In April 2006, I was sitting in a Durham, N.C., sports bar with Gary Kebbel, who runs the Knight Foundation's News Challenge grant program. Gary was officially letting me know I would be getting a grant for The Next Newsroom Project. I was so giddy that something he said at the time flew right by me: "By the way, as part of the grant, we'd like you design a version of the newsroom of the future in Second Life," he said. I was just thinking, "Wow, I'm getting the grant." Only a few days later did this sort of sink in. Of course, as a business and technology reporter in Silicon Valley, I'd heard of Second Life, the virtual world developed by Linden Lab of San Francisco. But video games and virtual worlds have never been my thing. I had never ventured inside Second Life, or had a desire to. Several weeks after that lunch, I...
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