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one day the revolution came, a new era was born, the age of cumputers and internet, the age of information technology as we know it. The captains of this new industry were named the DIGERATI. Now we see the dawn of a new era filled with WEB 2.0 and immersive worlds. The days of the METARATI have come... The question remains, who are they? This question was first posed at the MindBlizzard Blog, and these are the ones nominated. Contact VeeJay Burns for more suggestions.
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Metarati Nominations 2007 |
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Written by Veejay Burns
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Friday, 21 March 2008 11:18 |
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AUTHORS
- Neil Stephenson
- William Gibson
- Cory Doctorow
- Tad Williams IMMERSIVE WORLDS
- Philip Rosendale (Linden Labs)
- Reuben Steiger (Millions of Us)
- Jerry Pfaffendorf (Electric Sheep Company)
- Ron Britvich (WebWorlds, Active Worlds) WEB 2.0
- Chad Hurley (You Tube)
- Kevin Rose (Digg)
- Reid Hoffman (Linked-in)
- Tom Anderson (MySpace)
- Meg Hourihan (Pyra / Blogger) OLD SCHOOL ADAPTORS
- Larry Page (Google)
- Irv Wladawsky-Berger (IBM)
- Bill Roper (Blizzard Entertainment) |
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The Metarati and the Metapolitans |
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Written by Veejay Burns
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Sunday, 10 June 2007 23:00 |
Lately I've seen the term metarati being picked up by several people and have seen a number of selfproclaimed metarati arise inside Second Life. On a number of occasions I think the term metarati is used inappropriately, so I'll thrown in another term today.
MetaratiWhen referring to the metarati I mean the movers and shakers of the web 3D that's coming about. These are the visionairs that are working on the metaverse roadmap, are creating new technology and are able to get investor commitment to explore new paths. The metarati are visionary technology pioneers.
Tish from the fab. Ugotrade blog also names them the mixed-reality metarati, which is an accurate combination as these are the people bridging the space from this world to the virtual one. Inside Second Life we generally consider Jerry Paffendorf, Electric Sheep Company's Futurist in residence, Philip Rosedal from Linden Labs to be members of the metarati.
For a full list of nominees see the Home of the Metarati.
MetapolitansMetapolitans, (cf. metropolitan, cosmopolitan) are the metaversal citizens of the worlds created and envisioned by the metarati, the virtual worlds like Second Life, There.com and many others.
The metapolitans are not the casual visitors of these worlds, but the ones living a largely immersed life and are often travelling between several of these worlds.
Known examples of metapolitans are mostly bloggers like 57 Miles from Metaversed, Wagner Au, the 'embedded' journalist from New World Notes, or the ones at Prokovy's Feted Inner Core list.
one offsOff course, there are always those that are impossible to categorise. Mark Wallace of the 3pointD blog has been named as a metarati, and though he has a strong influence in the public opinion on virtual worlds I'm still a bit hesitant to name him a mover, though he has my sympathy. The same goes for his wife, the fab Destroy Television. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 21 September 2008 18:41 )
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Written by Veejay Burns
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Friday, 27 April 2007 18:35 |
Well, I did a short blogpost on the Digerati... but they're all 80's guys. Their time has gone. The days of the Digerati are gone, this is the time of the Metarati...
I wonder who they are
updateSince the term is being rapidly picked up by several blogs (a.o. 3PointD, UgoTrade, Electric Sheep Company, Metaversed), Wikipediasites (3pedia and Wikipedia) and numerous Twitters entries, here's a link to the nomination site: http://www.metarati.org. |
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