Events
Monday May 12, 2008
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
On Monday, May 12 at 11 AM SLT, join Robert Bloomfield to discuss his past interview with Raven Pennyfeather, who quit her job as a mortgage compliance officer to create a very successful line of Goth and Victorian clothing in Second Life, and Nyla Cheeky, a real-life designer who is extending her brand by developing copies in Second Life. Jack Myers, a media analyst, weighs in on the challenges and opportunities of Raven and Nyla's efforts.
Tuesday May 13, 2008
Start: 3:00 pm
Get your spin on! On Tuesday, May 13, at 3 PM for Metanomics Rewind, join host Robert Bloomfield to discuss his past interview of some of the real world press who cover our virtual worlds. Bloomfield explored the attraction virtual worlds have for Reuters, CNN and CMP, with commentary from Second Life blogger Prokofy Neva. Eric Krangel represented Reuters, Rhonda Lowry represented CNN/Turner Broadcasting, and John Jainschigg represented CMP.
Monday May 19, 2008
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Monday, May 19 at 11 AM SLT, join us for a "BEST OF METANOMICS" featuring David Levine, a 23-year veteran of IBM Research. Host Rob Bloomfield explored the business implications of three-dimensional visualization, Second Life's Architecture Working Group (AWG), the OpenSim efforts to reverse-engineer private servers to work with the open-sourced Second Life viewer and Levine's perspective on the business models of Linden Lab & There.com.
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Tuesday May 20, 2008
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Join us on Tuesday, May 20, for a "BEST OF METANOMICS" featuring Professor Joshua Fairfield, who examines the limitations of the current state of contract law in virtual worlds along with host Robert Bloomfield. Fairfield specializes in the law of video games, online regulation, and virtual world economic law. Take a deeper look at Fairfield's research at the Social Science Research Network.
Monday May 26, 2008
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Join us at 11 AM SLT Monday, May 26th to discuss a Metanomics interview with Robert Gehorsam, the President of Forterra Systems, Inc. Forterra's experience with the University of Maryland's Transportation Laboratory (which is using a virtual world to train I-95 emergency response teams) led to a broader discussion of the role of simulation...which led to an interesting exploration of work being done at the University of Central Florida, and host Rob Bloomfield's favorite term of the day: "the military-entertainment complex".
Tuesday May 27, 2008
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Join us Tuesday, May 27th at 3 PM SLT for the "Best of Metanomics" interview with Ted Castronova. Edward Castronova, Associate Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University, was the first economist to examine virtual worlds. His work on synthetic economies, and Everquest in particular, have helped to define the "cyberian frontier".
Monday June 2, 2008
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Join us Monday, June 2nd, at 11 AM SLT for this BEST OF METANOMICS presentation, about virtual worlds under consideration by the U.S. House of Representatives. Dan Miller, Senior Economist of the Joint Economic Committee is trying to stay a step ahead of the IRS and Department of Homeland Security (and perhaps the SEC) before they do something unwise in regulating the metaverse. Originally broadcast 10/8/2007.
Tuesday June 3, 2008
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Join us Tuesday, June 3rd, at 3 PM SLT for this BEST OF METANOMICS presentation, Higher Education, originally broadcast in November of 2007. Host Robert Bloomfield examined the efforts of Chris Collins (University of Cincinnati) and Benn Konsynski (Emory) in using virtual worlds to pursue the goals of higher education.
Monday June 9, 2008
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Join us Monday, June 9th, at 11 AM SLT for this BEST OF METANOMICS presentation, Virtually Social. As part of CMP's week-long event Life 2.0 in March of this year, host Robert Bloomfield interviewed Nick Yee of the Palo Alto Research Center. We discussed Nick's work on how virtual environments affect the way we perceive ourselves and others; who participates in games and why; and the behavior and uses of guilds in World of Warcraft.
