Two more links for the NWN clip file, from the Street.com and The Boston Globe, after the break.
Boston Globe, 10/25: "Leading a double life In a user-created universe..."
Top Second Life fashionistas earn $50,000 to $75,000 a year, says Wagner James Au, whose New World Notes blog chronicles Second Life. Competition can be intense.
TheStreet.com, 10/25: "Second Life Avatars Take 5"
Wagner James Au has covered Second Life since its infancy as an embedded journalist on his blog New World Notes . For the first few years, each U.S. dollar was equivalent to about $250 Linden. In other words, Au notes, users are now seeing the exchange rate returning to one that is comparable to when SL's population was a mere 10,000 to 100,000. "What that suggests is a company struggling mightily to keep the world from flooding with money, obsessing over inflation like Alan Greenspan on amyl nitrate," Au says.
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