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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Second Life produces real millionaire


Thanks to fellow Sewing Diva Mary Beth at The Stitchery for sending me this story from Business Week's Techbeat on Second Life's first millionaire.

Just in case you were thinking that this is all so much fluff, it seems that if you are willing to devote your time to 'playing the game', there are real cash rewards. I guess that works for any endeavor - from the NBA to presidential politics. Notice that the headline on Business Week's webiste says "First Millionaire". More can be expected. Is this a new twist on Timithy Leary's mantra "turn on, tune in, drop out", as we turn on the computer, tune into Second Life (or any other all-consuming community) and drop out of real life?

I am feeling particularly curmudgeonly on this topic. Who can devote that much time to amassing fame and a fortune on-line? I have a job in real life, family, laundry, stuff I want to do like sew, read. Most of the time I can barely sit down to devote time to The Sewing Divas and MondoMode. I guess I won't be making a fortune in Second Life anytime soon, I seem to be devoted to First LIfe.

4 Comments:

Blogger Mary Beth said...

Ohhhh, you curmudgeon you, a new dress we could be knocking off in real life - Back to the machines!!!

10:51 AM  
Blogger Janimé said...

I'm with you - I prefer spending my time in the first life. After all, you can't really kiss a virtual DH, nor can you hand out hugs to virtual children.

5:34 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

OMG! I never heard of it before! There is NO WAY I could fit that into my first life! Even with a tamping stick.
Pok Pok Pok....won't fit.
Too bad, so sad.

7:56 AM  
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