SiliconBeat

At the Idea Lab blog, where I’m part of a group working on projects related to the future of journalism, I have a new post today on our work in Second Life. As part of The Next Newsroom Project, we needed to build a version of our newsroom in this increasingly popular virtual world. I talk abot some of the challenges, especially for me since I had never been in-world before:

“After playing around with it for several evenings, I quickly realized that I could probably spend the entire year of my grant just learning how to make a chair in Second Life. So I went looking for some help. Fortunately, I found it at Duke University through the Information Science + Information Studies department.”

You can read the full post here.