Social Media and Virtual Worlds Commentary
To steal a headline from The Independent, The UK election this May will not be decided by the power of Rupert Murdoch’s stranglehold over the British press, but by the opening up of society thanks to the free-thinking power of the internet. Is the influential power of the old media really over? In 1997, several [...]
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When I was a tender young age, my Primary School was one of the first in the area to get a machine called a “computer”. It was a BBC Micro, which had a screen, a keyboard which needed a mallet to operate, and a box next to it in which you’d insert “Floppy Discs”. We’d [...]
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The impact of social media has revolutionised the way the world connects, and thinks. It has bought the concept of democracy and free-thinking to parts of the world where it was not seen before. But it also changes the power game, and how warfare is played out in the modern world. In 2006, a web [...]
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An interesting comment on New World Notes got me thinking about an issue that the BBC didn’t have to deal with 20 years ago. The BBC is funded by a license fee which is mandatory for any UK household which owns a television – this fee is then used by the BBC to create content. [...]
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We need information. The human thirst for knowledge has never stopped growing as we feed our desire to learn and understand. The last few years has changed how we get our information. Printed media could only provide the news for the previous day until radio broadcasts updated us every morning and evening. The advent of [...]
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Diwali, for those of you who don’t know, is the Festival of Lights for those who adhere to Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism. It celebrates, in Hinduism, the return home of the god Rama after 14 years, who was welcomed with rows of alight lamps. The essence of the festival is the same across all [...]
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I saw Surrogates recently, which stars Bruce Willis as an FBI agent in a world where people minimise risk to themselves by living their life through an artificial being which is an idealised representation of who they want to be. Sound familiar at all? The whole idea seems rather far fetched, even if we are [...]
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A story like this really just writes its own title. Taser International Inc. have filed a suit against Linden Lab, XStreetSL and the former owners of XSL, VirtuaTrade. Taser are the biggest producers of stun guns, of course, and it seems they’re unhappy about those residents who are infringing their trademark in SL. It’s interesting [...]
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A few people have asked me recently why I’ve added new writers to Metaversally Speaking. Truth be told, it’s because I’m finding it harder to sustain regular writing. It takes a lot of work to post an article daily, and to maintain being amusing/informative/insightful (pick none). So for the past month or two, I’ve gone [...]
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