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November 6, 2006
NPR takes a tour through Second Life
I just listened to the tail end of a reporter on NPR take a tour through Second Life. Apparently, there will be videos posted to the site of Second Life, as well as the story itself, later this morning. For now, I'm posting a link to the Morning Edition page, but I'm hoping to post specific links later this morning.
This story, in partner with the a story on Talk of the Nation a few weeks back titled A Second Life to Live and a Weekend Edition Saturday story titled Role-Playing Games, Offering a New Reality, and many others like it, show a real interest on the part of NPR to explore digital culture as a part of the arts and culture that they cover. It also shows that the digital life is becoming a regular part of modern American culture, and should be noted to the world.
NPR provides all sorts of information, news, and interesting stories, and it goes to show that you can even learn about new technology and technology culture just listening to NPR. A few years ago, I had always thought of NPR as the cultured listening of learned, older listeners, and not likely to feature such stories, and I'm glad I was proven wrong when I started listening to NPR about 2 years ago.
So, as a method of keeping up with technology, and technology explained in plain English from a very curious, exploratory, "how does this work?" approach, listen to and read NPR. It's good for you.
November 6, 2006 8:01 AM