"For weekend reading/listening, here's the transcript of a new podcast interview with VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi for Making a Metaverse That Matters. You can listen to the whole thing above, and some favorite of my favorite are excerpts below -- on the origin of the book's title, my problem with the "open metaverse" as it's usually conceived, and my chance encounter in Second Life which transformed my view of the virtual world:" Read more on the blog.