The Wired Guide to Second Life

With the announcement that Wired and other news organizations will now be reporting from Second Life, they've put up an article on the Wired property and have created a Guide to the larger Second Life world. From the guide: "Today, Second Life is second home to half a million people, and everyone from Duran Duran and Wells Fargo Bank to the Department of Homeland Security has funded real estate here. The national currency of Linden dollars is freely convertible to US dollars (and the exchange rate is quite favorable at the moment!), and an increasing number of residents are ditching their jobs back on Earth to make their living entirely within Second Life's economy. But this exotic realm can seem bewildering and strange to first-time visitors (affectionately known as "noobs" in the native parlance). Let Wired be your guide."

Comments

Seriously?

[tekkguy]

People are leaving their real-life jobs for Second Life?

Wasn't that article earlier about WoW screwing up lives? Did I mis-read it?

What's the deal with SL?

[JordanL]

Seriously... there's been at least five SL articles in the alst three days... all over a virtual world?