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NPR Interview about Second Life's Financial Sector--Old Shoes, Brevity, Disneyland, and Disclaimers
I spent half an hour talking with Scott Simon of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition, which resulted in this five minute story on the air yesterday. It was scheduled in advance, but I was still surprised when it happened...Scott Simon's voice is as comfortable as old shoes, and it was rather disconcerting to realize that he was talking to me . I rarely talk back to the radio. (I reserve that for conservative talk show hosts.)
They did a reasonable job of editing. I still need to work on getting to the point quickly enough for radio. (Cornell is actually going to be training some of us wonky academics to just say what we have to say, and then stop). But overall, I feel I did a reasonable job on the hardest part of talking about Second Life's economy--explaining why it has one in the first place. If I had it to do over again, I would say it like this (follow the link below for more):
