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secondlife.reuters.com
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When I recently read that a Reuter's correspondent has opened an
office in the online community Second Life in order to report what's happening there, I thought this was a good marketing idea.
Today I read in Adam Reuters' ("in real life, he is Adam Pasick, a veteran tech and media journalist") column that the Big Brother show will launch a Second Life edition. I found this a little bit scary.
But now I also see that Germany's biggest newspaper -- the tabloid Bild from Axel Springer, is building its own publishing house in Second Life. They're hiring staff and will launch an English-language "print" edition in December that will be sold on the streets.
I really really wonder if we need a Second Life that obviously is developing into a retro mirror version of the first one...
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