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Newt Gingrich in Second Life

Submitted by Mark Celsor on Mon, 2007-10-01 20:08. politics | Second Life

Last Thursday Clear Ink helped organize an event at the Second Life, virtual Capitol Hill with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to coincide with the Solutions Day workshop. The event was covered on CNN's Situation Room, Reuters, Wired, the Washington Post, and numerous other sites. Here's a round up of news stories and blog posts about the event:

Thanks again to everyone who attended and wrote about the event.

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Solutions Day in Second Life: Audio Feed

The Solutions Day workshop at Clear Ink's Capitol Hill in Second Life featured former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, as an avatar named "Newt Gingrich". Here is a link to the audio of the event, beginning with Clear Ink's Kiwini Oe, and IBM's Jessica Qin, introducing Newt Gingrich.

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SaveNetRadio's Day of Darkness

Submitted by Leon Atkinson on Mon, 2007-06-25 09:11. Culture | entertainment | politics

Tomorrow, June 26, the SaveNetRadio coalition has called for a national day of silence to protest higher royalty fees that go into effect July 15. The new fees effectively put out of business the smaller Net radio stations. Yesterday, Adam Curry made a great point about the situation. The increased fees apply to all music by default, but other agreements can take precedence. Therefore, if someone sets up an alternative system for granting performance rights for music, broadcasters could continue so long as they only use music from the alternative system.

Well, Adam already did this a couple years ago. It's called the PodSafe Music Network. In the spirit of the Internet, it's a route around an obstruction, in this case the RIAA. While most of the content there is indie, there are some big name acts. There are definitely some great acts there that aren't big names but should be, such as Brother Love.

One of my favorite Net radio stations is SOMA.FM's Boot Liquor station. The overwhelming majority of the content on there is no major label content. It's music I haven't heard elsewhere. It's entirely possible for those acts to make themselves podsafe. And I wouldn't be surprised if an artist like Willie Nelson could make his catalog podsafe. This is how we change things on the Internet. It's the PBS model to annoy their listeners until they get enough money. The Internet model is to stop whining and start routing around: do it yourself.

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Virtual Capitol Hill Featured in Second Opinion

This month's Second Opinion Newsletter featured the virtual Capitol Hill recreation Clear Ink built in January for the swearing in of the 110th Congress, and the first female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. The Second Life event included a live feed of the ceremony, as well as a question and answer session with Congressman George Miller.

Visit Capitol Hill in Second Life HERE.

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Second Life Political Hill Sunday Morning Chat

Submitted by Steve Nelson on Thu, 2007-05-03 12:38. capitol | Kei Moana | politics | Second Life

Kei Moana holds a fairly regular Sunday morning political discussion group at Second Life Capitol Hill. It's a followup to the Sunday morning shows (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, This Week, etc.), to discuss the political issues of the day, and usually draws a bipartisan group of avatars.

Kei has also formed two Second Life groups, SL Capitol Hill and Political Hill. The first is a notification group for events on SL Capitol Hill, and the latter is open for group discussions. Here is the group notice for the next discussion group:

Group Notice From: Kei Moana
Event: Political Hill Sunday Morning Chat
Time: Sunday, May 6, 2007 - 11 a.m. to Noon (SLT)
Place: SL Capitol Hill Chamber
Moderated by: Kei Moana, Political Hill Group Leader

TOPICS:
1. First Republican Presidential Debate (Tonight! 5 p.m. SLT)
2. Action on the Hill: The President's Veto

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