As one of the group of volunteers who created the John Edwards site mentioned above, I wonder how the author would have reacted to the many YouTube videos and Facebook sites created by volunteers for political purposes which lack professional polish? Or how about the websites of McDonalds and the New York Times back in 1996 when the web was the newest way to experience the Internet? Here's what this article might have looked like.

Your experiences in Second Life were cursory, shallow, and solitary. God forbid a travel writer should go to New York with the same parameters and misunderstandings you constrained yourself with.