Been looking forward to this for months (it's been that long in the making, I did my 2 hour recording with the podcast team in July) -- The Wall Street Journal's podcast on the founding of Second Life:
We’re in a metaverse déjà vu moment. Companies are spending billions of dollars creating new metaverses, imagining a 3D virtual future. But there’s a metaverse that’s already been around for decades. In this world, people have started businesses, built homes and fallen in love as avatars. In a new four-part series from The Journal, producer Annie Minoff heads back into that largely forgotten metaverse – Second Life – to tell the story of the metaverse we already have and what it can reveal about the one that’s coming.
Stream on Spotify above, or listen or read the transcript for Part 1 here; also available on Apple Podcasts here.
UPDATE, 6:40PM: Bumped up for weekend listening!
Image copyright: The Wall Street Journal.
Annie, I have been in SL since 2006. Made friends, found a husband for RL, got married in Second life first and then in rl second. I have friends today still, that I met in 2006! Met people from all over the world in there. It is a part of me know and I will be in SL for the rest of my life. My name is scarletvavoom in SL, look me up and ask me questions. :) Be happy to talk to you about it.
Posted by: Robin Jordan | Friday, September 23, 2022 at 09:55 PM
Wall Street Journal -> News Corp -> Murdoch
Hence hard pass. Hope they paid you up front Mate
Posted by: sirhc desantis | Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 06:41 AM
The Wall Street Journal is one of the most respected and admired journalist organizations in the world. The Murdochs did buy it, but have not touched its reporting side; only its opinion page reflects the owners’ right wing politics, but that’s always been the case.
(Though funnily when I wrote an opinion piece for the WSJ, the editor wanted to stick in an anti-Trump poke.)
Posted by: Wagner James Au | Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 11:51 AM