Linden Lab's Philip Rosedale has apparently been feeling pretty chatty, as he recently spoke to both the BBC News and the New York times about the current state of things in Second Life. Though the interview he gave the NYT was very basic -- sort of a "Second Life For Dummies," he talked to the BBC about Cory Ondrejka's recent departure:

"Our differences are more about how to run the company and how best we organise ourselves as a company going forward," he said. "We really do not have any differences in strategic direction."

"There's not a shift in direction in the company that I wanted to make or Cory wanted to make that was incompatible," he told the BBC News website.

He told the BBC that Linden's goals currently consist of making Second Life more open and easier to use, and also compared the state of virtual worlds to the state of the web in the 1990s, noting that when the folks around the Linden offices feel down in the mouth about the anti-Second Life mudslinging, they look at quotes from the early '90s that evidenced the same doubt and disparagement about the web in its early days.