Google Buzz Overtakes Facebook in Race to Bottom of Privacy Barrel
Google Buzz launched this week with default privacy settings that publicly disclose a user’s most frequent chat and e-mail partners. If that wasn’t bad enough, they buried opt-out settings so deeply that it takes an 11 step tutorial to find your way through the counter-intuitive maze of links leading to the required pages. You’d think the company that [...]
A Sneek Peak at a Music Video on The Migration of Identity
Back in May of last year, I created the image below to accompany a post on “Identity Surfing Within and Between Worlds“. I’m in the process of transforming the original concept into a 3D visualization that will be used in a music video for the fourworlds song, “Revolver.” The video below is just a [...]
I Won’t Play Your Sex Games or Fight Your Fashion Wars
Although I appreciate (my imagination’s version of) the sentiment behind the barrage of Facebook invitations pictured, I have to just say no.
I’ve been lovingly referred to as Spock-like, so I realize that it’s quite possible I’m just missing some human ability to enjoy such activities. If so, I’m grateful.
Modern existence offers an endless menu of [...]
Mixed Reality Art Show and Dueling Tag Clouds
I’ve recently accepted an invitation to participate in a mixed reality art exhibition. I’ll be leading one of five teams creating 1/2 sim installations in Second Life that will be captured via machinima and still imagery for presentation in a number of RL galleries. My topic is “The Ambiguity of Identity.” I’ll provide more details [...]
Plurk Goes Crazy for Fake Lindens Today Thanks to ArminasX Saiman
ArminasX Saiman started a micro-fad on Plurk today by changing his display name to Armi Linden. Chaos erupted as Second Life Plurkers began channeling fake Lindens and posting all kinds of ROLF messages.
A few were displeased and one notable person whose name I won’t mention here dropped all of the participants from his timeline.
Here’s a [...]
I’m #2 in The Metaverse on the Twitter Elite List
Twitter Grader has some secret-sauce algorithm to create a list of Twitter Elite in each region. On a whim, I queried “The Metaverse” and I came in at #2. I don’t know quite what to make of this, but it makes for a fast blog post.
A Quick Survey of Gods on Twitter
I’m not sure what led me to check, but here are Twitter pages from some currently worshiped deities. According to Twitter, you can follow God, but you can’t follow Jesus because he doesn’t exist. Allah has protected his updates and Krishna is working with Wordpress. And Satan?
Newest Addition to Social Sharing Etiquette Comic
Here are the latest three images plus a link at the bottom to the full in-progress e-book from issuu.com.
Get your own – Open publication
Social Sharing: Who Cares?
I’m going to pull a Dave Gray with this comic and post small sets of images that will eventually be part of a larger and more coherent work. This continues from the introduction posted a couple of days ago here.
NEW COMIC SERIES: Botgirl Questi’s Guide To Social Sharing Etiquette (sneak preview)
Here’s a preview of the first few pages of a comic series starting next week that will sum up my weeks of digital navel gazing on social sharing. Should be pretty fun and hopefully of some practical value.
Next Week: Issue 1 “Diagnosing Post-Dramatic Share Disorder”
Sharing Flowchart
Here’s an image that captures a portion of the flow of my shared items. A share can begin at any box.
The What, Who and Where of Sharing
Still VizThinking through the process of sharing. This image is related to the decision process of figuring out where to post.
Snapshot of my Onion Peel
Thinking through social network sharing is like peeling a digital onion. Here’s a glimpse at one little piece of my puzzle. Hope to report back in greater detail within a few days. If not, send the bloodhounds.
My Sharing Universe
Just so you know I wasn’t exaggerating yesterday, here is a depiction of the sharing-related sites I’m registered with. I’m sure I forgot a few. I’ll continue the narrative in the next post.
(Revised 1/7 – Combined “Video Sharing” and “Photo Sharing”into “Media Sharing” and added Koinup)
