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	<description>Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity.</description>
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		<title>Enterprise, Virtual Worlds and Transparency of Identity</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/08/07/enterprise-virtual-worlds-and-transparency-of-identity/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/08/07/enterprise-virtual-worlds-and-transparency-of-identity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business in Virtual Worlds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erica Driver, who is doing wonderful work at ThinkBalm in assessing and advocating for the use of virtual worlds, posted a policy and invited comment on the use of actual identities in order to participate in the idea-sharing, brainstorming, and general advocacy of the group. Now, this issue has come up before, and I&#8217;ve blogged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Worlds, Calling Cards, and Identity Interoperability</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/07/25/virtual-worlds-calling-cards-and-identity-interoperability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dusanwriter.com/?p=1296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking last night with someone about cell phones, which led to a discussion of the Google Android operating system for mobile, which led to me giving one of my pointless rants about how Google is sucking up information when we browse, when we e-mail, and who knows, maybe with Google voice they&#8217;re going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identities Constructed: Virtual Worlds and Anonymity (A Reader Comments)</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/02/17/identities-constructed-virtual-worlds-and-anonymity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dusanwriter.com/?p=1173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted some thoughts about avatar and actual identity, which generated excellent discussion. But I thought I&#8217;d highlight the following comment, posted by Debs Regent of the SLLondon virtual community: Social Construction Anyone who has studied Social Psychology will be familiar with the extensive work of Kenneth Gergen about the constructed identity and its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormon Avatars, the Super Bowl, and Second Life</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/02/11/mormon-avatars-the-super-bowl-and-second-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education in Virtual Worlds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Molly Farmer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dusanwriter.com/?p=1163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Avatars are heating up. The recent Super Bowl featured an avatar-focused commercial for Coca-Cola which proved that avatars are approaching mainstream consciousness. (And also implies that it&#8217;s only when you log off and stop living in an aimless fantasy that you&#8217;ll meet the cute guy or gal &#8220;behind the avatar&#8221; &#8211; It&#8217;s the Real Thing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophers Fire Up Avatars</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/01/29/philosophers-fire-up-avatars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dusanwriter.com/?p=1143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest group &#8211; or in this case, just one person, but most likely the beginnings of a group &#8211; to hit Second Life is philosophers. Professor Luciano Floridi, a philosophy prof at the University of Hertfordshire just north of London, UK, will lead a philosophical study that will be based in SL, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Avatar Arrest for Virtual World Murder? The Hack Job</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/10/23/first-avatar-arrest-for-virtual-world-murder-the-hack-job/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/10/23/first-avatar-arrest-for-virtual-world-murder-the-hack-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dusanwriter.com/?p=995</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In what might be the first arrest for the murder of an avatar, Associated Press reports that a woman in Japan killed off her virtual husband when he divorced her. The police threw her in jail for &#8216;hacking&#8217; because the murder was accomplished by using her &#8216;ex husband&#8217;s&#8217; log-in information to perform the act of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Sick and Tired Too: VD for Virtual Worlds</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/19/im-sick-and-tired-too-vd-for-virtual-worlds/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/19/im-sick-and-tired-too-vd-for-virtual-worlds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applications and Tools]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dusanwriter.com/?p=820</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to remember 100 passcodes. And I recently blogged on this&#8230;.and blogged&#8230;and blogged&#8230;..and 4,000 words later came to the same conclusion as Edutechy who also had a nice simple diagram and a name (Virtual World VD) to explain the whole thing: Edutechy also bypassed a lengthy sidebar on interoperability, identity, reality and all [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Avatar Afterlife</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/15/the-avatar-afterlife/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/15/the-avatar-afterlife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Long Now Foundation posts speculation that our avatars will soon be programmed with our online preferences, leading to an afterlife for our digital personas: The software used to track the online behavior of users, within in particular system (virtual worlds or social networks) could be modified to track the entirety of their online behavior, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Killing Sacred Cows II: Improve Orientation</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/05/25/killing-sacred-cows-ii-improve-orientation/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/05/25/killing-sacred-cows-ii-improve-orientation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 15:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dusanwriter.com/?p=508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like there&#8217;s a collective sense of standing up, shaking off the dust and cobwebs, taking a pause and reorganizing our thoughts. Sure, there&#8217;s that meme thing and maybe this stuff is all being twittered away, but I don&#8217;t twitter, or tweet, or whatever it is and I don&#8217;t follow them, too much data [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Avatar is Portable (and itsy bitsy)</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/04/13/my-avatar-is-portable-and-itsy-bitsy/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/04/13/my-avatar-is-portable-and-itsy-bitsy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dusanwriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applications and Tools]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dusanwriter.wordpress.com/?p=580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Digado for pointing out a few advances related to the development of avatars. I was particularly stunned by the animation demo coming out of RealXtend, which is increasingly pushing the boundaries of what a &#8220;grid&#8221; can do (try hosting 80+ avatars and 100,000 prims on a sim! There&#8217;s still glitches but they&#8217;re onto [...]]]></description>
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