2005 | More on 1.7; First SLCC in New York; Halloween events; Thomas P.M. Barnett visits; Referral pot sweetened; Trailer contest |
| 2006 | ||
| February 15, 2006 | Linden Lab arts fellowship; Name Dropping: Toy LaFollette, Tateru Nino; Banning procedure and blotter; How to make a HUD; LL defends early policy on "Impeach Bush" signs | |
| March 22, 2006 | Teen Second Life anniversary; Marvin for H2G2 film prototyped in SL; Name Dropping: The Sojourner, Xandi Mars, Michael Martinez; 'Intolerance' in Community Standards; Inventory management; Defending stipend reductions; Letters | |
| April 22, 2006 | Radio Linden launch; Teen island owners; Name Dropping: Travis Lambert, [umar Morgan, Mera Pixel; 'Indecency' in Community Standards; Eventful; defending end of Dwell event, and rating incentives | |
| May 23, 2006 | Third anniversary; Fellowship winners; Teen events; Name Dropping: Seronis Zagato, Sara Bachman; Regina Spektor visits; 'Harassment' in Community Standards; Low prim building tips; Second Life Views launched; Letters | |
| June 24, 2006 | SLCC 2006; San Jose Museum of Art calls for virtual works; Teen education; Name Drpping: Selaras Partridge, Ginny Gremlin; American Apparel in SL; 'Assault' in Community Standards; Machinima tips; defending free anonymous accounts | |
| July 25, 2006 | Movie trailer contest; Relay for Life; Teen Grid Fly-over; Name Dropping: Angel Fluffy, SL3B thanks; Second Life Developer University; 'Disturbing the peace' in Community Standards; Version 1.11 and snapshot preview; In-word resident press | |
| September 26, 2006 | Movie trailer winners; Developer resources; Featured Resident: Ming Chen of TSL; Name Dropping: in world groups; AL as real life architecture tool; 'Disclosure' in Community Standards; Tips: miscellaneous viewer features; defending the closure of SL forums; Letters | |
| October 27, 2006 | Burning Life; Call for international volunteers; Teen SL tour continued; Name Dropping: Effsey Nelson, Jason Zeno, GoAngel Sonic, Lola North; Neo-Realms Fishing; Alts and griefing; Account security; Compromised grid passwords and database | |
| November 27, 2006 | In world hunger campaign; TSL highlights; Name Dropping; Scarlett Bessie; Jnana in SL; Support changes; Snapshot tips; More on support changes | |
| December 11, 2006 | Winter festival; TSL highlight; Name Dropping: Aura Lily, Pantera Asturias; Infinite Vision Media; upcoming governance changes; Video tutorials; defending free accounts again; Letters | |
| 2007 | ||
| January 31, 2007 | Open source viewer; Yak building contest for Save The Children; DMCA; Name Dropping: Barnzy Soyer, Baal Zobel, Jade Steele; Reduced Linden appearances in world; Letters | |
| February 28, 2007 | Radio Linden replaced by a podcast; Fraud in world; Name Dropping: Malarthi Behemoth, Katharine Berry; In world education listngs; Letters | |
| May 21, 2007 | SL4B; Plan to hand off abuse reports to estates; Name Dropping: Second Life Helpers group; Defending support and bug reporting systems; Letters | |
| July 30, 2007 | Multiple Sclerosis Fly; Name Dropping: SL4B organizers; Defending the voice feature; Letters | |
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