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		<title>The Future of Thinking Virtually: Tom Boellstorff on Overlays, Cyborgs and Second Life Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could chat with Tom Boellstorff all day &#8211; but I&#8217;ll take an hour when I can get it, as I recently did on Metanomics (full video at the end of the post). During my recent interview with Rod Humble, the new CEO of Linden Lab, I had one major piece of advice: reach out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conventional Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/02/18/conventional-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was invited to speak at Train for Success yesterday and, frankly, the audience was the main attraction. Maybe there was something about the topic (the Future of Virtual Worlds) &#8211; but there was no shortage of ideas, passion and discussion&#8230;.I only wish it could have gone on longer. Much of the discussion sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Dialogues: My Conversation with Rod Humble, CEO of Linden Lab</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/02/12/virtual-dialogues-my-conversation-with-rod-humble-ceo-of-linden-lab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-term residents of Second Life would probably experience the little shiver of recognition that I did during a long-ranging interview with Rod Humble, the new CEO of Linden Lab. &#8220;For me, the hook was the moment I created something,&#8221; Humble told me. &#8220;It was the moment I made a cube and then checked off &#8216;activate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Life: Metanomics with Tom Boellstorff</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/02/03/second-life-metanomics-with-tom-boellstorff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthropologist Tom Boellstorff was our guest on Metanomics this past Monday. It was an exhilarating conversation, covering everything from the cultural implications of voice in Second Life to the concept of &#8220;Overlays&#8221; as a way to think about our digital lives. Tom is an incredibly engaging person with an enthusiasm that left me (and many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metanomics Monday: Masterclass on Culture, Anthropology and the Meaning of Life</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/01/30/metanomics-monday-masterclass-on-culture-anthropology-and-the-meaning-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so not much ground to cover on tomorrow&#8217;s Metanomics when I host Tom Boellstorff, noted anthropologist and author of the seminal work Coming of Age in Second Life. The discussion lifts off of my previous post on the future of Second Life to which Tom graciously responded in the comments. In follow-up chats with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Life Next: 2011</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/01/09/second-life-next-linden-lab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 05:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s the first day on the job as the new CEO of Linden Lab. You&#8217;ve done your homework, of course, and you spent time with Philip and maybe even Mitch or other board members. You&#8217;ve read a few of the blogs, tracked back through Google to do a sort of Second Life history lesson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Predictive Power of Virtual Worlds</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/01/01/the-predictive-power-of-virtual-worlds/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/01/01/the-predictive-power-of-virtual-worlds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtual worlds didn&#8217;t so much predict the future as provide a giant sandbox in which to explore the different ways that the future could unfold. In presentations, I often say that I could have learned about social media from Facebook, or user-generated content from youTube, but I ended up in Second Life instead &#8211; and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Learning from Clever People: Lessons for Online Communities</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/11/26/learning-from-clever-people-lessons-for-online-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/11/26/learning-from-clever-people-lessons-for-online-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the way this works is we&#8217;re all part of the new social media landscape. I friend you, like you, topsy-turvy you, and your social graph increases, your &#8216;influence&#8217; grows, and before you know it you&#8217;re a guru because you&#8217;re rewteeted more often than the guy next to you, who might have a better idea [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Metanomics on Monday: Masterclass on Game Development</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/11/21/metanomics-on-monday-masterclass-on-game-development/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/11/21/metanomics-on-monday-masterclass-on-game-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Games aren&#8217;t just for kids. Whether in school or at the office, an effective game can help motivate, train or educate. Game mechanics &#8211; the &#8220;rules&#8221; and technologies that support a game experience, can be used to support social networking, competition, and personal achievement. And games are increasingly being used to reach out and engage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Bandwidth: Virtual Worlds and Games in the Age of Imagination</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/10/30/emotional-bandwidth-virtual-worlds-games-in-the-age-of-imagination/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/10/30/emotional-bandwidth-virtual-worlds-games-in-the-age-of-imagination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were talking about fruit. Bananas, a cup of melon wedges. He couldn&#8217;t remember the pear. He could picture it, I think, but it took some effort to connect the image and give the pear its name. It wasn&#8217;t exactly silent in the room. There were the bleeps of the machines and someone talking in [...]]]></description>
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