I-Report gets a Second Life

Congratz on the Second Life work and good luck with everything. Last year when we shot a story on Second Life with Miles O'brien it seemed like a perfect fit for CNN. Glad to know people agreed with our ideas. It was fun being CNN's first Virtual Cameraman though.

I'll have to log my account in again sometime.

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Why bother with this? Secondlife is nothing but a game for furries and people who never leave the basement.

I am co-owner of Beach Front Realty in Second Life and I'm very pleased to see CNN joining the world. Please feel free to drop by our Beach Front Headquarters on Kandee Island for your real estate needs.
Again, our warmest welcome to CNN !!!

Are you serious? I can't believe my ears. News about Second Life "events"? Why not ask your readers to submit their dreams ? How about running a contest about who can look at clouds and see the most interesting shapes? That could fill some airtime on CNN.

Excellent move!

Don't forget the educational projects: There are over 200 rl colleges and academies active in SL now. Many have visually interesting "builds": Edgar Allen Poe's House of Usher, Shakespeare's Globe theater, molecular and astronomical displays in science, etc.

Good luck with it!

You may be from the 1800's but games dont just have to be for fun anymore, you can use it like a tool.

The article about this interesting endeavour states that CNN wants to find out what readers (virtual) find newsworthy. If CNN allowed comments beneath its O/L news stories as the Globe and Mail does, they'd find out pretty fast.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Have Anderson Cooper's avatar IM my avatar.

I am sorry to see CNN, with its long-established worldwide reputation for dependable news reporting, get sucked into Second Life and its virtual fantasy. How can virtual news be real news? It's an oxymoron. Don't the big thinkers at CNN know that Second Life is loaded with bogus personalities - people who want a virtual second life because they can't handle the real first life that they've got? I know someone personally who has established a virtual identity at the Second Life site. He's fooling himself and trying to fool the world - oops, I mean the virtual world of Second Life. And CNN is soliciting HIS I-Reports?!?!

You've got to be kidding me? Is CNN jealous that Fox is cornering the market on fake news? CNN is asking people to make stuff up in a virtual world and the make up a report on it as well? And then have the audacity to call it "news?"

Rats. Looks like I'll have to go get my *real* news elsewhere from now on

I'm really disappointed in you, CNN. We had such a good thing going... I'm moving on.

This is an interesting concept, but I don't know how well this will pan out. Only time will tell.

Good work CNN

Catherine-Texas, when you get 1,000 people together to put on a charity event, that is news no matter where it happens.

When you have 200+ universities teaching in one place, that is news no matter where it happens.

When you have 40,000 people at once getting along together in reasonable peace at any one time, that is news no matter where it happens.

Even in SL..

I'm happy that more people are taking an interest in Second Life. I am an educator in the U.S. exploring Second life and its potential uses for teaching and learning in- and outside the classroom. In addition to being a fun virtual world, Second Life could also be used as a very real-world tool for learning. As a virtual environment, Second Life provides opportunities for more interactive, exploratory and experience-based learning. Also, students who have different learning styles, ways of communicating, and special needs, may benefit from activities making use of Second Life. Educators, students, and parents, be sure to check out the islands that are dedicated to educational purposes!

http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki