Linden Lab Responds to the BBC : “Oh. We got baited.”
Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by Tenshi Vielle in Linden Lab News, News
M Linden was recently interviewed via email by a reporter for the BBC who was working on a story that would be “a look at Second Life today – what’s it up to, where’s it going, why so quiet in the media after such great press a few years ago, etc.”
The article was published today, and for us, it was disappointing to see that the piece was less a look at Second Life today and more a focus on the experience some organizations had with their Second Life experiments several years ago. We hope that in the future, we might interest the journalist in taking a closer look at some of what’s happening in Second Life today – we’d love to bring her inworld so she can see firsthand that there’s much more to the virtual world.
In the meantime, we thought we’d share the full text of M’s recent interview (below) to provide the full context of the information we shared. We encourage you to have a read of the interview below and the resulting article here, and to add your comments to the discussion on the BBC piece to share your perspective about Second Life today.
Read more: https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/press/blog/2009/11/20/m-linden-s-interview-with-the-bbc
I can’t believe they actually responded to the BBC. Actually, yes I can. This is the trend.
Kendra Coakes
Nov 20th, 2009
Linden Labs has become the Paris Hilton of online worlds.
Whispers Magic
Nov 20th, 2009
I think Paris is smarter!
Ann Otoole
Nov 21st, 2009
http://www.mattandleighann.com/gallery/d/2277-1/nelson_simpsons.gif
ironic
Nov 21st, 2009
So let me get this straight, they asked LL for ‘input’ then went and did what they wanted to do anyway… Sounds awfully familiar.
SRS BSNSS
Nov 24th, 2009
payback’s a bitch, huh