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Virtual Jungle: Boom and Bust
http://dantonsideways.blogspot.com/2008/10/boom-and-bust.html
Friday, 31 October 2008. Over the past year and a half my Internet activity has followed the same general cycle as the stock market. Both rose progressively to greater and greater heights, finally reaching an unsustainable peak - and then rapidly dropped down to a fraction of their former levels. But it now seems to have levelled off. So I began studying Search Engine Optimization. But I soon got bogged down in Wikipedia edit wars. Then in late November of 2007 I discovered Second Life. I started the pre...
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Virtual Jungle: Fast Forward Part 1
http://dantonsideways.blogspot.com/2010/03/fast-forward-part-1.html
Friday, 5 March 2010. Fast Forward Part 1. In May of 2009 I gave up reviewing long-past meetings of the Representative Assembly. RA) of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators. CDS) The five instalments of the CDS Chronicles. Reviewed the RA meetings from 3 August 2008 to 9 November 2008. But it soon became clear that the account was falling further and further behind instead of catching up to the present. And the fifth instalment. Was followed with silence. Representative Assembly of 23 November 2008.
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Virtual Jungle: Demerging
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010. I'm going to take a break from my series of posts about the Representative Assembly. To comment on the demerging. Of CDS and Al Andalus. I'm still a full year behind in writing my summaries of CDS Representative Assembly. Meetings. My post-before-last. Was about the very first meeting of the merged entity. And before I could even recapitulate that year of merger, this experiment in inter-community cooperation has ended – in failure. How I Learned the news. AA has left the CDS.
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Virtual Jungle: Danton's Real Life User Guide
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Sunday, 5 September 2010. Danton's Real Life User Guide. It seems that I've given up on my series of posts about the. Meetings of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators. My disappointment at the failure of the merger. Of CDS with Al Andalus. Obviously has something to do with it. For the moment I've turned my attention to another project: Danton's Real Life User Guide. In fact, Danton's Real Life User Guide. For popular consumption. As I explain on the website: "A mental toolkit is a collection o...
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Virtual Jungle: Less is More
http://dantonsideways.blogspot.com/2014/01/less-is-more.html
Thursday, 9 January 2014. I think I might get a bit involved in Second Life again. Internet engagement tends to be cyclic, as I already observed back in 2008 in a post entitled Boom and Bust. It now appears that one’s level of participation can go through both short cycles and long cycles. My first long cycle of engagement in Second Life lasted, with a few minor interruptions, from my avatar’s birth. In late 2007 to the time of my last prior post. In general, it seems that the higher you plan to fly on t...
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Virtual Jungle: Troubled Sleep
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Saturday, 12 January 2008. What do you do if your socialist theme park gets flash-mobbed. Now that the Real Danton. Has stood up, he can let it all hang out. I've been sleeping fitfully lately. One night as I nodded off, I was seized with the vision that my real life had always been virtual, and that only my Second Life was real. The following morning I awoke out of a frightful nightmare, in which an army of cyborgs. Was trying to destroy Neufreistadt and the Confederation of Democratic Sims. What if a h...
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Virtual Jungle: The Limits of Virtual Democracy
http://dantonsideways.blogspot.com/2011/05/limits-of-virtual-democracy.html
Wednesday, 11 May 2011. The Limits of Virtual Democracy. I joined the Confederation of Democratic Simulators (CDS). In December 2007, when my Avatar was just a few weeks old. I participated actively in CDS until the failure of the merger. In the summer of 2010. At that point I pretty much dropped out of any involvement in CDS, though it took me a while to announce officially my withdrawal from certain functions. In August 2010 I quit CSDF. The democratic apparatus of CDS. Then meets regularly (generally ...
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Virtual Jungle: Swept Away
http://dantonsideways.blogspot.com/2008/04/swept-away.html
Monday, 14 April 2008. I've been sucked into the maelstrom of brutal politics within the Confederation of Democratic Sims. A few short months ago I discovered. What seemed to be the sleepy little virtual democracy of CDS, and took up residence in a corner of the Colonia Nova. On the CDS forum, which contained a rather bitter debate between Michel, founder of the CARE faction. And certain members of CSDF. In the middle of the thread, Michel posted the following comment, dated December 25th:. Patroklus Mur...
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Virtual Jungle: CDS News – the 20th RA Part 2
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Monday, 10 February 2014. CDS News – the 20th RA Part 2. The first full meeting of the 20th Representative Assembly. Took place on 3 December 2012. (See the CDS forum for the proposed agenda. RA meeting of 3 December 2012. Bagheera Kristan gave the Chancellor’s report, mostly presenting ideas about how to remodel Locus Amoenus, which he said should be possible without requiring easements on existing parcels. Then came a discussion of the Grievance Committee mechanism that had been proposed. On the CDS fo...
