CNN opens up in Second Life
David Johnson November 13th, 2007
As we previewed earlier, CNN’s I-Report hub in Second Life is up and running, and they also started a blog about it. Here’s their own coverage of it. The first in-world training session is today at 5 p.m. ET.
Update: Crowd forms at CNN’s new virtual hangout (Thanks, Rob!)
3 Comments Add your own
1. Mark Mascolino | November 13th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Isn’t this about 6 months too late? Hasn’t Second Life’s meteoric popularity already waned?
2. Gorman | November 13th, 2007 at 9:49 am
At least 6 months, if not a year. Yes, my WoW comment in a prior post on this subject was 95% joking, but there’s got to be something else they can do that makes them appear ahead of the curve, instead of woefully behind it.
3. Rob | November 13th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
The picture at CNN’s Second Life blog - linked to my name - shows a crowd gathering at CNN’s in-game kiosk. Here’s my take:
1. Those are all FEMA staffers trying to show how people are more interested in CNN than the ‘Grand Theft Auto: Second Life’ elements of Second Life (Virtual Guns, Booze, Porn).
2. Those are all the people that are left playing Second Life.
When CNN starts reporting intergalactic headlines from Eve Online or Planetside, tales of somewhere near Middle Earth in World of Warcraft or filing updates from the frontlines in Battlefield 2, Halo 3 or World War II Online then they’ll be relevant to the online community. Until then they’re just wasting space.
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