05-08-2006 23:11
Thanks to all our attendees and volunteer international greeters at the USC Annenberg Island Open House and Awards Simulcast Monday. The real life audience in USC Davidson Center Los Angeles was mesmerized by live scenes of Second Life (yay us!) broadcast on plasma screens in the auditorium, and we made Fox News in LA!

Congrats especially to the Reinventing Public Diplomacy through Games Contest Winners PeaceMaker, Hydro Hijinks and Exchanging Cultures. For those not able to attend, or who would like to see it again, a videotape of the live event is now replaying in Annenberg Amphitheatre (click the link below). Event t-shirts, handouts and displays are still up too. Enjoy! :)

Best Judge's Comment: "Second Life is the lingua franca [common language] of virtual worlds." - Bing Gordon, Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts.

Best Resident's Comment: "This [Simulcast] is sooo post-modern." - Carlo Marx



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... software packages, acting in society... life creating, and accepted, and widely... spread throughout the world... freeing, liberating... allow... each person individual control and decision making... to create living structure... wherever they are. / Christopher Alexander, 1996