via the, um, Onion – you’ve been forewarned….
WASHINGTON—According to White House sources, an increasingly cautious President Obama has begun testing out parts of his executive agenda on the 15 million citizens of the online world known as Second Life. The commander in chief’s avatar—an attractive African-American man with two more years of senatorial experience than the president—has already dedicated 3.5 billion Linden dollars to developing sustainable green energy in the virtual community….
I mean, really….the news here is we got coverage in the Onion! Yay!
HAHAHAHAHAH This made me giggle
thats why satire is dying… the same article was a Hamlet Blog in 2007…
or was that a UGOTRADE blog, or a State of Play conference report….or was it a panel from yesterday in SJ.?
BANK BABY! BANK!
c3
/me giggles
I’ll start worrying if/when someone starts gathering together child avatars to sing songs in praise of Obama and making machinima thereof.
This is so funny I forgot to laugh.
Because in fact Beth Noveck of OSTP didn’t really trying out anything in SL at all, but she did get very busy trying out her collectivist theories with her various NY University projects and groups and of course her famous patents wiki which she wants to roll out to impose on RL. And now she may just get her way with a new FCC chairman said to be sympathetic to her that she’s hoping to roll on this. None of this peer-review ever gets a peer-review except from her own university which funded the project.
I continue to be HUGELY wary and critical of every single thing that Beth Noveck does. If you visit her much-ballyhooed interactive blah blah website in which she and her cronies are pre-determining policy under the guise of public contribution, you will see that it’s run worse than the JIRA. And that’s the idea. To have government run by geeks with wonky notions like this that are all about keeping coders in power and not really participatory democracy.
I think this article in the NYT which I commented on extensively really captures some of the issues, but will they get a hearing in SL? Likely not, as these sessions tend to be Love Machines.
On the bureaucratic “democratic centralism” that Noveck brings to the task, blaming the masses for being asses:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/internet/23records.html?scp=1&sq=Beth%20Noveck&st=cse
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/can-the-wonks-beat-the-trolls-on-government-sites/?scp=2&sq=Beth%20Noveck&st=cse
Imagine, dissent against the government, under Obama, is now called “trolling”.
The technocommunists of Silicon Valley have done a good job of setting up their autocracy.