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	<title>Dusan Writer's Metaverse &#187; 106</title>
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	<description>Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity.</description>
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		<title>Leaving Second Life</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/02/24/leaving-second-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtual worlds grow, the number of users increase, the number of platforms expand, and in the competition for attention single-purpose virtual spaces position themselves for business, privacy, or specific functions. This increase of users entering environments that are in many ways unique from other Web-based applications in their ability to embed actual economic value and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alts, Virtual Worlds, and Tribes</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/01/25/alts-virtual-worlds-and-tribes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is our emerging virtual world literacy facilitating freedom, or quasi-religious indoctrination? On the heels of my previous post about alts, and the insightful commentary that followed from others, I ran across an intriguing post (design note: one which would be far better if they&#8217;d change the background wallpaper that almost makes the site illegible) on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Place of Alts in Virtual Worlds and Second Life: Possession or Expression</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/01/22/the-place-of-alts-in-virtual-worlds-and-second-life-possession-or-expression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is having an &#8216;alt&#8217; in Second Life a moral failing? Where does &#8220;Your World, Your Imagination&#8221; begin, and &#8220;Our World, Our Imaginations&#8221; take over? In an environment with purposeful fluidity of identity construction, open-ended opportunities for exploration and immersion, and as many prims as your land can handle &#8211; does assuming a secondary identity constitute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avatars Living Past Death</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2007/11/30/avatars-living-past-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written at length on how we deal with death in virtual worlds, and the implications of the technology for the future, where the question of who will &#8220;own&#8221; an avatar will become increasingly complex. An interesting post and discussion at Massively as to whether avatars should live on once the real person behind them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avatars and Identity: Conference on Orange Island</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2007/11/15/avatars-and-identity-conference-on-orange-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot topic of the week it seems &#8211; avatars and identity, meaning, the &#8220;brand you&#8221;. Orange Island presents a series of talks and discussions with what seems to include a robust lineup, including: Avatar as a Personal Brand Persona and Identity Transparency in Business Details here. Very much in line with my post of yesterday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Worlds &amp; Identity</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2007/11/13/virtual-worlds-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is an avatar us, who owns it, and if our avatars are simply code on a server somewhere does the owner of the server own the rights to that representation? Or in granting a license to be &#8220;present&#8221; does the use of that license grant us ownership of what we create from that license (including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Life/Second Life/Facebook Mash-Up</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2007/10/18/real-lifesecond-lifefacebook-mash-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we get closer and closer to our Facebook profiles and mySpaces having all sorts of little annexes, bedrooms, studies, virtual houses with our cross-platform avatars wandering from room to room from friend to friend a great virtual migration of our digital selves. Now, with the Facebook ability to add mini apps, two initiatives allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM/Linden Goals</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2007/10/12/ibmlinden-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Details on the goals of the IBM and Second Life partnership: - &#8220;Universal&#8221; Avatars: &#8220;Users could maintain the same &#8220;avatar&#8221; name, appearance and other important attributes (digital assets, identity certificates, and more) for multiple worlds.&#8221; - Security-rich Transactions that allow users to exchange assets both more securely in individual virtual worlds, but also across multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future is a Barbie Doll</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2007/10/12/the-future-is-a-barbie-doll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all my talk of immersive, virtual and mirror worlds, the future is in some combination of the quadrants outlined in the Metaverse Roadmap: &#8220;True&#8221; virtual worlds are primarily games &#8211; intimate simulations of a space, with intimate defined as meaning that users are agents &#8220;either through the use of an avatar/digital profile or through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual vs Artificial Property in Virtual/Synthetic Worlds, (and what to do with real houses on artificial lakes)</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2007/10/02/virtual-vs-artificial-property-in-virtualsynthetic-worlds-and-what-to-do-with-real-houses-on-artificial-lakes/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2007/10/02/virtual-vs-artificial-property-in-virtualsynthetic-worlds-and-what-to-do-with-real-houses-on-artificial-lakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only been here a few weeks, blogging away, and have only been in virtual worlds a few months &#8211; I admit it, I&#8217;m a newbie. So I&#8217;ve been back-tracking a bit and reading through past posts such as a thoughtful post by Nobody Fugazi on the value and definition of &#8220;property&#8221; (as in real [...]]]></description>
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