Here’s the schedule of Machinima Festival events that will be broadcast in Second Life today in the Laguna Beach Theater. Be sure and drop in and check them out: Machinima 101 11:30-12:15 Interfacing Creative Expression 12:30-01:30 Intellectual Properties Roundtable 02:00-03:00 Machinima with Issues…
WIRED Mag reports on Machinima Fest in Second Life
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.
Thanks for coming to the Machinima Fest Preview! See you on Saturday for the awards ceremony, and more!
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…
My talk on “Intellectuals in the IGF”
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…
Machinima Fest Preview TONIGHT (8PM EST) in Laguna Beach theater!
Woo hoo! It’s tonight here! See you alls there!
Second Life Machinima Fest Preview tomorrow!
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…
Remote participation at the IGF: so remote that no one knows about it
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:…
Chinese rep: “we don’t have software blocking Internet sites.”
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…
Dramatic example of network (in)security at IGF
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,…
My talk on e-democracy and the IGF
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”…