HAMLET ON THE SHEEP DECK

In-world broadcast event listing here.

In about a half hour I'm going to be a guest on PRI's Open Source Radio with Christopher Lydon, interviewed via old school telephone line while also appearing live from an SL stage created by The Electric Sheep Company.  Also on the panel is the esteemed Sherry Turkle of MIT, author of the vastly influential Life on the Screen-- without which, I likely wouldn't be writing this blog.

Update, 3/29 11:00AM PST:  The MP3 of the Open Source program and forum conversation on it is here.  I was glad the producers also brought Cristiano Midnight and Chip Poutine into the mix.

Hopefully I came off relatively coherent.  The attempt to merge the Second Life portion with the land line phone interview didn't quite gel, at least for me, since I rarely use my plugged-in-the-wall telephone anymore, and it barely works-- meaning I had stretch the cord across the room and put it near my computer.  Meanwhile, my cell phone started ringing in the middle of the interview, forcing me to text message a reply while talking to Chris Lydon.

This clumsy attempt to handle several simultaneous streams of information is an ironic counterpoint to an observation I made during the show, that for younger Residents especially, Second Life was just one more medium to add onto their vast cellphone/pager/PDA/IPod/IM/Live Journal/Skype/My Space communication network.  Not sure that came across in the show, but then, at least I can blog that point here.

Comments

[Dolus Naumova]

You need a timestamp on these posts, Hamlet.

[Hamlet Au]

Eeek!