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http://www.metaplace.com/TheStage/play
Head on through the doors on the second level of the lobby to the stage proper.
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I first met Jesse at an event at MIT, where we had a mutual fanboy moment. Now every time his name pops up on a TV screen I get to point it out to the kids. He’s a big thinker on transmedia — the ways in which stories can cross between many media and be “read” at ...
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Ugh, yet another country…
Last Thursday in Venezuela, a new law criminalizing “violent” video games and toys was approved by the National Assembly.
The law scapegoats gamers for the obscene levels of violence in our country (see below), and goes to extraordinary lengths ...
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Massively is reporting that WoW is caught in the battle between the Ministry of Culture and the General Administration of Press and Publication over who gets to regulate online games — and has been denied permission to operate (again).
The Ministry of Culture was, I believe, the arm of ...
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World of Warcraft
Here’s the 2 hour and 20 minute recording of the concert I did yesterday for Halloween on Metaplace. It’s all covers, and there’s plenty of awkward silences between the songs, because you can’t hear and see anything that the audience said and did while I was playing. ...
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And it will be here:
Metaplace – TheStage .
Direct stream: http://raphkoster.serverroom.us:9600
Runs from 4-pm to at least 6pm Pacific time.
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A collective of Metaplace users led by the intrepid MacZ have set up a huge Halloween event tomorrow. It kicks off at noon Pacific time in the world Riverbeer with costume contests, art displays, and a bridge to similar events in SL., proceeds to hayrides and world tours at 1pm, then Superbad ...
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This is a shoutout to my younger brother Josh ( who has featured on the blog here before ) — his firm Chong+Koster , which does political new media services, has just announced a partnership with TSE Consulting , which is a company that deals with what can only be called the politics of ...
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Slideshows from the Virtual Goods Summit are starting to pop up, and here two that I found so far:
Virtual Goods: Why & How They Work by Amy Jo Kim, all about them motivations behind virtual goods purchases.
Virtual Goods: Why & How They Work
View more presentations from ...
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Are video games good for your health? – CNN.com . It’s one of those slideshow dealies. Among the anecdotes:
Playing games can cure “lazy eye” better than an eye patch
Training with Wii Fit and Wii Sports improved balance in Parkinson’s patients
Always ...
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Virtual World Watch has a request for information up — they want to hear from you about how you use virtual worlds in UK higher and further education.
The question
How are you using virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life, OpenSim, Metaplace, OLIVE, Active Worlds, Playstation Home, Blue ...
