Of late, I had noticed that the number of postings to the Reuters page had declined and that all comments were closed - in fact, they were never opened.

I have to say that I have always used the Reuters Second Life site as a source of information, the quality of which is very different from many other SL news outlets. Eric's articles use a more serious tone and never degenerate to squabbling between minorities or end-up focusing on trivia.

I wish Eric the best as he moves on to "spend more time with his real life" and I hope that Reuters will be open to maintain a presence here, even on a limited basis.

Perhaps the folks at Reuters might want to contact some freelance in-world journalists...