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	<title>Dusan Writer's Metaverse &#187; Virtual worlds</title>
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	<description>Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity.</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>
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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>The Predictive Power of Virtual Worlds</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/01/01/the-predictive-power-of-virtual-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art and Exploration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Second Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linden Lab]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dusanwriter.com/?p=2662</guid>
		<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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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Geeky Goodness: The Sexy Crazy World of Research Accounting</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/10/06/geeky-goodness-the-sexy-crazy-world-of-research-accounting/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/10/06/geeky-goodness-the-sexy-crazy-world-of-research-accounting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business in Virtual Worlds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the most recent episode of Metanomics I interviewed none other than Robert Bloomfield himself for an in-depth discussion of economic theory, virtual economies and why people sometimes make stupid economic decisions. (OK, I&#8217;m not sure we actually talked about that, but if you listen hard enough I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll hear it). In the very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Second Life Content Keep Up? Server-Side Rendering and a Web-Based World</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/09/29/can-second-life-content-keep-up-server-side-rendering-and-a-web-based-world/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/09/29/can-second-life-content-keep-up-server-side-rendering-and-a-web-based-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Second Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling in a predictive mood. I suppose I&#8217;m still gasping at the luck I had in predicting a &#8216;merger&#8217; of the Teen and Main Grids a few hours before it was launched. It was a total fluke of course, but the prediction was based on, well, some facts I suppose: namely, Philip&#8217;s &#8220;what if&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metanomics Mmmmmondays: Virtual Worlds and Real-World Economies</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/09/25/metanomics-mmmmmondays-virtual-worlds-and-real-world-economies/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/09/25/metanomics-mmmmmondays-virtual-worlds-and-real-world-economies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business in Virtual Worlds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, virtual worlds have real economies too! But when Metanomics starts-up on October 4th, I&#8217;ll be a special guest host interviewing none other than Robert Bloomfield himself. Our focus will be on how virtual worlds can be used to understand real-world economies. (Any comments about Madoff or pyramid schemes will be deleted &#8211; *glances at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Side of the Story: The Web and What&#8217;s Next</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/09/07/virtual_worlds_and_the_web_next/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/09/07/virtual_worlds_and_the_web_next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deep Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media is a con. A lot of things are cons, actually. Shell games, pyramid schemes, sweatshops, or false governments. The idea of open systems can often be a con. The idea that people will contribute freely to open source projects and you don&#8217;t always need clear and thoughtful governance, transparency, and clarity of economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Mind: One on One with Philip Rosedale</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/08/19/interview-with-philip-rosedale/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/08/19/interview-with-philip-rosedale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last week&#8217;s community convention I had a chance to sit down with Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab founder and recently returned CEO of the company that runs Second Life. What was supposed to be a quick 15 minute catch up turned into close to an hour of discussion and, oddly enough, it was me who [...]]]></description>
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