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		<title>Governance in Virtual Worlds</title>
		<link>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2010/03/27/governance-in-virtual-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fleep</dc:creator>
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On Friday, March 26th, I participated in the Governance in Virtual Worlds 2010 conference sponsored by the Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor College of Law and World2Worlds.  The conference description:
Virtual worlds and online games are used by millions of people around  the world for recreation, corporate and academic conferencing, formal  education, research, training and charitable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Game Devs Engineer the Real World &#8211; You Brushed Your Teeth, +5 points!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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The concept of &#8220;Life as a Game&#8221; is certainly not a new one, when I was a kid, the game of Life was my favorite board game of all time.  I still remember the thrill of filling up my little car with boy and girl babies I imagined I&#8217;d have  at some point in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fleep</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day, with thanks to @DavidPepper for the link, I post Dr. King&#8217;s &#8221; Letter from a Birmingham Jail&#8221; written in 1963.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever read the letter in its entirety, but I&#8217;m glad I took the time to do it.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PBS Video &amp; A La Carte Education?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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This post was inspired by a video I recently watched on the web.  I was tickled pink to discover that @pbs is placing their video collection online.  Time and again I see PBS innovating and using technology in new and meaningful ways, and this is no exception (though, please, I want to embed, PBS!) &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Economic Crisis &#8211; &#8220;Privatizing Gains, Socializing Losses&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2008/09/21/us-economic-crisis-privatizing-gains-socializing-losses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2008/09/21/us-economic-crisis-privatizing-gains-socializing-losses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fleep</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quote in the title of this post comes from Gretchen Morgenson, who writes the MarketWatch column for the Sunday New York Times, on the 9/19/08 episode of PBS&#8217; Bill Moyers Journal.  Watch it.

I am so thoroughly disturbed by the current state of affairs in the US economy that I must put all political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin on Twitter:  Shock, GenY Response, &amp; Misogyny</title>
		<link>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2008/08/30/palin-on-twitter-shock-geny-response-misogyny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fleep</dc:creator>
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Want to know what netizens are thinking about John McCain&#8217;s pick for VP, Sarah Palin?
Click here.
Left, right, center, confused, mainstream media, international &#8211; one of the wonderful things about Twitter is that you get a truly bizarre cross-section commentary from anyone with a Twitter account.
I&#8217;ve been addicted to watching the scroll this morning, in fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Addresses NAACP in Cincinnati</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was quite bummed to miss the rally tonight for Obama&#8217;s address to the NAACP (had family obligations).  Local media broadcast the speech to a crowd in downtown Fountain Square, and local media reports a couple thousand people showed up.
Unfortunately I can&#8217;t embed the video directly here and it&#8217;s not yet up on YouTube, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Moyers: A Patriot&#8217;s Dream</title>
		<link>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2008/06/22/bill-moyers-a-patriots-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2008/06/22/bill-moyers-a-patriots-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t recall a speech that seemed more urgent for anyone who cares about democracy to hear.  This is one to listen to when you have the time to really think about what he&#8217;s saying.

I often get lazy with my blogging.  It&#8217;s hard to make time for it, I&#8217;m sometimes afraid of posting [...]]]></description>
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