I just caught Susan Finkelpearl cheating on us with Democracy in Action! Moreover, she’s brazenly flaunting her Tips (for Sprucing up Your Website) in public, too!
Does User-Generated Content Work for Political Campaigns? Todd Zeigler takes a ge…

“The gist of that draft, before I stripped it to nothing and posted the result, was that it appeared Nissan was trying to use Second Life as a marketing platform (for their real world Sentra) and not as a brand-building platform (and the article I read yesterday about Nissan’s real world situation suggests they could use some help in that department). In any event, I thought theirs was a mostly worthless idea because, as some of you know, I’ve been arguing for some time that SL isn’t ready for marketing primetime and shouldn’t be treated like other media. Furthermore, people – most especially people immersed in these virtual environments – don’t aspire to own an “average Joe” car; they aspire to own luxury cars, tricked out street racers, customized hot rods… and the concept cars that the automotive manufacturers show but almost never mass produce.” – http://blog.rebang.com/?p=1158

This is just a repeat of the “user number” fiasco, afaic. It took someone on the outside with effectively no experience using SL to get the attention for the same issues being raised by others (and that person, Clay Shirky, *still* got it wrong!).

Perhaps if blogging and other media was viewed as something other than a means to advertise, none of this would be news now because these issues would already have been covered.