Listen to host Mitch Wagner and the leading political voices in in Second Life, days after the Obama inauguration, as we look at America's evolving policies on the economy and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Wyatt Forster, leader of the Grand Old Party SL Group, liberal blogger GenJCChristian Homewood of Cafe Wellstone, and Siri Vita of Peace Train in SL hammer out the issues. Also, Siri describes a hearing she organized in Second Life for the office of the President-elect to discuss health-care policies, and how she's working to convince the White House to set up a presence in... read more

And we’re done with the second episode of Copper Robot, where we heard varying perspectives on the opening days of the Obama administration. Thanks once again to everyone involved, and we plan to get the podcast posted soon.

We’ll be back again in two weeks, Sunday, Feb. 8 at 11 am Pacific time, when our guest will be Aliza Sherman, an indefatigable networker and social media marketer. Aliza’s always been one of the most interesting people on the Web 2.0 scene, but her life became even more of an adventure not too long ago when she and her family moved... read more

Join us Sunday, Jan. 25, at 11 am SLT/Pacific Timefor a look at the Obama legacy. In previous years, it took a generation or two to settle a president’s legacy, but this is the fast-moving Internet era, so five days should be enough time to decide whether Obama is the The One Who Will Save Us All, or a socialist terrorist crook who hates America.

We have three guests who will help us settle that question, all of them politically active in Second Life and real life:

GenJCChristian Homewood, a liberal who blogs satirically at Jesus’s General.

Wyatt Forster, organizer of the... read more

Couple of things coming up in-world over the next few days that look interesting:

Kim Stanley Robinson

Our friends in Extropia are hosting a discussion with science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson at their regular Saturday Salon event this week, noon Jan. 17. Robinson is probably best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy - Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars, which explore the near-future colonization of Mars. He’s also known for The Years of Rice and Salt, which looks at more than 500 years of alternate history in a world where the Europeans were virtually wiped out by the Black... read more

Thanks to everyone who made Sunday’s kickoff of Copper Robot a success, especially our guests Eshi Otawara, Harper Beresford, and Mike Castlen, engineer Crap Mariner, and hosts World2Worlds and its CEO, Rissa Maidstone. The interviews went well, the audience seemed engaged, and everybody seemed to have a good time. Unfortunately, technology didn’t cooperate and we didn’t get a recording. (Crap has details.) So it was a moment in time, uncaptured and receding rapidly into the past, which is poetic. And frustrating.

Crap started a Flickr group for Copper Robot — please contribute your pix. Chimera Cosmos posted... read more

Our first program of the new Second Life interview show Copper Robot kicks off tomorrow (Sunday) at 11 am SLT, with well-known SL artist Eshi Otawara. Eshi, along with a couple of friends to help her tell her story, will talk about her RL problems with US immigration, as she was nearly deported from America because of an obscure clause in the law called the “widow’s penalty.” Also: A Few Minutes Of Crap, with Crap Mariner.

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Eshi is a fashion designer and artist in SL. In real life, she’s an American immigrant from Eastern Europe who had to... read more

It’s a new year, and time for a new Second Life project.

Way back in the misty prehistory of 2007 and early 2008, I did an interview program in Second Life for InformationWeek called GridTalk. Our guests included Biz Stone, who was then launching a new service called Twitter. We also had science fiction writers Charles Stross, Joe Haldeman, and notable people from inside the Second Life community. I had a great time doing it, and it was pretty popular in Second Life — but it became apparent that this wasn’t something InformationWeek should be involved in. It just didn’t seem... read more