Virtual World Labor Protest Shows Up On IBM's Real World Stock Chart

Last week when I posted news of an international union protest on IBM's Second Life campus, IBM staffer (and blogger) Jaymin Carthage evinced extreme skepticism about its efficacy. "There is no evidence that the Union's activities [last September -ed] in Second Life were anything other than a cheap attempt to grab some publicity," he argued in Comments, notwithstanding a labor organizer who claimed that it was more.  Mr. Carthage may be a right on a certain level, though here's an interesting phenomenon: recently, I started noticing traffic coming to my blog from an unlikely site: AOL's stock market resource.  That's where shareholders and potential investors can research important company data, such as performance, market cap.  And last Wednesday, at least, that also included word on a convergence of avatars waving anti-outsourcing signs in the metaverse.