It Lives! -- Is A "Second Life" Story A Reason To Break My Month-Long Blog Silence?
This entry was posted on 8/1/2007 4:28 PM and is filed under Games Journalism,Virtual world craziness.
I know you've all already done a Peter Moore and tattooed my new blog URL to your favorite limb. That's multiplayer.mtv.com, in case you have trouble reading it upside down or in the mirror.
But that doesn't mean stephentotilo.com can't host some of the fun. See, occasionally they let me dabble in the non-MTV world. Sometimes. Like a year and a half ago when I checked with my editor to see if I could write a story about journalism in the virtual world for the Columbia Journalism Review.
They said yes!
And after a long bout of reporting (always tough to recover from), I managed to write a big feature for CJR about the history of reporting on and in Second Life. The piece is an intimidating length. You'd think it was a letter for Vs. Mode. So let me whet the appetite with an excerpt. This is Second Life Herald founder Peter Ludlow talking:
“I think when we’re at our best is when we’re right on the edge, when people aren’t really sure if we’re playing a reporter or if we’re being serious reporters. And people hate that. They want to know. ‘What are you doing? Are you being serious or pretending? Let us know.’ The answer is we’re not going to let you know. We’re trying to transcend that boundary.”
Do you want to read about someone who used to role-play reporter for two different virtual publications? Or see what "Second Life"'s most fervent reporters have to say about the backlash against their virtual world? Maybe you want to know how well virtual reporting pays? Check the piece. I'm proud of it.
And with that, this blog may go quiet for another month. Sorry folks!
