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September 2, 2006
Second Life
Anyone who has seen my speeches lately know that I greatly admire the Second Life Library 2.0 expeditionary developments. And that has perked my ears up to how this is playing in other environments. Here's two more:
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 August 2006 (sub. req'd) (via Edupage)that Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson and his daughter Rebecca Nesson, will jointly teach a course on the basic 2.0 suite of technologies (like blogs, wikis, podcasts) and how they can be used in debate and argumentation. Students and professors will appear as avatars and interact with eachother in the Second Life virtual world. They will hold the whole course online in a virtual courtroom. Interesting adventure from Harvard Extension. It's a public course so tell me how it goes if you take it.
And, funny or not, politicians are showing up in Second Life too:
Cory Doctorow reported on Boing Boing that a former governor of Virginia and an undeclared presidential condidate named Mark Warner made a live appearance in the multiplayer online world Second Life on Sept. 1st! His avator can be seen here and as you can see, it's quite presidential as avatars go.
Interesting. I hear that politicians are racing to get their Facebook and MySpace presences set up - to go along with their e-mails, blogs and websites.
And to think when I was a kid all it took was for Nixon to show up on Laugh In and say "Sock it to me!" or for Clinton to play the Sax on Carson. Even faking being cool is changing.
The world is getting more complicated. I gotta get better at understanding the Internet as a series of tubes.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at September 2, 2006 12:17 AM