Thank you for this logical rebuff. As the new ISTE SIGVirtualEnvironments "Poobah" I've come upon increasingly similar-sounding comments and questions like "What can we do to revitalize Second Life?" I'm, like, "Huh?," as I discover the burgeoning proliferation of Second Life-"like" virtual environments and endeavor to journal it at Oh!VirtualLearning!" and at the SIG wiki with my colleagues. What VEs provide is a sense of shared place at a distance, in ways no other technology or tool can do, and with an added dimension of the F word, "fun." That doesn't appear to be changing.