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News agency decides to focus on its first life instead

Second Life, the online 3D virtual world, has been snubbed by Reuters, one of the biggest news agencies in the world.

Reuters began its Second Life odyssey back in 2006, when it embedded a journalist into the site, by the name of Adam Reuters (actual name Adam Pasick).

The last report Adam gave was on 30 September, pr

I’ve been a big fan of Moo, a printing company that makes diminutive business cards drawn from Flickr images, for a few months now. The cards I created with a picture of Adam Reuters on the front and my Second Life contact details on the back were a hot ticket when I did interviews [...]

You may notice a few new members of the Reuters Second Life family starting this week. Eric Reuters (aka Eric Krangel) and Rubina Reuters (aka Rubina Matan) are graduate students at the Columbia School of Journalism who will be working with me for the rest of the spring semester.For their initial assignments, Erik is working [...]

SECOND LIFE, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A Spanish charity group has raised enough money through its Second Life awareness campaign, which featured a homeless avatar, to provide a month of healthcare and education for a real-life child.Asociacion Mensajeros de la Paz (Messengers of Peace), which runs some 300 foster homes, created the avatar MensajerosDeLaPaz Jubilee [...]

Bureau chief Adam Reuters will interview San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on Friday as part of a series of interviews from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Newsom was elected mayor in a tight 2003 election with the support of A-list politicians like Bill Clinton. He made national headlines in 2004 when he issued a directive to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.