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A pair of odd online stories appeared on NBC and ABC. ABC's Dan Harris (no link) told us about the specially designed software used by myspace.com to search its user profiles for names that match those of registered former inmates who were convicted of sexual offenses. So far it has found 7,000 matched names out of its 180m user profiles: "With 300,000 people joining their site every day this is a massive undertaking"--and probably not a very productive one since "savvy predators" are unlikely to use their real names.
NBC's Don Teague visited the virtual world of Second Life where he found "a new religious frontier." Its virtual cities include churches, synagogues and mosques that are actually real. An evangelical Christian megachurch in Oklahoma City is a case in point: Life Church pays to have its Sunday sermons literally simulcast in Second Life where avatars virtually attend to listen. Teague introduced us to one worshipper who "came to church as a cheetah wearing shorts."
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