V irtual journalism summit

Unfortunately, for most of the summit I was down the hall selling cookies and cupcakes to raise money for SPJ, but I was able to catch the roundtable discussion in the afternoon.
This topic is an interesting one. I had no idea as to the enormity of the journalism that is going on online, and in particular, in Second Life and Club Penguin.
I was most amazed as to what Lane Merrifield was saying about Club Penguin, however. He said that there are 10s of thousands of blogs about this world, and most of them are about kids. And for their in-world newspaper, the receive 30,000 submissions a week! This number is almost unfathomable for me.
I also really liked the idea of iReport that Lila King was talking about. Colaborative journalism is an interesting idea. Her "sandbox of professional journalism" was a fascinating one and I agree that it makes stories more interesting if you can get the complete view.
I am a little sketchy about using things like SecondLife for business meetings and practices like that. I know it gives people a chance to talk to each other even if they are in many different countries, but Philip Rosedale was talking about people concerned with keeping their board meetings private. If they want it private, why would they conduct it over the internet, particularly in a virtual world like SecondLife?