The news agency will place one of its members in a virtual news bureau within the Second Life simulation to staff it and report on events inside the community.
Second Life, a virtual community popular with the heavily tech-oriented crowd. Second Life has an economy based on a currency called Linden Dollars, which can be exchanged for real US dollars. Reuters Reuters site and cover the financial aspects and other news related to Second Life. "As strange as it might seem, it's not that different from being a reporter in the real world," Pasick said in the report. "Once you get used to it -- it becomes very much like the job I have been doing for years." For those wondering if financial news from an online collection of virtual property and people merits attention, it should be noted that the US Government, always eager to sniff out a new stream of tax revenue, It won't be surprising to find the Department of Justice taking an interest as well. Any mechanism that allows the exchange of money tends to be viewed by Justice as a way of funneling capital to terrorists, so if avatars in black suits and sunglasses start appearing in Second Life, chances are they won't be representations of
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