Life On Line: Virtual Worlds Reporting on the Physical World

In an interesting twist on virtual worlds news reporting, the Australian talk show Life on Line, has spent the last 13 episodes covering physical world use of the Internet reported from Second Life. (Programming started in February and is on hiatus now, but back in October.) Hosted by a veteran Australian producer via his Second Life avatar, Steve Cropper, Life On Line reports cover news focused on use of the Internet and how we live our lives online, all reported from inside the virtual world of Second Life. Longer form interviews with guests cover everything from the therapeutic benefits of time spent online to gambling addiction to interviews with Microsoft's virtual world evangelist. It's highly produced and informative program with format winks and nods to shows longstanding variety shows like the Tonight Show. As opposed to many virtual worlds programs which focus on what's going on inside virtual worlds, the fact that this program steps outside and reports on the physical world from the virtual world makes it a fun twist. I look forward to the next season.

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