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Another day, another SL mention on CNNNovember 14th, 2006 |
Growing number of educators explore ‘Second Life’ online - CNN.com. It appears to be presented as part of the Welcome to the Future special CNN is doing.
Misleading stat watch:
Now some 1.3 million people around the world log on to live out their second lives.
There’s definitely a little bit of an SL backlash building up among the MMO folks at this point, in part because of perceived overhype and in part because of the use of the registered users metric… a bit of a shame that we can get distracted from SL’s very real achievements because of the surrounding stuff — some of which, no doubt is a bit of jealousy.
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