Virtual Worlds

Virtual Worlds Show Promise for Newspaper Communities

by Roland Legrand

In my previous post, I talked about the browser-based virtual environment Metaplace, which I think may provide a way to boost interaction with our community on newspaper website Mediafin. To test how well virtual worlds could be used to build a community, I undertook some experiments in organizing "conferences" in worlds like Metaplace and Second Life. And the results turned...

• July 27, 2009
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NewspaperShift

5 Ideas to Transform Newspaper Sites

by Roland Legrand

I sometimes wonder whether we are held captive by old school thinking. At our newspapers at Mediafin, we are in the process of integrating web operations with the print publication, a move which I fully endorse. There's one major risk to this: that we might end up seeing the web as just another way to distribute newspaper articles rather than...

• July 7, 2009
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