By Wesley Regenbogen,
Dear readers and SL Newser staff,
I joined Second Life Newser in July 2014 after searching
for a virtual newspaper to write for in Second Life.
My virtual journalism career started around the year
2000, when I was member of a virtual world called Cybertown.com ( it
doesn’t exist anymore nowadays ). At the time I saw an ad where they were looking for
writers at CVN ( Cybertown Virtual News ). I decided to send in an article that I wrote and I
thought by myself “here goes nothing.” But after a while, the editor emailed me back that the
article was good enough for publication. I must admit that I was a bit blown away by the fact
that my article was accepted anyhow.
But in the year 2003, the Cybertown.com virtual world
had new owners and they decided to make it a subscription based
website. I decided to leave CVN and thus the virtual world of
Cybertown.com. After that I wandered around the web in search of other
virtual worlds like Cybertown.com, but I found none that gave me the
same “feeling.” Until in November 2006, I saw a video about Second Life
and decided to join in and created my account.
After a few years of learning the basics of Second Life,
I found out that SL Newspaper, owned by James T. Juno, was looking
for writers. I then made the decision to join his team and write
articles for them. But I lost interest in Second Life a while after that
and decided to leave Second Life for a while. I briefly came back in 2012, but I didn’t find any
virtual newspaper again and I learned that SL Newspaper was no longer
existing.
In July 2014, I found out that SL Newser, owned by Bixyl
Shuftan, was writing about Second Life. I decided to join them and I have been writing for them
ever since, until now.
Today ( December 13 th, 2017 ) I wrote my goodbye
article and I will move on. I hope this career switch will be a good one, we will
see what happens.
I would like to thank the crew of SL Newser, and
especially Bixyl Shuftan, for letting me part of their team and write
with them. I sincerely greet you, the readers, for reading my
articles and enjoying the things I have written about.
So, I say farewell to SL Newser and I hope that the
virtual newspaper SL Newser will continue to grow and will expand in
the near future.
Yours truly,
Wesley Regenbogen
