Today’s Second Life news
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And hot off the press today:
The Money Programme will be the first [Ed: are you sure?] BBC Television programme broadcast in virtual online world Second Life. Reporter Max Flint and his spiky-haired alter-ego, MP Masala, travel deep into cyberspace to meet its virtual entrepreneurs, and find out how real fortunes are made. The programme will explore two different examples of these virtual worlds. Flint (the real one, that is) travels to San Francisco to meet one of the industry’s biggest names: Philip Rosedale, the creator of Second Life. He also meets the people behind Reebok’s virtual shop, and then in London visits marketing company Rivers Run Red. Rivers Run Red has amassed a multi-million pound turnover by doing all its business inside virtual worlds, including creating the cinema in Second Life where The Money Programme will be “screened”.
The Maldives opened the world’s first [Ed: are you sure? -- I thought Sweden had already opened one] virtual embassy in Second Life May 22. Macedonia, the Philippines and Sweden are expected to follow with their own virtual embassies.
The Washington Daily’s Dawg blog comes late to the party: “Some people can make a real living off the game, while some simply just play the game for fun. Although it may seem pointless to begin leading a “Second Life” on the internet, there is no denying the appeal of seeing yourself in a virtual world, networking socially with a whole host of other virtual people.”
Mitch Wagner interviews a stack of people about Second Life sex — is it harmful or not? “I interviewed many people involved in the cybersex community in Second Life, including a virtual madam, a dominatrix, and a few women who just enjoy it. One woman had been doing cybersex for nearly 20 years.” Lots of interesting comments, including “It’s no different then any other form of cybersex that’s been around for 20+ years. Same story, different medium, same arguments and still people’s opinions on the matter as just as irrelevant as ever”, but this one from Nobody Fugazi cracked me up: ” I hear it makes you go blind. A guy with thick glasses told me that, so it must be true.”
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