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Thursday, November 16, 2006
If you've never been to a Second Life Town Hall Meeting, I highly recommend you check one out, if nothing else--you'll be blown away when you realize these meetings are simultaneously connecting hundreds of people in a two-way dialogue using voip internet phone technology. Today's meeting was wild.
After some opening statements and position clarification regarding the whole CopyBot crisis, Linden Labs opened up the floor for questions--a veritable deluge of them, pouring in from all over and not stopping until well after the whole event had wound down. Some members submitted questions via the Town Hall Meeting Questions group's IM box and as each one came in it seemed to spawn 10 others among those watching the proceedings. Text questions received a thorough response from Linden Labs, but lacked the give and take you see in true debate.
Other residents submitted their questions in the same manner but added their Skype name as well, since that's the voip program LL happened to be using. This is the part that just takes my breath away for its sheer audacity and elegance--when it was time to answer those residents' questions, they were simply added to the existing voip conference call. Everyone got to hear what was said and it just...worked. No wonder people become such rabid advocates of voip technology.
