Category: Mainstream Media
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Credible reporting on Second Life from Newsweek
The July 30 edition of Newsweek magazine has a pretty good series of features about Second Life. Unlike an impression I get from reading some other mainstream media reporting on Second Life recently, it’s clear that reporter Jessica Bennett has…
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Nails in the coffin for TV on trust
Trusting the creator or communicator of information you receive is paramount to belief in a) the source and b) the information itself. You’re more likely to accept what you see or hear when you trust the source. So when you…
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Different flavours of English
Watching the lunchtime Sky News, I was struck by a new (to me) abbreviation to describe an event – 21/7. This is to do with three men convicted today of planning suicide bomb attacks on the London transport system in…
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BBC broadcasts TV show within Second Life
The Money Programme will be the first BBC Television programme broadcast in virtual online world Second Life, according to a BBC press release last week: […] Reporter Max Flint and his spiky-haired alter-ego, MP Masala, travel deep into cyberspace to…