How Do We "take the paper" in Virtual Worlds
It's no secret that the news business has been dramatically changed by the Web. My generation and younger rarely "take the paper" the way my grandparent's or parent's generations did or continue to do. As virtual worlds like Second Life grow in popularity, yet another avenue for delivering news appears. I started thinking about this recently, and especially about how metaphors work in online media. We read Web pages and visit Web sites, which aren't really made of paper or bound to a location.
So does the virtual world offer us a way to "take the paper" again? Will this prove useful and interesting for this or the next generation? I don't know, but I want to play with the idea a bit and see what I come up with. With that in mind, I've started my own personal development project to test out some ideas.
"Reading" the paper in Second Life.
I'm doing all my work out in the open and being transparent about the process, even showing my newbie attempts at coding LSL. I've added a Flickr set to keep track of news-related in world work.
Posted by deryck on March 27, 2008
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