The news might be a bit late, but not too late: there will be a chat session at Stratics Chat in about 90 minutes (6:00 PM PST, 2:00 AM GMT). This chat session will be about The Sims Online. Part of the TSO team will be chatting there (Will Wright won't be there). This first ever "Sims Online House of Commons Chat" seems to be one of a series of chat sessions held at different places. More information is here (including the IRC Servers and Channels it's held at). You can enter the Java Chat client here if you're not familiar with IRC.