Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Reuters Opens First Virtual Bureau
Adam Pasick has just been named the first bureau chief for reuters that has a virtual territory. Writing under the name of Adam Reuters (which is the name of his avatar) he covers the game world of Second Life and its one million in habitants (Link).
Just as a side note, Second Life and Project Entropia are the two game which seem to generate the most news stories. Both of which have clear economic ties to the real world, by which I mean there is no need for third parties to covert in game money to real world currencies. Many of the other games do provide conversion services. In particular, the great titan of online worlds, the World of Warcraft does not. In addition Second Life is much more free for then most of the other games. Allow participants to create their own material for the world.
Just as a side note, Second Life and Project Entropia are the two game which seem to generate the most news stories. Both of which have clear economic ties to the real world, by which I mean there is no need for third parties to covert in game money to real world currencies. Many of the other games do provide conversion services. In particular, the great titan of online worlds, the World of Warcraft does not. In addition Second Life is much more free for then most of the other games. Allow participants to create their own material for the world.
