Second Life resident Torley Torgeson has been tracking MSM news articles of late and posting links to them on the SL forum. Usually I’ve already seen the articles. The latest one I’d not read. And this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article is a good little read. One interesting bit from Peter Svensson’s article:

Its 60,000 users trade $2 million a month, making its economy about the same size as that of the South Pacific island of Tuvalu. That’s small, but large enough that it supports about 100 virtual jobs, according to Philip Rosedale, chief executive of Linden Research Inc., which created Second Life.

I can’t help but find those kinds of comparisons really interesting. And now that Second Life has grown to over 76,000 residents (in a matter of days), I wonder to which island it now compares. And also wonder how many more people could be telecommuting to a virtual world. Makes my comment about a virtual Moto City not seem so outlandish.