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Virtual Worlds and Digital Divides – joining the conversation

White African noted last week that in “The Best of Blogs, “there’s a number of African blogs in there” and a lot of activity over the last month in the African blogosphere. The nominated blogs include two from Africa: Actualités de la République Démocratique du Congo in the best Weblog category Diário de um Sociólogo […]

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The Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend

Recently I participated indirectly in the The Foresight Insitute’s Vision Weekend. I joined Melanie Swan’s tour of Nanotechnology Island on Second Life which she conducted live as part of her virtual worlds presentation to the unconference. I was delighted to meet Melanie, the principal of MS Futures Group, for breakfast in New York City a […]

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What The Metaverse Can Teach The Paraverse: Don’t be boring!

Last Saturday I went to the Book Party (and after hours party) celebrating the launch of, “Second Life Herald, the Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse” by Peter Ludlow (Urizenus Sklar in SL) and Mark Wallace (Walker Spaight in SL). The book, a history of the Second Life Herald which began in […]

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