Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog

[post event post] Email from W. James Au and Jerry Paffendorf, the guys that made it happen:

From James:

Tom--

Thanks so much for an awesome event. We're grateful for the time and effort you put into it, well above the call of duty. It was one of the most fascinating events to happen in Second Life, and we hope you found it worthwhile, too. There were numerous top members of the media and the high tech industry in attendance, and I suspect (and hope) this will yield an extra level of attention to your thought and your book. Again, our thanks.

Jerry and I will be blogging the event in the next day or two, and will send you links as soon as those are up. As I mentioned toward the end, we'd love to do that autograph session in the next few weeks, if and when you have time-- just let us know.

Thanks again,

James
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W. James Au AKA "Hamlet Linden", in-world journalist.

NEW WORLD NOTES
http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/

Ditto James. You rocked it, Tom. After you left 25+ people stuck around to listen to your Pop!Tech podcast and catch up on PNM. Thank you too, Critt, for all your help in making this such a success.

Here's a link to my post with a transcript of your presentation and Q&A:
http://slfuturesalon.blogs.com/second_life_future_salon/2005/10/thomas_pm_barne.html.

I hope you enjoyed your metaverse (3D Web) experience! Best of luck on the book tour, and stay in touch with James and I if you'd ever like to use Second Life again for any purpose whatsoever--David Jarvis at Alidade and the New Map Game is a friend of mine through the Associaton of Professional Futurists and we'd previously had a conversation about SL and wargaming.

And BTW just as an idea, I didn't have a chance to ask my Google Earth ( http://earth.google.com/ ) question today, but it would be an
*incredible* tool for visualizing the situation laid out in PNM and Blueprint--annotating the globe with information, tracking changes over time, playing out scenarios. The Acceleration Studies Foundation would love to help gather resources to build it if you're ever interested in outside help on a project like that.

Cheers,

Jerry Paffendorf

Community Director
Acceleration Studies Foundation
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