Comments on: Obama's FCC Transition Team Co-chair a WoW Player

By: Logan Montrose

Logan Montrose — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:42:02 +0000

Who’d a thunk it? A hardcode WoW enthusist weaving his game playing experience into politics. But when you read his logic, it makes so much sense. Nice!

- Logan

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Obama’s FCC transition co-chair is a WoW player | Anjis Place — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:24:37 +0000

[...] quite there yet, but we’re closer — apparently, Obama’s FCC transition co-chair is a WoW player, and has played in two different endgame guilds, including Joi Ito’s famous We Know guild. [...]

By: Angelia E. Class

Angelia E. Class — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:59:07 +0000

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This makes me want to hurt people! « Immortal Comics — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:44:55 +0000

[...] plays them is a basement dwelling, pale skinned, no life failure. In fact there are some pretty succesful and popular WoW players. I could say a lot about this subject but lets save that for another [...]

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Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:35:30 +0000

[...] I discover that one of the members of Barack Obama’s Transition Team is an avid WoW player, and views online worlds as being “very important to the future of work [...]

By: Obama incorpora a “adictos” a “World of Warcraft” y a “Second Life” en su equipo de asesores. | Comunidad en la Red

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:54:32 +0000

[...] al segundo grupo, y en su lista de asesores ha incorporado, según nos hemos enterado a través de Gigaom y del diario The Guardian a un experimentado jugador de World of Warcraft, y una gran aficionada a [...]

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By: harrison schaerr

harrison schaerr — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:27:08 +0000

That’s awesome.

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Server Queue? Really? Where? « Council Of The Sword — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:00:26 +0000

[...] In what sounds like off topic news, but is actually pretty cool, did you hear that one of the head honchos on Obama’s FCC transition team is a Warcraft player? No joke. [...]

By: paoken

paoken — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:20:14 +0000

As opposed to the guy who called the internet ‘Tubes to nowhere’? Thank god that guy’s not in charge of anything involving the WWW, but still…

Heck, new guy can just pound a few redbulls and he’ll be fine. Let him stay up until six. More power to him.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:07:42 +0000

WoW is basically a second full-time job. He’s in two guilds and is a self-described “hardcore” player? That’s what we need in government. More ineffectual people. “Sorry I showed up half awake to this important meeting. Our instance raid “unexpectedly” went until 6am.”

Bad idea.

By: paoken

paoken — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:51:55 +0000

Ok, I’m all for this. Maybe we’ll have some people who actually understand the way the internet actually works.

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Obama’s FCC transition co-chair is a WoW player | Immortal Guardians — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:19:42 +0000

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By: Helvetica

Helvetica — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:59:10 +0000

Aw. I see that there’s a lot of trackbacks but no outright comments! Such is the fate of popularity in the post-blog apocalypse.

However, I’d like to throw in my two-cents, aside from my blog post. I for one am happy to see a lot more people coming of age (politically) who happen to enjoy the same culture that a lot of us gamers do. Especially amid powerful movers like the FCC. MMO players and video gamers are everywhere, and representation for this media is still sorely lacking.

Understanding virtual worlds will become important for steering legislation that will affect them. And with the Internet and various places like Second Life, MMOs, and other creative virtual domains on the rise it will become ever so more important to not let them get marginalized and vanished under the wheels of misunderstanding.