This morning I was at a really great panel discussion on “The Growth of Wireless Internet : From Community to Municipal to Corporate,” which featured several leading experts and activists in the field of community wireless: Dharma Dailey, Ethos Group (moderator) Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation Harold Feld, Media Access Project Michael Lewis, Wireless Harlem…
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Tim Wu and Matt Stoller on Net Neutrality
The Save the Internet Coalition held a fun panel on the Net Neutrality campaign, including informative and entertaining comments by Tim Wu of Columbia University, Adam Green of Moveon.org, Frannie Welling of Free Press, Matt Stoller of MyDD.com, Scott Goodstein of Catalyst Campaigns and Azlan White, campaign activist. Here’s some quick notes from Tim Wu’s…
Live video from the Natl Conference on Media Reform
For those who aren’t able to be in Memphis for the National Conference on Media Reform, there will be live video of many of the plenary sessions, including keynotes by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bill Moyers and Sen. Bernie Sands. The organizers of the conference promise that you can also: Listen to downloadable audio of…
Videogames for Good event today, 11AM in Memphis
Just a reminder that Suzanne Seggerman, head of Games for Change, is hodling a session on "Videogames for Good" at the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis this morning at 11AM. Location is the Memphis Cook Convention Center, Room L-9. Why a session on videogames? Here’s what Suzanne writes: Videogames are increasingly ubiquitous. More…
Groovin’ and shakin’ to save the Net
Here’s Josh Silver of Free Press revving up the crowd at the Save the Internet Party tonight in Memphis at the Gibson Guitar Factory. Later they charge onto the dance floor for the filming of a new viral video on Net Neutrality.
MacArthur panel discusses “Do Videogames Help Kids Learn?”
I just got an email that the MacArthur Foundation is hosting what sounds like a very interesting panel discussion on videogames and learning on February 8 in Chicago. The presentation I’m most interested in is by Sasha Barab of Indiana University who will demo his latest project, Quest Atlantis, "an immersive online world designed to…
Virtual Capitol to stream live video of opening of 110th Congress
Reuters announces that marketing firm Clear Ink this Thursday will streaming live video of the opening of the 110th US Congress into a virtual version of the Capitol (teleport SLURL). This will be followed by an in-world discussion with Rep. George Miller of California, chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. The Capitol Hill sim officially…
Virtual movie-going – is this the SL killer app?
In my teens in the 80s, I remember reading a book of futurist essays, one of which talked about how much more interactive traditional media was going to become in the next decade. The example the author talked about was a 3D projection of the TV show "M*A*S*H" which the user could participate in as…
Super new video on Net Neutrality from Save the Internet!
Here’s an awesome new video from the Save the Internet crew. Great message, great production values. Good job, guys!
The REAL skinny on the ICANN Second Life build
Apparently I should have checked my sources more clearly before posting yesterday’s piece about ICANN taking over the virtual world. I should have suspected the press release was phoney when I noticed that it came from a vintcerf@icann.xxx. My bad. It goes to show that not everything you read on the internets is true. Anyway,…