Following up on Corey's post about Second Life, Reuters recently set up a bureau on Second Life. NPR even recently interviewed its bureau chief/correspondent.

I knew that Second Life had its own economy and people make a living from building and selling stuff, but what I did not know was that Linden, the official currency of Second Life has an floating exchange rate!

PASICK: They do. Well, I mean, the laws of supply and demand hold true just as well in Second Life. And the interchange is a currency exchange called Lindex,where you can trade between U.S. dollars and Linden dollars. It's a floating exchange rate totally set by supply and demand.

RYSSDAL: What's the rate today?

PASICK: I can tell you. It is currently at 273 Linden dollars to the dollar. And that's one of the things that we're piping into Second Life. We're giving people kind of a live currency feed, so if you're making a business decision, that's the kind of information you'd want.

On 10/18/2006, Second Life also officially hit its 1 million registered user mark. Impressive.

Since I am perpetually concerned about information organization/delivery, what I would like to see is someone build a virtual library in Second Life, because I have yet to see effective 3D interfaces to information navigation.