links for 2006-10-16

The Reuters web-based Second Life News Center has real-time Linden currency charts, a currency converter (for all major world currencies) and a teleport link to the Reuters Atrium.

Jeff Jarvis weighs in on the possible effects of the decision by Business 2.0 to pay its journalists a bonus based on the traffic generated by their personal blogs.

Several US bloggers are concerned that Google News is returning increasingly poor-quality results.

An investigative reporter has forced the resignation of Sweden’s trade minister after running a story on his blog that a major paper turned down.

The first blogging MP thinks Private Eye, not newspapers’ lobby correspondents, should fear the rise of political bloggers.

Reuters’ new SL Bureau Chief is interviewed by in-world jorunalist James Au

Craigslist may generate $50m in 2007 sales. Not bad for a company with 20-odd employees.