Second Life, for when your first life isn't busy enough

IBM's Sam Palmisano is holding a press conference in Second Life. 

Had I spent my college time doing something I was interested in instead of the stuff I wasn't I wouldn't have spent my time hanging out in the computer labs using Mosaic, looking bored as other people showed me what eventually became Linux, and spending the rest of the time playing MUDs. Years of running from the text descriptions of monsters in MUDs, a year of free time wasted in World of Warcraft, and a good six months of evenings squandered playing Dungeons & Dragons Online may have left me cynical, but isn't this just LiveMeeting or WebEx the next generation?

Second Life is being pitched as the new MySpace, everyone else is doing it so you're lame if your not. You need that avatar to be "relevant". The problem with being the new MySpace is that you highlight how lame and irrelevant the old MySpace was in the first place.

We're probably less than a year away from something else being the new Second Life, and then it starts all over again.