The Future of News…

“Getting the story out first” often means what you’re getting is improperly researched half-truths. Take the swine-flu for example: Every day the news stories I watched and read would contradict their own announcements the day before, the media built up its own hype until it got to the point that the only real news left [...]

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Got Hypergraphia..?

Do you feel the compulsive need to write down everything you think – to Twitter or Plurk or blog every damn thought and action? I know a fair few people who seem to think they’ll stop existing if they don’t. Maybe the fact that this is my third blog post today is telling me something [...]

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Do not go gentle into that good night…

When you leave Second Life should you be doing it quietly – without good-byes, without explanation, without reflecting on your experiences? Are you meant to quietly slip away as if those weeks, months, years, were nothing? If you speak out you risk having the post being called a “flounce” apparently.
A recent post by Prad bothered [...]

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Being Popular, Being Right, or Being Happy..?

It’s a timeless question: Would you rather be right or be popular? You find examples of the struggle in everyday life and in historical events (for example holding fast to the idea the world is round when everyone else held it was flat). You often get people conflating the two together: Being popular is being [...]

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Prad Prathivi

I’ve often considered doing a post solely about Prad, but the same problem kept coming up: When do I write it? He keeps doing new awesome things for me and I knew if I wrote one he’d just do something else awesome and I’d have to write another post. My whole blog could have ended [...]

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I’m lazy cause I’m busy :)

Until recently I was making sure that every night I alternated between posting a picture to Flickr, and writing a new post here – so that I was consistently contributing to both. Flickr’s right pissing me off lately because it’s removed almost every favourite I’ve ever had added to my pictures, which is an annoying [...]

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Viewing the nothing is fun..?

Very late last night I set my blog to be empty – set all the posts to private. I did the same for my Flickr (I also took off the link to my blog on my Flickr profile, so that won’t explain what I’m about to tell you…). Very early this morning I went through [...]

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Keeping up with Second Life news

Most Second Life residents don’t know what’s going on at Linden Labs – the changing personalities, policies and major decisions – and most simply don’t care either. They live their daily Second lives the same way most people live their real lives – equally ambivalent and uncaring about the politics that run their world, and [...]

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Keeping Blog “Errors”: Where to draw the line, and consequences

I was talking with a friend the other day about my tendency to remove posts that I would consider too controversial or personal. I’ve found ways around this tendency lately and would say I’ve stopped it altogether, but it wasn’t until that particular conversation that I knew for sure why I should leave up my [...]

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Gender-Bender

I tire of reading posts that state that gender in Second Life is irrelevant; that we simply do not need to know whether someone is male or female. It’s always stated with a sort of righteous air, that the writer is ever so liberal and evolved and why can’t we just see the light too! [...]

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