What happens in SL stays in SL

I was thoinking about the businesses that people start up in SL or other virtual worlds.  That got me thinking about this word again that I invented (as far as I know). Digital + Indigenous= “Digindigenous.”  Prounced as “dij-in-dij-en-us.”  It is growing on me.  For example, a norm that emerges in SL (as opposed to [...]

Discussion of governance at TN blog

Here is an interesting discussion of governance over at TN blog.
The premise is to compare Internet to VW governance and see how VWs differ.  Sensible approach (! one I am using!).
Reading it did make me wonder if we are using governance More broadly than it is usually used.  The post author, Ren Reynolds, is looking [...]

Practicing trust and VWs

Terra Nova: Practicing trust
Here it strikes me that MMOs sit in a sweet spot between being different enough as a practice to externalize, among other thing, acts of trust and kindness. Yet familiar enough in terms of the generic nature of what’s going on for those acts to have emotional impact – at least some [...]

Conference leads for Ted

Possible conference venues for SL paper… Some may be for next year assuming they repeat.
Social Aaspects of Web
Computer Human Interaction fro Managing IT:
Economics and Finance modeling- see mostly the idea of emergence in complex systems.  Thats our emergent layer.
Tools for participation. This one is more about VW as place for collaboration or new forms [...]

Peer-Reviewed Journals – SaLamanderWiki

Peer-Reviewed Journals – SaLamanderWiki
Aha!  A list of peer-reviewed journals.  That is nice to see since I am trying to publish an article about SL.  I wonder about SSRN?  Something else I ave been meaning  to check out.
First Monday as on my radar screen.  Ted, the others…?