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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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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Being Seen

After an intense (and gotta say, somewhat unpleasant) chat with a SL friend today, I feel I have to do a quick post on a topic which is bound to recur in my blog: Being seen, being noticed, getting attention. The friend suggested those things are people’s principal motivation for blogging and putting pictures up on Flickr. [...]

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Lessons in Blogging

I just finished watching a national TV item that was talking to some of my country’s top bloggers, about our election on Saturday. At one point there was a roving reporter’s piece asking people off the street whether blogs influenced their decision of who to vote for, and it was 10 for 10 that no it [...]

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SL, SL Flickr, & SL Blogging

When I first joined SL I had no appreciation of how much of my life it would become, and I definitely had no awareness of how much my SL persona would come to exist in webpages external to the game. I thought Landsend Korobase would be a SL-only entity, it never crossed my mind that [...]

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