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I just rode to work with Reuben in California from my apartment in Brooklyn via the magic of roadcasting. Audio here.

The roadcast is really short and rapid-fire and we touched on: the Nintendo Wii, mii avatars, Super Monkey Ball, Clay Shirky’s turkey jerky, the metaverse bigger than Second Life, how to pronounce Areae with a Latin scholar pipe in your mouth, random 2007 thoughts, cracking nuts and making loot on user-created content at the top and bottom, and excercasting.

It was fun and the only things I’d add on my side are: The “sudden rise” of Second Life as a phenomenon is partly because the video game and virtual world industry has been so dang slow in joining the user-generated content and web service connected world that SL represents, and the SL-style stories and opportunities have been somewhat artificially suppressed; I think 2007 will see the first really whiz bang popular successes for experiences built on virtual world platforms (and I can say that because I intend to help build them :), and I want to firm up that there’s no way in heck platforms like MySpace, YouTube, and Flickr will peter out even if revenue at the top is hard to come by and if any of those systems in particular fall off, they are irreversable developments in how we create and communicate and these kinds of empowering networks will live on regardless of who owns them, who advertises on them and how, or what product name is at the top of the screen.

Viva la revolucion. The network always wins. You are the person of the year.

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See you on the excercast! :p