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Is Freebase from Metaweb going to be what Cyc could have become? Shall the two merge?

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Freebase merges the bottom up approach of the social web, with the hierarchies of directories, and the orderliness of traditional relational databases to help ‘organize the world’s knowledge’. (If that sounds familiar, it is because that is what Google is blindly about, with algorithms that are striving to see with barely formed eyes under heavy […]

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Sony’s PlayStation Home validates, and pushes Second Life model

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The blogosphere is abuzz (thanks, Massimo!) with the announcement at the Game Developers Conference of PlayStation Home, their take on shared online virtual worlds. Without having had the time to read about it enough, my guess is that the implementation will be flawless, the number of participants huge, the graphics stunning. And since it will

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Participatory Democracy

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I am attending, from within Second Life, the conference “Beyond Broadcast 2007 – from Participatory Culture to Participatory Democracy” at MIT, organized by the Comparative Media Studies of MIT, the Yale Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of the Harvard Law School. “For 50 years broadcast media have played a

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Transcript of my lecture in Second Life on the Democracy in Virtual Worlds

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Here is the transcript of my inaugural lecture of the Craedo Auditorium in Colonia Nova in Second Life: Welcome to this seminar about “The theory and practice of democracy in virtual worlds”. I want to thank CARE, CRAEDO, and the Confederation of Democratic Simulators for inviting me to give this talk at the inauguration of

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Come to listen to the Inaugural Lecture of the CRAEDO Auditorium in Colonia Nova

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On Feb 10 at 12 PM SLT (SLT = Second Life Time = PST = Pacific Standard Time = GMT-8) at the inauguration of the CRAEDO Auditorium I will hold a talk entitled “The Theory And Practive Of Democracy In Virtual Worlds”. You can read the invitation that Michel Manen*, posted on the Confederation of

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