A Mini-Rant on Privacy and Identity
One of the peculiarities of the electronic environment is that people become so profoundly involved in each other that they lose that sense of private identity. Marshal McLuhan
The future McLuhan saw germinating in the late 1960s is growing like a weed today within the electronic garden of pervasive social networking. The identities we once fashioned [...]
Don’t All Those Stupid Opinions People Post On Blogs Make You Mad?
Dear Humans,
Do you ever find yourself getting pissed off about the stupid opinions people express in blog posts? Are there particular topics that get under your skin so bad that you’re compelled to write scathing blog comments to cut the culprits down to size? If so, today’s your lucky day. Because I’m here with a [...]
Virtual Property Rights Manifesto: Consumers, Copybots and Common Sense
The only way for consumers to protect virtual property acquired in Second Life and gain full control of legally acquired resources is to copy digital assets to their own hard drives. For most inventory items, this requires logging into Second Life with one of the copybot clients that circumvent Digital Rights Management (DRM) limitations. There are two compelling [...]
Disclaimer
The views expressed by characters in Botgirl’s comics are works of fiction so as best to chase after living truth. As a fictional character herself, Botgirl reserves the right to contradict herself, repeatedly if necessary, for the purpose of challenging rigid opinions, transcending limited perspectives and for the sheer joy of it.
That said, [...]
