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The Archives
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02.28.09Narrow Walks in Wild Gardens: Explaining Virtual WorldsAt some point we try to explain ourselves. Maybe it's a room mate or a partner or someone at the office. And there are lots of reasons WHY we want to explain ourselves: maybe we want to share the passion, or feel like we have to justify the time we spend, or else, more and more, because we believe in it, we've seen it and felt it, and we know that there are things we can do that we can't do anywhere else, and we want other people in the world to understand that as well. So you end up trying ...
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12.12.08Immersive Workspaces, Second Life and the State of My ConfusionIn 1997 I sold sponsorship for the above Web site. At the time, it was kind of like selling an ad for Wal*Mart in the pages of Playboy - not only did I need to explain what it was, I needed to tell them, well look, don't worry, your ad will be at the back, forget all the REST of the content, and for good measure we'll seal the ad off with a little lock or whatever and only approved folks will know that you've somehow been associated with, um, well, the rest of it. Maybe in my little corner of ...
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