CNN to put idle Second Life population to work

CNN is planting its foot into Second Life, if only to claim it was there before the fall. But the news organization isn't looking to understand the virtual void firsthand — it's leaving the actual legwork to the resident population. A genius move. At any given time, there are 80,000 idle thumbs with nothing better to do than lurk about in the big empty and file reports to CNN, sparing the cost of an expensive journalist to the virtual world, as competitors like Reuters have done. We're just waiting to see headlines like "Rain of penises disrupt interview with former virtual masseuse" on CNN's headline crawl.