My First Virtual Press Interview
Yesterday I was interviewed by Hunter Glass and Deeeep Witte of the Second Life Business Magazine. Given the subject of the magazine, it was only fitting that I would be interviewed in-world, in my Second Life persona. I had already equipped my build for the interview, adding dynamic, scripted controls to allow me to switch it from a presentation space into an interview space at the touch of a button.
The entire interview was done in text form; there was no audio. Given that Hunter is in Afghanistan and Deeeep is in Belgium, this was by far better than a phone call.
Hunter and Deeeep showed up as scheduled and we started with some small talk:
We then took our seats and started the actual interview:
Hunter has a very official-looking press pass:
Without warning, a new resident materialized in my space. Fortunately she was fully clothed and moved along when I politely told her that I was in the middle of an interview. This actually happened twice — I wonder if people are searching for Amazon and finding the space?
We wrapped up with a short demo of my rooftop projects:
Overall, fun and (more importantly) very effective.
[...] Antone Gonsalves timely piece about SL residents building stores around Amazon Web Services (AWS) follows on nicely from SL Business Magazines (SLBM) recent interview with AWS evangelist Jeff Barr. Hunter Glass (in Afghanistan) and Deeeep Witte (in Belgium) conducted the entire SLBM interview in text form with Jeff (in the US) who posted about the experience on his personal and AWS weblogs. Lots of interesting conversations of late about voice and text in SL which I shall write up separately. [...]
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