Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-chair a WoW Player

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Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-chair a WoW Player
Boing Boing found this 11/19/2008 on gigaom.com (flag)
kevin_werbach_2 Last week, President-elect Obama appointed Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton, and Susan Crawford, who teaches communications and Internet law at the University of Michigan, to co-chair his FCC transition team. In preparation for ... (link)

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  • humano humano
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    I bet he plays a Warlock ;)
    Posted 11/19/2008 (reply) (flag)
  • EmilyBlips EmilyBlips
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    Man, it would be interesting to find out that one of your guildmates was someone like that.
    Posted 11/20/2008 (reply) (flag)

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FCC Transition Team co-chairs are virtual worlds nuts, too
Published 11/19/2008 by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing
... benefit and are willing to experiment with new things.” Unsurprisingly, this perspective extends to virtual worlds like Second Life, which has been an important component in Werbach’s Supernova technology conference. On her own blog, Professor Crawford, a board member at ICANN, also counts herself “a huge fan of Second Life” for the way it lets users retain IP rights to their content (though she confesses to difficulty when it comes to moving her SL avatar around.) Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-chair a WoW Player See also: Net Neutrality fighters to ...

Obama's FCC Lead Plays WoW
Published 11/19/2008 by John Funk at WarCry Network : Latest News
According to Wagner James Au , Werbach plays WoW and is in two guilds with multiple characters (though one imagines he doesn't exactly have time to raid), while Crawford gets her kicks in the virtual space of Second Life . Their interest goes beyond what the games are worth as software, though - Werbach sees games like WoW as models for future software development: "What [Warcraft] does," he continued in that post, "is provide an incentive for people to develop new software and ideas for collaborative production. Many of those ideas will translate to other group ...

Obama's FCC transition co-chair is a WoW player
Published 11/20/2008 by Mike Schramm at WoW Insider
... I've had a political dream for a while now that I think all of us WoW players can agree on: someday, I hope, we will have a President in the White House that plays videogames. We're not quite there yet, but we're closer -- apparently, Obama's FCC transition co-chair is a WoW player, and has ...

New World Newsfeed: Barack Obama Appoints Two Second Life Innovators To His "Innovation Agenda" Group
Published 12/1/2008 by SLHamlet at New World Notes
... set up an official headquarters in the metaverse. That seemed quite unlikely just a few weeks ago, but increasingly, I'm not so sure. Last month I noted that two academics well-versed in Second Life (and one of them, World of Warcraft ) were ...

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