A Worldwide (Web) Moment
So last night was Worldwide Moment, a minute for the world to celebrate peace through the internet. At 9:09 GMT, on the 9/9/09, hundreds of people from dozens of countries took a photo of their life. Sounds corny, huh? Well, like you, I don’t really know how such an initiative can promote world peace.
But there’s something here. Something powerful. The web, social or just your plain old email forwarding vanilla flavor, proves every day how it can bring together people of all horizons. From social movements like the protests in Iran to charities such as Twestival, we now have the tools to reach the far corners of the earth and, maybe some day, become a real global village. A village that doesn’t look like this one.
This morning, as I was trying to recover from staying up late by drinking too much tea, a thought occurred to me: what about virtual worlds? If there is somewhere on the net where you get a sense of cross continental community, it’s on platforms such as Second Life.
After a quick google and Twitter search, it doesn’t look like the event was relayed on a virtual environment. It’s a shame, because residents of Second Life would have loved taking snaps what they were doing together at the time. And they’ve also showed how much they can do to further good causes - for example by raising over a quarter million US dollars to fight cancer last July. Argl. Now I really wish I had thought of this before.
Let’s talk about it for 10/10/2010.
