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WIRED Mag reports on Machinima Fest in Second Life

Posted on November 3, 2006 by

WIRED news has a piece on the Machinima Festival in Second Life called "Machinima Fest Goes Virtual"  by Sean Captain.   It’s a nice write-up and hopefully will get more folks to the festival either in the flesh or in their avatars.

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Thanks for coming to the Machinima Fest Preview! See you on Saturday for the awards ceremony, and more!

Posted on November 2, 2006 by

Thanks, everyone, who came out for the first of two Second Life events in conjunction with the Machinima Festival this weekend in New York.  We had a great time, and we hope you did too!  Special thanks to the machinimators Phil Rice, Jackie Turnure, Jonah Gold, and Harrison Heller (pictured above) for coming in-world to…

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My talk on “Intellectuals in the IGF”

Posted on November 2, 2006 by

David Allen of Collab CPR asked me to be on a panel on "Intellectuals in the IGF" in Athens, which I just finished speaking at.  My role was to address some of the more practical possibilities of engaging academics more cohesively into the Internet Governance Forum, based on my experiences with the SSRC program on…

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Machinima Fest Preview TONIGHT (8PM EST) in Laguna Beach theater!

Posted on November 2, 2006 by

Woo hoo! It’s tonight here! See you alls there!

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Second Life Machinima Fest Preview tomorrow!

Posted on November 1, 2006 by

Hurray!  The Machinima Festival preview in Second Life is tomorrow night (5pm SLT, 8PM EST)!  The Electric Sheep folks have put up some nice signage in advance of the event in the Laguna Beach Theatre where it will take place. I wrote up a little notice for New World Notes as well.  See you alls…

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Remote participation at the IGF: so remote that no one knows about it

Posted on November 1, 2006 by

The Internet Governance Forum has done an admirable job setting up in very short order a number of means for remote participation at the meetings, which conclude tomorrow.  These include webcasting, a discussion forum, live text chat, email, SMS, blog aggregation, and even submissions via video!  All admirable and welcome to see. The question being:…

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Chinese rep: “we don’t have software blocking Internet sites.”

Posted on October 31, 2006 by

Yesterday, during the "openness" session at the Internet Governance Forum, there was a fascinating interchange among the panelists, the audience, and finally a member of the Chinese government delegation on the question of Chinese censorship of the Internet. The controversy kicked off with a representative of Rapporteurs Sans Frontieres, a group legendary for their media-stealing…

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Dramatic example of network (in)security at IGF

Posted on October 31, 2006 by

There was a real world demonstration of the difficulties and dangers of network security at the session on security this afternoon.   Someone, hopefully from the IGF secretariat, had set up a wifi network called "free_wifi_net" accessible in the conference plenary hall.  The moderator noted in his introductory remarks that if you connected to this network,…

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My talk on e-democracy and the IGF

Posted on October 31, 2006 by

I prepared a statement for the panel on "Internet Governance for Participation," which I just finished speaking at.  Time was running short, so I gave the abridged version of this session.  Here’s the complete presentation, which is entitled “Top-down, Middle Layer and Bottom-up e-Democracy”…

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IGP06 : Liveblogging Session on Openness

Posted on October 31, 2006 by

During the morning of Day Two of the first Internet Governance Forum, there was a multi-stakeholder dialogue on issues of “opennness.” The session spent the bulk of time talking about freedom of expression issues and particularly the responsibility of companies in using their influence to pressure governments to be more open.  Then the moderator moved…

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