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38 min 8 sec agoOctober 10, 2008
19:49
Joshua FairfieldYou can access the archive of last week's symposium, "Protecting Virtual Playgrounds: Children, Law, and Play Online," here. Plus, you can see Robert Bloomfield and yours truly do a little postmortem of the conference on Metanomics, here. Additional must-see-videofeed: Ted...
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October 6, 2008
16:06
Robert BloomfieldFollowing up on the great survey work by Dmitri Williams and others, posted recently on Terra Nova, I have just posted some results from a survey in Second Life. Social Research Foundation, a non-profit organization, conducted the study, and my...
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October 1, 2008
18:42
Greg LIan Lamont, who was kind enough to guest-author here a while back, alerts us to some recent comments of Craig Mundie from Microsoft. Mundie is apparently a bit under-enthused about virtual worlds as separate spaces. But, on the other hand,...
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September 29, 2008
17:59
Robert BloomfieldI had a chance to interview Philip Rosedale earlier this month, leading to a broad set of posts by bloggers who follow virtual worlds (and Second Life) pretty closely. You can see the whole thing here (with links to the...
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September 24, 2008
22:35
Greg LSan Murugesan recently e-mailed to let me know that the Cutter IT Journal has a special issue on the subject of virtual worlds. His introduction to that issue is here. A PDF of the entire issue can be acquired for...
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September 18, 2008
21:49
BonnieRubergFirst, the disclaimer: I work for Village Voice Media. Village Voice Media runs the Westword. The Westword ran this story on science museums in Second Life. Yes, I'm practicing both partiality and blatant (semi)self-promotion. Now that that's out of the...
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September 16, 2008
03:31
Thomas MalabyVia Wired comes this bit of news about the Pentagon's fears that WoW (specifically) could be used to organize a terrorist attack. This isn't the first time intelligence agencies have considered what implications virtual worlds have for terrorism, and noting...
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September 13, 2008
06:32
Nate CombsIn fifty-and-some days we will see the conclusion of a two year U.S. presidential selection process. Temperatures have been rising as we draw near the end. Rather than finding a new means of arguing one's way into someone else's bubble,...
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