Man, I throw together a couple minutes of Second Life machinima of the NetRoots in-world peace protest on Monday and suddenly I’ve got 50,000 views on Google. All my past video efforts, including footage of Presidential hopeful Gov. Mark Warner appearing in-world, have garnered views in the high hundreds at most. I guess its all the love SL got from Wonkette, or the BBC radio story.
FYI, there’s also a great write up of the event by Scarlett Qi in SLNN with lots of great quotes.
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