Denton interviews Bob Hawke on Enough Rope tonight – 9:35pm AEST on ABC1
Netroots Nation starts in Austin, Texas later this week. As with the YearlyKos convention last year, it looks like some of the festivities will be streamed in Second Life – with speeches by Howard Dean, Lawrence Lessig, Donna Edwards, etc., it should be worth checking out.
Why can’t Milne gawk and woo chum at the same time? Without spilling a drop?
He’s not a utter imbecile.
Er.. right comment, wrong post.
I have been asking around – and I am really, really fascinated/interested – what do you think some of the benefits are of Second Life conference-going?
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Well, by far the biggest advantage is being able to attend things that you wouldn’t physically be willing or able to attend – there’s no way I can be in Austin this week, even if I had the money and was willing to make the trip.
It removes (or at least diminishes) practical limits on the number of attendees who can view something. The fact that it involves digital broadcasting of content means that recording and making it available are easily supported as well. Its advantage over simply streaming the content through a web site is that it provides a real-time forum to discuss and react to the event itself. Those are the main things off the top of my head.
And thanks for the comment about the Dwarf, Wadard – even if it was misplaced.