[Infowarrior] - The End of Second Life

[Richard Forno]

The End of Second Life
By Owen Thomas, 12:00 PM on Sun Feb 22 2009, 20,980 views

Those who can't do, teach. Second Life, the most overhyped virtual  
world, has been abandoned even by its most fervent journalistic  
promoters, like Reuters and Wired. It's now pitching itself as an  
online schoolhouse.

How fitting, since Second Life, a piece of software which allows users  
to move "avatars" representing themselves around in a three- 
dimensional space and decorate themselves and their virtual land,  
resembles nothing so much as a failed academic experiment.

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