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	<title>Dusan Writer's Metaverse &#187; Education in Virtual Worlds</title>
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		<title>Please Give the Kids Commerce: Second Life and the Teen Grid</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/10/16/please-give-the-kids-commerce-second-life-and-the-teen-grid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Teen Grid, while technically on the same &#8216;map&#8217; as the Main Second Life Grid, was always partitioned off with a set of technologies that were difficult to maintain. Any time you made a change to the server code, you&#8217;d need to double check to make sure the Teen Grid was still, well, separate &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decoding Linden Lab and the Oracle of Virtuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Rosedale returned as CEO of Linden Lab and all I could remember was this running tally I used to keep at the side of the blog: the number of days since Philip had last blogged. With the debacle of Viewer 2.0, Mark Kingdon had capped two years of transformative change with a flare-out (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linden Lab Raises Prices for Non-Profits and Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linden Lab is ending discounted rates for not-for-profits and educational institutions, according to an announcement today on their blog: &#8220;All education and non-profit private regions of any type, purchased after Dec. 31, 2010, will be invoiced at standard (i.e. non-discounted) pricing. All currently discounted renewals which occur after Dec. 31, 2010, will be adjusted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a Genius! Teen Grid to Merge with Main Grid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I woke up early this morning and for some reason decided I&#8217;d post about the Teen Grid and its imminent demise. Now, I don&#8217;t usually get much right, but a scant 5 hours after my post, Terrence Linden announced, well, that Teens would be &#8216;welcome&#8217; on the Main Grid. (I&#8217;m not given to gloating, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kids Drop In: Second Life, Getting Younger</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second Life is lowering the age limit, which isn&#8217;t necessarily the same thing as lowering the age (I mean, surely there are 17-year olds running around the Grid?), and I&#8217;ve been wondering, lately, whether this might be a good thing. There&#8217;s something I find intriguing about what the impact will be of a slightly younger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sociologists Get a Second Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intimacy in Warcraft, BDSM in Second Life, and Internet gaming cafes in China are the frontiers of sociology research, as outlined in an article on Ars Technica which highlights most of the major articles and studies that have gained attention over the past few years. For anyone starting out in a study of virtual worlds, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Two Minds: Virtual Worlds for Education and Enterprise</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/05/07/of-two-minds-virtual-worlds-for-education-and-enterprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 20:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to two schools when I was a kid, and they swung from one extreme to the other. In the first school, my teacher would start the day by pulling out a guitar and singing to us. One of the highlights of the day was &#8220;feeling time&#8221; when we&#8217;d all be asked to place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Facilities Benefit from Virtual Training</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/04/15/healthcare-facilities-benefit-from-virtual-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtual worlds provide significant benefits for medical training according to the Wall Street Journal which has a well-reported and detail-rich story about the benefits of virtual training to medical facilities. Delving into the training spaces in Second Life held by Stanford University, the University of Michigan and elsewhere, where &#8220;participants can build their own virtual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Land For Educators: Summit Attendees Get Second Life Tier</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/04/09/free-land-for-educators-summit-attendees-get-second-life-tier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any school or non-profit who sends a teacher, student or administrator to the 2010 Immersive Education Initiative Boston Summit will receive a &#8220;full region of space measuring 256&#215;256 meters in size (65,536 square meters)&#8221; in Second Life. The space is valued at $2,500 and can be renewed on a yearly basis. The summit will take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fulfilling President Obama&#8217;s Virtual Vision</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/03/17/fulfilling-president-obamas-virtual-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never claimed to be a journalist. And based on recently Tweeting articles from 4 years ago I&#8217;m not much of a fact-checker either. So in order to bring some respectability to this blog I&#8217;m bringing a journalist on board (and keeping it in the family while I&#8217;m at it). Craig Thompson is a journalist [...]]]></description>
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