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	<description>Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity.</description>
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		<title>IBM Identity Purchase and Implications for Virtual Worlds</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/03/17/ibm-identity-purchase-and-implications-for-virtual-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM&#8217;s purchase of Encentuate adds to the aggregation of identity management software and services amongst a few top players. As covered at Information Week the move follows that of Microsoft which purchased Credentica&#8217;s U-prove identity software. Identity, age verification, transparency and trust are Internet-wide issues. These issues have played out in virtual worlds and are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from Emory Virtual Worlds Conference: Live Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtual Worlds Evolving is the first topic at Emory University where academics, policy-makers and in-world developers have opened up a discussion of the future of virtual worlds towards &#8220;engaging scholars in a strong and vital community to confront the human condition and experience and explore&#8230;frontiers&#8230;specifically involving virtual world phenomena.&#8221; The first panel was asked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeks in Life: Second Skin Trailer</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/01/31/geeks-in-life-second-skin-trailer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new documentary explores identity, love, addiction, and life in virtual worlds. Two years in the making, Second Skin has released a trailer and if its production values and neutral stance are any indication it could be a real mind-opener. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPOxuOCGi9I] Meantime, BBC ran a show last night for the first time on adultery in [...]]]></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>
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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>
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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>Liberate Your Avatar</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/01/14/liberate-your-avatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New World Notes pointed out this fascinating experiment in virtual/real world cross-over and while at first glance it was an amusing and brain-twisting experiment in bring the real and virtual together, I actually think it&#8217;s a prototype of things to come. With all the talk of immersive worlds (and more about Castranova&#8217;s concept of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Second Life: Imagination, Discovery and Negative Consequences</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2007/12/22/lessons-from-second-life-imagination-discovery-and-negative-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2007/12/22/lessons-from-second-life-imagination-discovery-and-negative-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long and thought-provoking post on the dangerous lessons of Second Life reminds me again of the &#8220;strange loop&#8221; and offers insight into how the issues of identity, emotion, trust, and immersion will shape issues in the years to come: years when more and more people will migrate to increasingly &#8220;real&#8221; synthetic worlds. Dave Pollard [...]]]></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>dusanwriter</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>
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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>
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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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