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	<title>ARGology</title>
	<link>http://www.argology.org</link>
	<description>About Alternate Reality Games, an initiative of the IGDA ARG SIG</description>
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		<title>Take the ARG Demographic Survey!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to announce that the IGDA ARG SIG is conducting our first-ever demographic survey! We also have an added treat for those of us involved in ARG production &#8212; a short salary survey. When the survey is concluded, we&#8217;ll release the results in aggregate so everybody can poke at the data for themselves.
Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.argology.org/2010/02/11/take-the-arg-demographic-survey/</link>
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		<title>Lessons from ARGfest 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ARGfest 2009 came and went the weekend of July 17-19 in Portland, Oregon. Many prominent players and practitioners were there, and many a deep thought was thunk by those in attendance. Mike Monello of Campfire Media captured a pencast of the panels, though a full DVD should be available soon, as well &#8212; keep checking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.argology.org/2009/07/27/lessons-from-argfest-2009/</link>
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		<title>Keys to Pitching an ARG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently on the IGDA ARG SIG list,  the inestimable Brian Clark of GMD Studios offered some wisdom on pitching an ARG or similar campaign to a client. The conversation revolved around the reluctance of agencies and clients to innovate in South America, but the information applies anywhere in the world. Following is what he had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.argology.org/2009/07/10/keys-to-pitching-an-arg/</link>
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		<title>ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0 &#8211; A European ARG for Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joel Josephson, executive director of the educational website Kindersite, writes:
We recently completed the final pilot of the European Union funded education project ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0..  This project has built an ARG to promote language learning in secondary school students called &#8216;The Tower of Babel&#8217;&#8230;We will be presenting academic papers on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.argology.org/2009/05/17/arguing-for-multilingual-motivation-in-web-20-a-european-arg-for-education/</link>
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		<title>ARG Archives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the main features of ARGs, as anyone interested in them will tell you, is that they deal with &#8220;collective intelligence&#8221; (or, as JC Hutchins puts it, &#8220;bunches of brains&#8221;).  The idea is to get lots of people together, thinking about the content and contributing their ideas.  Very often the players create a place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.argology.org/2008/11/13/arg-archives/</link>
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		<title>Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Media studies patriarch Henry Jenkins recently interviewd David Edery and Ethan Mollick, authors of the newly released Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business.
Part 1 of the interview
Part 2 of the interview
Part 2 is particularly interesting (for us) for its mention of ARGs, including the question &#8220;As you note, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.argology.org/2008/11/07/changing-the-game-how-video-games-are-transforming-the-future-of-business/</link>
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		<title>[Event] ARGs in Charity and Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The inimitable Adrian Hon recently announced the world&#8217;s first conference on ARGs in Charity and Education, to be Friday 5th December, in London. From the website:
With sessions and panels by leading ARG designers, academics and educators in the field, this conference is an exceptional introduction to &#8217;serious ARGs&#8217;. For developers and commissioners of ARGs, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.argology.org/2008/10/21/args-in-charity-and-education/</link>
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		<title>Official Launch of ARGology!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello! This website is the product of efforts from the International Game Developers Association Alternate Reality Game Special Interest Group (IGDA ARG SIG) &#8212; whew! It was born out of the desire to provide key information about the very well known but little understood format of &#8216;alternate reality games&#8217;, and this first iteration (many more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.argology.org/2008/07/18/official-launch-of-argology/</link>
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		<title>[Event] One Week to ARGFest-o-Con!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right, only seven days until the start of ARGFest-o-Con, the ARG fan community convention. There will be all sorts of ARG-related presentations, panels and events&#8230;and probably a few surprises as well. There&#8217;s still time to register, so if you can make it to Boston next week&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.argology.org/2008/07/11/event-one-week-to-argfest-o-con/</link>
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		<title>[Admin] More about roles, Posts and Pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that Authors cannot write or edit Pages, only Editors can do that. There&#8217;s probably a plugin to assign capabilities in a less granular fashion, and I&#8217;ll find it if there&#8217;s demand; until then, though, we&#8217;ll just make people working on Pages into Editors.
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		<link>http://www.argology.org/2008/07/10/admin-more-about-roles-posts-and-pages/</link>
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