{"id":675,"date":"2006-02-15T10:56:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T15:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2006-02-18T19:14:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T00:14:52","slug":"in-mixed-virtual-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"In Mixed Virtual Company *Update*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C|Net has posted a story about something which some of us are already aware. From the article (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Power+lunching+with+wizards+and+warriors\/2100-1043_3-6039669.html?tag=nefd.lede\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We Know&#8221; isn&#8217;t your father&#8217;s country club. Sure, it has about 100 members, some of them wealthy, a few of them wildly wealthy. On the membership roster are at least 10 people who have the letter &#8220;C&#8221; in their job titles. And members of this particular club say they&#8217;ve joined so they can bond with friends and other like-minded people.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s one big difference between &#8220;We Know&#8221; and famed clubs like San Francisco&#8217;s Olympic Club and the New York Athletic Club: &#8220;We Know&#8221; exists only in the virtual world. It&#8217;s one of many virtual guilds, or groups of kindred players, in the popular &#8220;World of Warcraft&#8221; online game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the other side of the social situation I wrote about last year and posted on the SL Future Salon site (<a href=\"http:\/\/slfuturesalon.blogs.com\/second_life_future_salon\/2005\/04\/the_flat_earths.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>). It&#8217;s also related to a kind of follow-up to that same piece&#8230; also on the SLFS site (<a href=\"http:\/\/slfuturesalon.blogs.com\/second_life_future_salon\/2005\/09\/avoiding_a_shor.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>). So while inside <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Second Life<\/a> I <em>might<\/em> be interacting with some kid in an underdeveloped nation, I also <em>might<\/em> be chatting with the head of some large corporation. Kinda puts the whole idea of Reputation in a new virtual light, huh?<\/p>\n<p>{WorldChanging has posted an entry on this topic which might be of interest &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/004120.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C|Net has posted a story about something which some of us are already aware. From the article (Link): &#8220;We Know&#8221; isn&#8217;t your father&#8217;s country club. Sure, it has about 100 members, some of them wealthy, a few of them wildly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=675\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}