Archbishop Desmond Tutu recently entered a thriving virtual world called Second Life to be interviewed by Reuters bureau chief Adam Pasick. Somehow this doesn't seem as strange as it would have a few years ago. During a presentation at the World Editors' Forum in Cape Town, Adam Pasick, known as Adam Reuters in the game, explained that Second Life has a real economy and real culture, and therefore real news. "There are six million people who live in Second Life right now, and the economy generates over $350-million a year in real currency trade," said Pasick. Pasick's style of journalism is the stuff of science fiction. He jokingly refers to Desmond Tutu as "the Arch" as he rotates the realistic three-dimensional avatar (a virtual body) that he created for the interview.

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