Mark Warner -- No Noob

Recalling the previous blogging about Mark Warner showing up at the YearlyKos convention of lefty bloggers and hosting a reception there, perhaps you'd be interested in his latest online foray. It seems there is a virtual world kind of thing called Second Life, not that I know much about it. The basic idea of one of these places is that you have an avatar to represent you, and you walk around and talk and interact with others, buy and sell things, generally living out some kind of online fantasy life with others. If you're interested, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is probably the first and best scifi book I know about where a virtual world kind of place was envisioned.

So... Mark Warner hosted the first of several virtual town hall meetings there. It started by him being beamed down to the virtual stage. Sounds weird, eh. You can see how weird if you follow this link. I liked the concluding remarks:

MW: You've gotta cut me some slack, this is the first time I've flown onto a stage!

HA: You've performed quite well, sir. You are not a noob.

MW: I've got a video crew waiting to film some website spots -- how 20th century. Old school...

Got to run, thank you all for appearing in all of your various forms!

The guy is seriously courting the geek vote.