[...] those who never read Raph’s blog post: http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/12/virtual-citizenship-association/ It’s been a while since I read Raph’s blog entry about the VCA, but IIRC he has a point. One [...]

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[...] January 13, 2007 21:08 Blog update Well, it looks like I need to have my hosting service move my account to a more updated platform in order to upgrade the site. That might delay things a week or two. Basically, the version of Perl… Source: SunSword Categories: Bloggers 15:21 Fighting to Stay on Topic Having been referred to xkcd by multiple sources, I wanted to share some of the amusing strips done there, but I was having trouble finding my gaming link. But wait, City of Heroes players, we have Hami-Os! Or close enough… And then, while typing this, I remembered that there are several strips about Katamari [...] Source: KillTenRats – Ethic Categories: Bloggers 15:05 How big is Azeroth? It takes quite some time to completely explore every corner of the World of Warcraft, Azeroth. But how big is this world in square miles or square kilometers? While other game companies brag about… Source: Tobold Categories: Bloggers 15:01 Where are you? Nate CombsUsing a new web mash-up [1.], you can view via a browser the location of a pilot in the Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network (VATSIM). Their location is offered on Google Maps along with other information on their flight plan…. Source: Terra Nova – Academics playground Categories: Bloggers 10:53 Early Vanguard Numbers Several Vanguard testers are using the who’s who and dun it command to data mine and determine how many clerics won’t be played and how many necromancer corpses to expect. To my fellow bean-counting naysayers; I agree there is no such thing as a margin of error or a notion that empirical data is beneficial! [...] Source: Pitfalls – Krones Categories: Bloggers 07:36 Hail Satan! About 60% of my music collection is encoded now. I lost about half of it a year or so ago due to a drive failure. I’m now using a 500 Gig Maxtor as a media drive for itunes TV shows and my… [...] Source: Brandon Reinhart Categories: Bloggers 02:52 Changing theme… Update: All right you floozies, poke around and tell me what’s broken, ta. …again Expect some wonkeyness as I hack and slash blindly at the code with a sledge hammer to make it how I want. -the managment Source: MMODIG – unbeliever Categories: Bloggers 02:36 Virtual Citizenship Association The Virtual Citizenship Association appears to be a recently founded group to promulgate rights for virtual world users. There isn’t a rights document per se up there yet, but it does start out by bluntly declaring that “living in a virtual world gives us the status of citizen there,” which under strict definitions seems a [...] Source: Raph's Koster Website Categories: Bloggers 02:36 The Magic Show #26 goes after Magic Online. Evan Erwin does a weekly YouTube show for StarCityGames.com called “The Magic Show.” Snappy name, eh? This week’s episode is of general interest to online game development enthusiasts. It provides a… [...] Source: Brandon Reinhart Categories: Bloggers 02:01 Comments… I opened up comments, so you don’t need to register to comment…but I hate comment spam so we’ll see how it goes. [...] Source: Brandon Reinhart Categories: Bloggers 00:07 Answers to comments about the design docs article. Lum linked my previous article and a few comments showed up on his blog. I thought I’d respond: Nicademus | 12-Jan-07 at 2:22 pm I really can’t believe that Sony or EA is going to hire someone off… [...] Source: Brandon Reinhart Categories: Bloggers [...]

And this leads to the question: Can’t you think outside the box?

[...] On the Virtual Citizenship Association which I don’t view as necessarily a rights organization as a group using the rhetoric of rights, on Raph Koster’s blog. [...]

Your ability to pull the esoteric out of your hat (unfoiled, because I admire your passion for your cause(s) sometimes) never suprises me

We shall see about that! To the success of our hopeless cause!
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[...] Raph I was reading your article on your blog with regard to Ethics boards: http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/12/virtual-citizenship-association/ You said: [...]

[...] I had a why didn’t I think of that moment seeing the headline to this Raph Koster post about a lobbying group for virtual citizens’ rights, but Koster more or less nails the problems with this particular instantiation. The group has a guaranteed-to-be-unsuccessful manifesto rather than a practical focus on effecting systemic changes thru collective bargaining power and lobbying. « DVD-AACS Copy Protection Apparently Cracked   [...]