TENNANT: THE END OF ALA'S SECOND LIFE ISLAND

摘要

Lj tech blogger Roy Tennant recently wrote about the end of a (virtual) era, as the American Library Association (ALA) announced the ALA Island on Second Life will close after nearly four years. "My only response to this is 'What took so long?'" he writes. "When Second Life first came along, I tried it out like a number of people did…. [E]ventually, I got the hang of navigating this fresh face among the roads, trails, buildings, and skies of Second Life. "Call me old-fashioned, it just never really became an experience I enjoyed or that provided something that no other interaction could (e.g., email, instant messaging, chat rooms, etc.).