Bad news sells better than good. People love to read about other people in trouble, hence the tendency to focus on failure. Of course, we shouldn't be surprised that businesses fail in the Second Life environment. As I reported in "SLentrepreneur Magazine (http://www.slentre.com/second-life-business-only-10-of-real-life-businesses-succeed-in-second-life/) back in May, only 10% of businesses actually succeed, so failure is the norm! Furthermore, the death of Linden Lab continues to be predicted on a weekly basis (http://sigmundleominster.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-on-impending-doom-or-end-of-world.html) yet the company is still running.

No-one is pretending everything is rosy, nor that LL get it right all the time. However, there are certainly more Jeremiahs out there than Dr. Panglosses and doom and decay still thrills us all.