Blog #13

Today in class we went online to look at some example of newspapers and heralds of Second Life. It very interesting to see how Second Life newspapers compared to each other and then see how they compare to real world newspapers. All Second Life newspapers a similar in the face that they all have many pictures. For example one newspaper our class visited had over forty pictures. When a newspaper has a lot of pictures it draws readers intention to that article. Whenever I saw an interesting picture that caught my eye I felt compelled to read the article.

Another similarity is that all the newspapers online today seemed to write about interesting topics going on in Second Life. Topics such as gossip and crime. This is interesting because these are topics that I would not expect to find in the virtual world. Todays experienced gave me many ideas about what kinds of articles I want to write for our group newspaper. All around I'm glad we took class time to look at examples of Second Life newspapers. Because the experience showed me an overview of how our group wants to set everything up. My favorite part out of all the newspapers we viewed was the comics.