Reuters Recruits Warren Ellis for SL Column
Posted Friday, December 22nd, 2006, at 10:36 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
The Reuters news service, which has a bureau in Second Life, has just scored a huge coup, having recruited comic book writer Warren Ellis to write a weekly column on Second Life. Ellis’s musings on SL at his own site are always interesting, and pleasingly bloody-minded. It’s both pleasing and surprising to see Reuters land him, as the news service is not exactly known for its reverence irreverrence. When I worked there, more than ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to establish a news bureau anywhere near cyberspace, let alone recruit someone so resolutely individualist as Ellis to write a column about it. The column will also bring greater exposure to a writer who definitely deserves it. Go, Reuters!
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Warren, i don’t know if you’ll ever even notice this, but…
Second Life needs writing about, but not the usual “hooray, welcome to the Metaverse, shiny happy people” stuff that the press like to throw around.
First, please get out fo the green zones. Somebody needs to tell the public about what goes on out there (it ain’t hard to find) and i reckon that after Transmetropolitan, the reader can certainly trust you not to hold back.
Second, you need to look at the maths as well. Somebody has to expose it for it for what it is. 2 million “residents”? Then how come less than 100,000 unique logins per week? How come no more than 14,000 as peak concurrent usage? Forgive the pun, but my magical truthsaying bastard spider sense is going berserk.
That’s like saying that everyone who ever passed through JFK is an American which for all our sakes and the world’s combined obesity levels, had better not be true.
I don’t know how much Reuters will let you get away with. But somebody needs to tell the truth about this thing. I’m trying hard to avoid your blacklisted words here, but if you want images and links, drop me a mail.
(Since Mr Ellis’ site has hidden the registration section so well….)