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Why Reuters Left Second Life And How Linden Lab Can Fix It
Silicon Alley Insider —
The Register is reporting the Reuters Second Life bureau has closed, and adds about the embedded reporter there:
Reports of a marketing evac team swooping in a virtual huey to snatch Eric Reuters from the firm's Sadville bureau - while harried by squadrons of flying penises and pursued by crazed locals bent on acts of bestial sexual brutality - could not be confirmed.
I can add details: For a year and a half, I reported under the byline "Eric Reuters" in Second Life, before settling in at my new home here at SAI.
So what ...
Google Unplugs Lively as Hype Fades Over Virtual Worlds
Bits —
... Eric Krangel, who used to report on Second Life as Eric Reuters. “The very things that most appeal to Second Life’s hardcore enthusiasts are either boring or creepy for most people.” Mr. Krangel’s list of dull activities includes trying to sell virtual clothes, experimenting with new genders or species and chatting with strangers. Reuters told The Register, a technology news site, that it is still covering Second Life but will do so with living, breathing reporters rather than their virtual facsimiles. It feels like just yesterday that a number of publications were ...
Reuters quits Second Life
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Life. Reuters has just quit, and its reporter has penned an Exclusive: Why Reuters Left Second Life, And How Linden Lab Can Fix It at Silicon Alley Insider: So what happened? Is Second Life dying? No, but the buzz is gone. Eric Krangel says his "beat" was "about as fun as watching paint dry." Which sounds like yet another example of hype finally being overtaken by some semblance of reality…. This seems to be a response to a story in The Register, which reports that: a trawl of the Reuters site reveals Adam ...
