Metadiversity - A view of the diversity of the metaverse(s)

Guten Tag

I've had a lot on my plate recently, but I wanted to get something posted, even if it's quick and dirty. Through @SamLawrence's Twitter posts (http://twitter.com/SamLawrence), I found TagCrowd (http://tagcrowd.com/), a tool for building tag clouds. It's intriguing, so I thought I'd see what could be gleaned from my previous postings here. This is the result:

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I'm currently reading "Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality" by Edward Castronova.

I'm only about halfway through and I know that I'll need some time to digest it, but I'll try to have some thoughts up by the end of the month. For now, let me say that it confirms my sense that virtual worlds will become a large part of the online environment. Castronova seems to think that VWs will have a much greater impact on our real world societal organization. As with the web in 1994, so with VWs now...