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The Archives
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11.12.08Sounds Like Second Life: Mix & Match Blog Post by Princess IvoryNote: I'm thrilled to welcome Princess Ivory to Dusan Writer's Metaverse as part of a Mix & Match blog event organized by ArminasX and Vint Falken. Each of us submitted a topic and we were assigned back a topic and a blog on which the topic would appear. My entry is camping over on Tenth Life and is on something at which I'm quite the expert: um, fashion. Which means of course that the post is only peripherally about fashion. In any case, I'm thrilled to welcome and host this guest post. Princess Ivory's assigned topic was "Sounds Like Second Life" ...
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06.14.08Do Bloggers Make Us Stupider?From The Atlantic: Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case ...
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03.26.08Shut Down the Blogs and Head for the ExitsFurther addendum: Am I the only one infuriated that Catherine Linden threw in her two cents only ONCE in the comments that followed the posting of this issue? These people need to take communication classes - preferably from Sidewinder Linden. Ignoring all other comments and the hundred that followed, Catherine instead responded only to Ciaran (kudos! woot!): "Hey Ciaran, in answer to your specific question about timing, we are actually providing plenty of time — 90 days — to get your questions answered and let the community start using the inSL logo. We anticipate there will be lots ...
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