Second Life

Boom Time for Virtual Reporters

With news organizations slashing budgets and laying off journalists right and left, what great news for reporters then that the world is - virtually - expanding, with a whole new territory of fake-land to report about.
Media, Internet

Payday for Doppelganger

Company behind virtual hangout known as The Music Lounge cues up $11 million in venture capital. Is funding a sign of a second life for virtual worlds?

Virtual Reporters

With news organizations slashing budgets and laying off journalists right and left, what great news for reporters then that the world is - virtually - expanding, with a whole new territory of fake-land to report about.Yes, it's true...although no one seems to want to invest much money in reporting about the real world, a production house now has Murdoch-Hearst-sized ambitions for virtual territories.