In case you missed the panel go here  for the archive.

I still feel the adrenaline running through my fingers from today’s events and that feeling of bridging two worlds (maybe three since the world of journalists is sometimes said to inhabit a different space or “estate” as it were). I had the distinct pleasure and privilege of watching my fellow journalists and editor unfurl into a virtual world they had in many ways underestimated or scoffed at as “just a video game” and nothing more. Very few understood it as a community or a place where anything “real” really happened. But today, David Peck (aka Britney Mason) informed me that we maxed out the SIM at 50 people/avatars which “doesn’t happen very often,” he said (they had to raise the permissions on the SIM to allow for that number). It was a ripple among so many ripples from a small pebble thrown into a large body of water. But by the end of today’s panel many of us, like Tony Soprano yelling out to the expanse of unknown desert terrain in front of him, were yelling out “I get it!” (Yes you are permitted to roll your eyes at this last line because you’ve all gotten this “it” there is to get and have quietly gone about your business.)

For those of you who are interested in knowing what happens to the tents and the stories in them, Beth has kindly volunteered to house them on her land. We will ask reporters thoughts on this offer and let people know where they can find these stories. Meanwhile stayed tuned to the final products which are going up this week at www.newsinitiative.org/ucb.

Meanwhile, here’s some pictures from the panel’s afterparty:

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