{"id":391,"date":"2005-11-01T22:09:13","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T02:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=391"},"modified":"2005-11-04T00:24:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T04:24:18","slug":"telecommuting-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Telecommuting To Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a> resident Torley Torgeson has been tracking MSM news articles of late and posting links to them on the SL forum. Usually I&#8217;ve already seen the articles. The latest one I&#8217;d not read. And this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article is a good little read. One interesting bit from Peter Svensson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/6420AP_Virtual_Jobs.html\">article<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?p=374\">comment<\/a> about a virtual Moto City not seem so outlandish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Life resident Torley Torgeson has been tracking MSM news articles of late and posting links to them on the SL forum. Usually I&#8217;ve already seen the articles. The latest one I&#8217;d not read. And this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}