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	<title>Comments on: Linden Lab Acts Like A Business</title>
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		<title>By: Business in Virtual Worlds News Roundup - Jan 19-25 2009 &#171; Caleb Booker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Business in Virtual Worlds News Roundup - Jan 19-25 2009 &#171; Caleb Booker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Life Creators Purchase Startups To Push Virtual Goods Online Mentioned this earlier in the week but thought it was worth linking this. Fun stats on virtual goods [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Caleb Booker</title>
		<link>http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2009/01/21/linden-lab-acts-like-a-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1937</link>
		<dc:creator>Caleb Booker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>*bzzzt*, David&#039;s been moderated. No idea if that&#039;s his real name as I&#039;d never heard of him, but I suspect someone&#039;s just upset I don&#039;t promote their stuff. I get a lot of that.
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Hi P, let me just expand on the &quot;I remove whatever comments I want&quot; notion. There are some basic things I saw in David&#039;s posts:

1) He seemed to think I was of the opposite opinion that the blog post actually states. At the very least read carefully before commenting.
2) He was insulting a number of times in ways that didn&#039;t enhance his point at all.
3) When warned about rudeness, he rebutted with a claim that he had every right to be.
4) There was no actual substance to his comments beyond &quot;Nuh-unh!&quot;

Taken independently none of these things are really a concern and I tend to let it go. Little things are no big deal. See http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2008/12/14/business-in-virtual-worlds-news-roundup-dec-8-14-2008/ for example.

Taken together, however, science calls this &quot;trolling&quot;. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

Now, I know that some would have me engage David and bring him up to speed, but I&#039;m a very busy man and if he wants me to spend that much time on him he&#039;ll have to pay my consulting fee like everyone else.

Also, I realize some would like me to publish an &quot;official policy&quot; on this, but really if you&#039;re acting like a business person it&#039;s practically impossible to get moderated here. Besides, at no time have I ever called this blog an &quot;official&quot; anything. It&#039;s CalebBooker.com, and I make no apologies for that.
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RE: What is Clever Zebra up to?

Our most recent work has been in the area of facilitating privately held company meetings. It seems many companies are achieving a very large ROI on this. Necessarily, however, this means signing NDAs so we can&#039;t publish much about it.

Public events were fun and we may do them again, but for now we&#039;re only planning on doing so as a white label service if there are companies out there looking to have a virtual event under their corporate banner.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*bzzzt*, David&#8217;s been moderated. No idea if that&#8217;s his real name as I&#8217;d never heard of him, but I suspect someone&#8217;s just upset I don&#8217;t promote their stuff. I get a lot of that.<br />
&#8212;</p>
<p>Hi P, let me just expand on the &#8220;I remove whatever comments I want&#8221; notion. There are some basic things I saw in David&#8217;s posts:</p>
<p>1) He seemed to think I was of the opposite opinion that the blog post actually states. At the very least read carefully before commenting.<br />
2) He was insulting a number of times in ways that didn&#8217;t enhance his point at all.<br />
3) When warned about rudeness, he rebutted with a claim that he had every right to be.<br />
4) There was no actual substance to his comments beyond &#8220;Nuh-unh!&#8221;</p>
<p>Taken independently none of these things are really a concern and I tend to let it go. Little things are no big deal. See <a href="http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2008/12/14/business-in-virtual-worlds-news-roundup-dec-8-14-2008/" rel="nofollow">http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2008/12/14/business-in-virtual-worlds-news-roundup-dec-8-14-2008/</a> for example.</p>
<p>Taken together, however, science calls this &#8220;trolling&#8221;. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll</a></p>
<p>Now, I know that some would have me engage David and bring him up to speed, but I&#8217;m a very busy man and if he wants me to spend that much time on him he&#8217;ll have to pay my consulting fee like everyone else.</p>
<p>Also, I realize some would like me to publish an &#8220;official policy&#8221; on this, but really if you&#8217;re acting like a business person it&#8217;s practically impossible to get moderated here. Besides, at no time have I ever called this blog an &#8220;official&#8221; anything. It&#8217;s CalebBooker.com, and I make no apologies for that.<br />
&#8212;</p>
<p>RE: What is Clever Zebra up to?</p>
<p>Our most recent work has been in the area of facilitating privately held company meetings. It seems many companies are achieving a very large ROI on this. Necessarily, however, this means signing NDAs so we can&#8217;t publish much about it.</p>
<p>Public events were fun and we may do them again, but for now we&#8217;re only planning on doing so as a white label service if there are companies out there looking to have a virtual event under their corporate banner.</p>
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		<title>By: P Davlin</title>
		<link>http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2009/01/21/linden-lab-acts-like-a-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1936</link>
		<dc:creator>P Davlin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Caleb, although I don&#039;t normally comment, deleting what you don&#039;t like makes a mockery of your opinion. Your self editing, this is not a good thing for a blogger, please stay credible.

I have always been a fan of Clever Zebra, you&#039;re work on free builds was a great attempt. Although, not too sure where that is now? Are you guys still trading?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Caleb, although I don&#8217;t normally comment, deleting what you don&#8217;t like makes a mockery of your opinion. Your self editing, this is not a good thing for a blogger, please stay credible.</p>
<p>I have always been a fan of Clever Zebra, you&#8217;re work on free builds was a great attempt. Although, not too sure where that is now? Are you guys still trading?</p>
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		<title>By: Lowell Cremorne</title>
		<link>http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2009/01/21/linden-lab-acts-like-a-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1933</link>
		<dc:creator>Lowell Cremorne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s also the fact the the slogan still appears on thousand of pages on the SL site, including the resident login screen.....</description>
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