MOVED: Second Life on the BBC / NPR

Since I have no idea where anything actually should go anymore I've decided to help our resmods by a: making this a post with two distinct subjects and b: adding a moved tag so they don't have to do it.

So this morning my alarm radio goes off and its the BBC (British Brhour on NPR. And this reporter is talking about going into Second Life. Its clear she doesn't think much of it -- she describes having trouble with the interface, buying clothes as playing with dolls, she goes to a concert but can't manager to fly or walk to it and ends up in the ocean. It wasn't a great review of the world.

But then a sociologist from a pretty prominent university whose exact name I've forgotten because this was at 5 a.m. EDT gets on and starts talking about interpersonal interactions in online worlds and how they are cool because it allows people with physical distance between them do more than just talk on the phone. He used a family, spread out over the UK, as an example. He also spoke about how interpersonal interaction is not invalid because it is in the virtual world rather than the physical.

Pretty cool segment actually. You can probably find it on the BBC or NPR website.

Don't know if it's the same thing, but SL did get a mention on the BBCs Digital Planet today. Wasn't much of one though... just an "in passing" thing.

Thank you, Vivianne. I seem to be absolutely unable to get up that early. The NPR website says that the transcripts of the morning's show will be available at 4:30pm EST.

Can't wait to read them!!