Blog #5

Tim Long

Professor Crawford

English Composition I

18 February 2010

Annotated Bibliography

Rosedale, Philip. Interview. Second Life w/Philip Rosedale. Internet Television. The GigaOm Show. 25 June 2008.

In the interview Philip Rosedale explains the basics of “Second Life”. Then Rosedale explains how Second Life is growing so fast that it is hard to meet the demand of the users. Therefore the demand of the consumers is creating a frustration for the customers of Second Life, because Linden Labs can not work fast enough. Rosedale also addresses how Second Life’s concurrency rates have been at a steady increase however the consumer statistics for new users has seem to stop increasing. The statistics start to balance out for the new consumers, because of the users who get on Second Life and stay on for a few months then decide to quit using Second Life. It seems more and more consumers do three months then quit, but the long time consumers seem to be putting more hours into Second Life in that case, boosting Second Life’s economy. Rosedale also explains why businesses should stick into Second Life and he explicates how a good reason is the growth of the economy, which is bringing a half a billion dollars annually.

This interview source can be very informative, in which case makes this source reliable. Another key factor of the source is the fact that Philip Rosedale, the person being interviewed, is the founder and CEO of Second Life. This makes Rosedale a reliable source, because he knows more about Second Life than any analyst or critic. However this also makes his information very biased, because Rosedale is always trying to sell Second Life to potential consumers. The source itself is not a popular source or scholary, because it is an informal interview. The interview takes place with the primary interviewer, Chris Albrecht, and a secondary interviewer, Wagner James, who is a person in Second Life. The interview was don on June twenty fifth, 2008. This makes this interview almost two years old so the statistics are a little out dated.