Julian Dibbell is going to be speak­ing at RIT this Wednes­day. Julian, an asso­ciate editor at Wired, is an awe­some guy and some­one whose been involved in, and writ­ing about, cyber­cul­ture for years. His latest work, Play Money, is an explo­ration of the var­i­ous eco­nomic sys­tems that have devel­oped in var­i­ous vir­tual spaces. At RIT he’ll be speak­ing on “Ludocapitalism – A few ways of making real money from a vir­tual econ­omy, and what they mean.”

I first met while at the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago. Julian’s input was really help­ful for me while writ­ing my thesis. We touched base again late last year at the Amer­i­can Anthro­po­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion Con­fer­ence. Again, I got a lot out of the con­ver­sa­tion. So if you’ve got the chance, come out and hear him speak.

Here are the offi­cial details:

Julian Dibbell

• Topic: Ludo­cap­i­tal­ism – A few ways of making real money from a vir­tual econ­omy, and what they mean
• Time: 7:30pm (the talk will be fol­lowed by open q&a time from 8:30-9)
• Loca­tion: Lib­eral Arts (Bld 6), Room A205

I’ve been test­ing the new Word­press inter­face for a while and just think it’s da bombi­est! The user inter­face is clean, the new func­tions rock, and the .php seems pretty opti­mized (every­thing run­ning faster, even on my slow server).

It’s amaz­ing to think that I’m already done with the first three weeks of my final quar­ter at RIT. It’s been intense — and the reason that I’ve not been blog­ging. By the end of this coming week, I’ll be able to pre­mier all the stuff that I’ve been work­ing on.