Good news for Second Life with extensive coverage in The New York Times today – check it out! An excerpt includes the following: "In a world called Second Life, especially, so many people visit that profitable businesses have sprung up that earn their proprietors real money, not just virtual currency – in fact, a handful of people earn six-figure incomes ...

On a blog note: "Bingo Bango Software Inc announced the release of Elicit. Elicit, a desktop blogging client, integrates leading web and RSS Services from the internet’s giants in one application for the purpose of creating content for blogs. Elicit’s service integration is one of several productivity innovations for bloggers. Web and RSS service integration is the promise of the ...

A new company called Scoopt helps ordinary people market their photos to news organizations. A story by Reuters posted on Yahoo News says new Internet businesses aim to get citizen shutterbugs paid for their wares, much of which were eventually splashed across newspaper and Web front pages worldwide following the London bombings. The Reuters story says that "Scoopt, a Web-based ...

This special report on Internet security looks interesting – so check it out on PC World online. The intro says, "Ever-increasing threats to our data, to our privacy, to our businesses, and to the Internet itself have made computing a hazardous endeavor. Familiar offenders like viruses and spam have been joined by more insidious threats-from spyware and adware infecting your ...