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Metaverse Museum? Guest Post on Second Life and Museums by Sibley Verbeck

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In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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What is Twitter, Really? And Can it Do Anything for Museums?

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There's a more measured article about twitter from the MIT Technology Review that gets beyond the hype to talk about twitter's functionality. This means that you can broadcast messages to a group of friends/followers from your phone, your IM service, or the web, and can receive messages similarly. They are dropping eggs over there!

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