While the Chancellor of The Exchequer announced the changes in the the Budget for the next year, updates were picked up on a huge red briefcase in Second Life from the Twitter account at http://twitter.com/budget. You could also hear the audio here being streamed through a test shoutcast from my living room. An interesting idea. Which worked! (But could have done with video and more people) 
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… on his way to the House of Commons to deliver his final Budget.
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UK Budget 2007 in Second Life : March 21st 2007 : 4.30am SLT
Published March 21, 2007 PA , Second Life , The Press Association , blogHUD , twitter 0 Comments
Gordon Brown will make what is likely to be his last Budget Speech, tomorrow in the House of Commons.
Coming from a Twitter account being updated by The Press Association in London which can found at http://twitter.com/budget updates from the House of Commons will be streamed into the virtual world of Second Life at this location.
Search for ‘The RSS Platform’ in world and look for a huge briefcases! Or follow the blogHUD link to a page giving a map at teleportation link.
The announcements will start at around 12.30 PM GMT, which is March 21st 2007 : 4.30am SLT. It might also be good idea to ‘add budget’ to your Twitter account, if you have one. It will only be pumping content for the two hours (or so) of the Budget itself. You could even get it to SMS you automatically using Twitter’s free texting ability.
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