Archive for the 'politics' Category

What does it mean that Obama’s FCC Transition Co-Chair is involved in WoW?

According to waltermonkey on livejournal:
Now: What does this tell us about him, as a person, as a gamer, as a government official? I will attempt to translate all the dorkese.
1. – CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Every player in WoW belongs to one of two warring factions, Alliance or Horde. Werbach is Horde. Children often choose to be Alliance [...]

Bush Snubbed at G20

(via The Fire Wire, Nobody Likes Bush)

also:

World Leaders Won’t Shake Bush’s Hand
No One Shakes Bush’s Hand At G20 Summit

Obama’s FCC Transition Team

This is not exactly what I expected, but it sounds like great news.  Obama’s new FCC Transition team is headed up by Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach who are huge proponents of net-neutrality.  And if that is not enough they are also fans of World of Warcraft and Second Life.  It will be nice to [...]

Obama’s First Youtube Address as President-Elect

President-Elect Barack Obama has decided to use YouTube as an important communication medium.  He recently released his first address as the new President-Elect and plans to release the weekly presidential radio address as a Youtube video as well when he is in office. I think this is a great way for the new president-elect [...]