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Draxtor’s report on Obama’s speech in Ghana streamed into Second Life

Posted on July 15, 2009 by

Here's another great machinima report by citizen journalist Draxtor Despres on the simulcast of President Obama's speech in Ghana last Saturday into Second Life.  This is a much better report than my own raw footage of the simulcast I posted a few days ago.  Drax does a great job contextualizing the larger political and societal…

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Simulcast of Barack Obama speech in Ghana into Second Life and Metaplace! (video)

Posted on July 11, 2009 by

This morning, President Barack Obama gave an address in Accra, Ghana, which was simulcast into both the virtual worlds of Metaplace and Second Life.  I, like many other virtual world explorers, logged into both Metaplace and Second Life, as well as posting to Twitter, adding pictures to our Flickr photostreams and taking machinima video of…

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Obama’s Address in Ghana Tomorrow: Participate via Twitter, Second Life or Metaplace!

Posted on July 10, 2009 by

Tomorrow, Saturday July 11th, starting at 8am EST, President Barack Obama will be giving a historic address from Ghana.  For the first time in a US presidential address, you can participate in a global conversation with other people from around the world using SMS text messaging, Twitter (using the hashtag "obamaghana"), and from with the…

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Virtual worlds and civic engagement: Obama’s health care policy discussed in Second Life

Posted on January 10, 2009 by

Draxtor Despres's latest dispatch from the virtual world examines how people are using Second Life to speak this country's health care policy, as part of Obama's online policy dialogues. Here's organizer Siri Vita (sp?) describing why a Second Life consultation works: One of the most amazing things was how people were willing to open up…

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A History of the Jazz Split

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