The news company CNN is creating an I-report hub in the virtual world environment of Second Life. So what's the point? Aren't virtual gamers trying to get away from everything that is real life? Or maybe that's why I would play Second Life. But what makes it different is that CNN is allowing the gamers or as I like to call them "virtual worlders" to create their own news, which is occuring in the virtual world.
So my question then becomes are the virtual worlds starting to become more real world by the day. Sooner or later we'll have a President of Second Life and he or she determines what happens in Second Life and the world goes into oblivion when they go to war with the Sims Online for oil.....well maybe not oil, but you get my point.
Not only do I THINK Second Life is becoming a real world with advertisments blurged in them, I KNOW it after I hear this quote from Susan Grant, executive vice president of CNN News Services. "The thing we most hope to gain by having a CNN presence in Second Life is to learn about virtual worlds and understand what news is most interesting and valuable to their residents." Having a CNN presence! If I was a smart virtual worlder I would be insulted by this, and if I ever did watch the news again I would watch it on MSNBC....Kinda giving it the middle finger, nerd style.
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