Topic Digest: Congress and Virtual Worlds

Author : Raph Posted : April 03 2008 03:48:42

As has been reported in several places, there was a Congressional hearing on virtual worlds — or more specifically, mostly on Second Life. There’s a good sort of “landing page” to go explore this from source materials on Terra Nova, including links to an MP3 of the hearings.

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The Click Heard Round the World : Daily Show skewers Congress and Second Life over virtual world hearing

Author : rikomatic Posted : April 08 2008 14:03:22

Congrats to my friend Glitteractica Cookie / Susan Tenby of Techsoup.org for being called out on the "Daily Show with John Stewart" yesterday! I can't believe that John actually said, "Damn you, Tenby! Damn you!" I'm dying of jealousy.

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The Click Heard Round the World : Video: Sweet Machinima Intro to Second Life for US Congressional Hearing

Author : rikomatic Posted : May 01 2008 05:10:27

Those of you who watched the Congressional hearing on virtual worlds last month will recall a short machinima video that was shown at the beginning of the hearing. I just got work that the video is available online at the Silver and Goldie website. Really amazing work by machinimators Silver and Goldie (with additional footage from Torley Linden.) Nice use of lip synching for Philip Linden in particular.

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