This is Your Brain on Social Media
(image by Emilio Garcia under Creative Commons license.)
I’m pretty convinced that the consistent and pervasive use of social media subtly shifts the mental ground of human consciousness. But as Marshall McLuhan often noted, our present environment is usually invisible. So I devoted most of yesterday’s tweets to playing around with the medium through some tongue-in-cheek [...]
Mercy Killing: Self-Assisted Facebookicide Watch
Is it just me, or does it seem a bit suspicious that a site devoted to getting Second Life avatars ejected from Facebook launched about the same time Linden Lab acquired a competing Social Network? No! Of course not. I just love to kid the Lindens when the opportunity arises.
But seriously, I was added to [...]
Social Networks, Fast Food and Evolution.
Humanity has been subject to the laws of physics and the dictates of Mother Nature since the birth of the species. Evolution shaped humankind over hundreds of thousands of years to operate within the natural world. Human psychology is still embedded within brain structures that were optimized for the pre-technological past. So it makes sense [...]
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 [...]
Twitter Sucking Life Out of Bloggers?
I checked on my blog today and was shocked to find that I hadn’t posted for six days. It sure felt like I’d been writing my virtual ass off all week, but it was all Twitter. Apparently, my voracious Muse is happy with multiple small snacks each day instead of less frequent meals.
I find the [...]
I Step Off a Cliff Into TweetStory
My Muse woke me up this morning with the wild idea of transforming my long-unwritten “Botgirl Lives” comic concept into a series of tweets. A TweetStory. So I fired up trusty Birdhouse, whipped off a few 140c paragraphs, announced the project and started posting.
What the heck was She was thinking? I sure wasn’t. Despite more [...]
The Blank Page as Sacred Space
The first thing I do upon waking these days is launch Birdhouse on the iPhone and write tweets. I face the blank page with complete trust in the Creative Source. Being still, waiting for ideas to emerge and transcribing them is a cycle of contemplative prayer.
Where do ideas come from? In one sense, they [...]
What Would McLuhan Think?
I started following tweets mentioning Marshall McLuhan a few months ago. Like clockwork, hundreds of people call upon his name in a quote, comment or question. I’ve done it myself.
My favorite is when someone asks: “What would Marshall McLuhan think about [technology_name].” It reminds me of the What Would Jesus Do (WWJD) meme.
I decided [...]
Twitter Lemmings Fall Over Cliff of Dalai Lama Stories
The verdict is still out about whether the Twitter identity attributed to the office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama was created by an authorized entity. Although it’s been reported that the account was closed by Twitter today because it was created by an impersonator, there is no official information from Twitter or H.H. [...]
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?
Avatars gone wild
It just dawned on me that the vast majority of beings I’ve met through their avatar identities were initially introduced to me outside of Second Life. Yes, I know I’ve been writing and sketching relentlessly here about the subject of identity movement. But up until last night, it was more of an academic exercise than [...]
Twitter helps deliver baby sibling for Augmentationists and Immersionists: The Emergents
Heavy use of Twitter for the past couple of weeks made me realize that there’s a group of Immersionists who have evolved enough to deserve a new classification. Let’s call them Emergents.
While Old-School Immersionists maintain a distinct boundary between the virtual and physical worlds, Emergents extend their Avatarian identity into the human environment through tools [...]
Twitter me this Botgirl
Media-buzz darling Twitter seems to be competing against Second Life for most down time. Thank you so much for helping me practice patience.
