{"id":140,"date":"2005-05-09T12:41:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T17:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=140"},"modified":"2024-06-12T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T22:29:00","slug":"worldchanging-notices-virtual-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"WorldChanging Notices Virtual Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a recent reader of the Worldchanging.com website, but the tone of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/002665.html\">this article<\/a> they&#8217;ve recently posted suggests their recent recognition of the potential in virtual worlds and their economies. Of particular interest to me however was the comment that <strong>reputation<\/strong> is a crucial element of these online activities; and that a positive reputation carries forward and sometimes outward into the real world. Sounds alot like some comments I read a couple years ago about Chinese business practices; how even with so few mechanisms in place (China is still communist after all) Chinese businessmen managed to do just fine using the best and oldest tools available: reputation and word-of-mouth.<\/p>\n<p>I was glad to read that about &#8220;reputation&#8221; and to be reminded of that Chinese article. It&#8217;s a short read with plenty of links. Might be worth your time if you&#8217;re still new to the whole virtual thang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a recent reader of the Worldchanging.com website, but the tone of this article they&#8217;ve recently posted suggests their recent recognition of the potential in virtual worlds and their economies. Of particular interest to me however was the comment that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=140\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[106,151,104,116],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-metaverse","tag-reputation","tag-virtualgoods","tag-virtualworlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}