Avatar-to-avatar news conference

The Virtual Journalism Conference at Washington State University this week of April 10, 2009 may have glimpsed the future of global journalism in a brief documentary about an avatar-to-avatar news conference. The news conference, which took place in February in the virtual platform Second Life, gave eight Egyptian political bloggers a chance to directly question James K. Glassman, the public-diplomacy czar under former American President George W. Bush.