The following's crossposted from the Official Linden Blog (a week after the fact, but you know what they say about "better late"…):

In recent news, I was amused to be surfing the web and find out that Second Life’s been awarded the dubious distinction of being one of the “5 Worst Websites” on the Internet. By whom? None other than TIME, who also previously put Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale on their TIME 100 list of people “whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world”.

I’m gettin’ mixed messages here! :O

Not to mention, we have a website (you’re looking at it right now!), and we can communicate with the web from inworld (e.g., profile Web tabs, the llHTTPRequest scripting call, etc.), but saying “Second Life is a website” is as accurate as saying “This bowl of fruit is a banana” or “The color red is the rainbow”.

The myopia is understandable. Really.

And at least we get some really kewl comics having fun with the “website” thang, like Sherman’s Lagoon:

But wait, there’s more!

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