Behind the Podium!
So the CMP Metaverse panel yesterday *rocked!* We had better than 30 people, and had a non-stop rapid fire discussion about everything from feminist theory to fast cars!

The panel was me, John Zhaoying of CMP, spokesmodel and designer Callie Cline, and our own dandellion Kimban! Callie is a *trip* - she makes me look practically comatose, and omg I adore her!! It was *so* much fun hanging out with her!

It was a real discussion, too, and the podium was a total formality - *everybody* there jumped on in and swatted around avatar identity, the difference between a spokesmodel and a mascot or logo, whether alts are real - all the good stuff.

I think for our hosts, this was more about living the message of listening and learning together, rather than delivering packaged answers. 

For me - I'm still *almost* speechless!  :P  So many people came out to engage with the issues of digital personhood!  There were some challenges, but no mockery, no disrespect, no "not getting it," just some good disagreements over perspective and meaning, which made it so much more interesting than just preaching to the choir! 

There is something powerful emerging in these worlds, an opportunity to transform who we are, to change the rules of discourse and meaning.  We know it, we feel it, we live it.

But hot guys, sleek blondes, fast cars?  Forever!!!  :D