While at AGC, I was also a panel with Cory Ondrejka of Second Life, Corey Bridges of Multiverse, Mark Wallace of 3pointd.com, moderated by Jerry Paffendorf of the Metaverse Roadmap Project. The topic was “the future of virtual worlds,” and it had a decidedly non-gaming emphasis.

The audio of this panel is now available at Mark’s site.

My biggest concern with the panel is that it was so orthogonal to the largely gamer audience that was present. Most folks there had not heard of Second Life, even. I wish we had had someone who was more a representative of the current game world mindset on the panel.

So today, Abalieno/HRose announced that he’s done.

My biggest dream was to be part of things. Not because I thought of myself as the indispensable, unique genius, but just because I love those things and I wanted to be “there”. … But at the end I was here writing on a blog, it was the best possibility I had to get as close I could to what I loved (the ladder to see the stars)…

Real life is only a matter of opportunities, not dreams. The two rarely meet each other, and in general people put their dreams close to the opportunities.

So good luck to everyone who has that “privilege” of being there. I will always look at you with envy ;p

I, for one, think that he was there, and that he’s selling himself short.

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I have now posted the slides to my AGC 2006 talk “The Age of the Dinosaurs.” I recommend that they be read in tandem with f13’s liveblog.

Another AGC write-up of a session, this one by Darniaq for the Jon Grande/Rich Vogel talk “Challenges Facing MMOGs.” Alas, it’s not a liveblog, but the tradeoff is that instead you get the details interspersed with Darniaq’s cogent commentary.

Which also means it’s on the front page of CNN.com.