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		<title>Several Stories Catching My Eye</title>
		<link>http://danseamans.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/several-stories-catching-my-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Council of Stellar Management
A new era of community/developer interaction opens with the announcement that a democratically elected council of players is to be established in EVE Online.  A total of 14 players will be elected from the quarter of a million strong community in May, forming a conduit between community and EVE Online developer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danseamans.wordpress.com&blog=2757931&post=53&subd=danseamans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journeys into Virtual Worlds conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 19th I presented a session “Virtual Worlds – The Bigger Picture” at a regional JISC event titled “Journeys into Virtual Worlds”.  My main aim with the session was to compare a number of exemplar virtual worlds (Lord of the Rings Online, Second Life and Croquet) and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of each with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danseamans.wordpress.com&blog=2757931&post=52&subd=danseamans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A at CalState</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early hours of Wednesday morning I attended a Q&#38;A session at the invite of Penny Semrau from California State University, Los Angeles.  The hour long session on the ISTE Island in Second Life was attended by students from the Instructional Technology MA program, most of whom are K-12 teachers by day.  (As a side [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danseamans.wordpress.com&blog=2757931&post=50&subd=danseamans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Linden Labs introduce new Second Life interface</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linden Labs are releasing a new First Look client branch by the name of Dazzle.  Featuring an improved user interface it doesn’t look like anything more than a cosmetic change at this stage, not that a cosmetic change is at all unwelcome.  However Linden Labs appear to be suggesting this viewer branch will also tidy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danseamans.wordpress.com&blog=2757931&post=48&subd=danseamans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8211; machinima style</title>
		<link>http://danseamans.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/happy-valentines-day-machinima-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A delightful piece of World of Warcraft machinima for Valentine&#8217;s Day. 

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		<title>Releasing unfinished games</title>
		<link>http://danseamans.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/releasing-unfinished-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budgets are running low, publishers are demanding units on shelves (or the virtual equivalent) and games end up being released in a less than polished state.  Some may argue this has been going on for years.  My concern is that that this is becoming less of an unwelcome result of poorly managed projects and publisher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danseamans.wordpress.com&blog=2757931&post=46&subd=danseamans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Text to Speech Widget</title>
		<link>http://danseamans.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/text-to-speech-widget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve discussed with colleagues many times my frustrations with voice communication in virtual worlds.  My view is that real-time voice communication in games like the Battlefield Series improve the game experience no end.  However virtual worlds like World of Warcraft or Second Life are both places where the user may choose to create an alter-ego in preference to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danseamans.wordpress.com&blog=2757931&post=45&subd=danseamans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Making of Schome Park Beta &#8211; an illustrated overview</title>
		<link>http://danseamans.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/the-making-of-schome-park-beta-an-illustrated-overview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago I finished building Schome Park Beta.  Since then I&#8217;ve collated some of the images taken during the design and build process and have put these together with my summary of the process on their own page, The Making of Schome Park Beta.  If you want to get a glimpse inside my approach to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danseamans.wordpress.com&blog=2757931&post=44&subd=danseamans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome</title>
		<link>http://danseamans.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post to say welcome!  I&#8217;ve moved my blog (along with what I felt were the most important posts from the last year) to this new location, and given it a bit of a shine in the process.  Make sure you subscribe to the feed so you don&#8217;t miss anything.
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		<title>Republished: Schome Park 2008</title>
		<link>http://danseamans.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/republished-schome-park-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared on Dan&#8217;s Glass Houses blog on January 25th, 2008.
The Schome project has re-opened in 2008 by doubling its presence in Second Life.  A second island compliments the one original island that has seen the project through its first two phases (dating back to March 2007).  In this third phase of the project [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danseamans.wordpress.com&blog=2757931&post=3&subd=danseamans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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