Eco Rama » Virtual Worlds http://eco-rama.net Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:41:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Brazil: User Customized Football Media http://eco-rama.net/brazil-user-customized-football-media/ http://eco-rama.net/brazil-user-customized-football-media/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:39:42 +0000 Vijay Kant Chit ChatA new arena is gathering steam and significance in the Brazilian Internet space: the football blogs. It should be no surprise given how natives are impassioned for the game, and how the latest results of the many championships become part of the casual chit-chat everywhere. Day by day, fervent fans are finding out that blogs [...]]]> A new arena is gathering steam and significance in the Brazilian Internet space: the football blogs. It should be no surprise given how natives are impassioned for the game, and how the latest results of the many championships become part of the casual chit-chat everywhere. Day by day, fervent fans are finding out that blogs and other media possibilities podcasts, webcasts, foruns and chats are invaluable tools to display, promote and exchange opinions about the many games, and also to express their passion for their favorite football club teams.

Chit Chat

Chit Chat
Chit Chat

The most evident feature brought by the wave of new entrants in the sports chronicle on the web is the customized report and commentary produced by teams fans. Since TV transmissions of football games started in Brazil, referees are not the only ones to be sujected to biased scrutiny of the fans. The obligatory account of the games by speakers and commentators from major TV networks, regular owners of exclusive broadcasting rights, also suffer the sharp analysis and fiery reactions from the opinionated crowd of the many clubs supporters.

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]]> http://eco-rama.net/brazil-user-customized-football-media/feed/ 0 Conferencing via Second Life http://eco-rama.net/conferencing-via-second-life/ http://eco-rama.net/conferencing-via-second-life/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:40:24 +0000 Udit Narayan Gilberto GilI was invited to represent the Brazilian Ministry of Culture in the conference panel Making the Local Global: Virtual Worlds, Migration, and Linguistic Diaspora of an event called Interdependence Day in Mexico City. Ive met a fine man called Joshua Fouts (Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy) at the iSummit in Rio last year, and [...]]]> I was invited to represent the Brazilian Ministry of Culture in the conference panel Making the Local Global: Virtual Worlds, Migration, and Linguistic Diaspora of an event called Interdependence Day in Mexico City. Ive met a fine man called Joshua Fouts (Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy) at the iSummit in Rio last year, and he was really excited about connecting the work we do at the cultural hotspots with virtual worlds. Weve been exchanging messages since then, but I kept telling him that Second Lifes platform needed some developments in order to be included in our program. Still, they wanted to hear about what weve been doing in Brazil in terms of using technology to outreach and enhance cultural bridges.

Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil

I managed to make a video containing a message from Minister Gilberto Gil on the panels theme, and prepared myself to go to Mexico. But then, I was given the wrong information about the need for a Brazilian to have a visa in order to visit Mexico, and so I was stopped in So Paulo and was not permitted to fly to Mexico City. The solution at hand was to participate in the panel through Second Life, and it worked out pretty well as you can see below.

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