Posts in the "Social Media" Category

  • Locking Down the BBC – Should British Content Be Available Internationally?

    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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  • Mobile Metaverse

    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 24 [...]

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  • Season’s Greetings!

    Have a great Holiday Season, everyone!

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  • Happy Diwali

    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 the [...]

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  • Immersive Avatars

    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 living an [...]

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  • Taser Stuns Linden Lab

    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 to note [...]

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  • A New Chapter Begins..

    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 periods of [...]

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  • Friend

    Is it odd to have close friends in Second Life? People who you’ve never met in the first life, but who mean the world to you? People who you’d help in any way you could?
    I’ve seen the notion that “internet friends aren’t real” bandied around before, yet it feel incredibly real. I’ve come to the [...]

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  • Dude.. where my attention sp.. ooh, a cookie!

    I’m pretty certain Google has destroyed my attention span.
    Google is my browser’s homepage, and when I click for Firefox to load, I expect Google to pop up instantly. This set a dangerous precedent when I then do a search, and again expect the results to be accurate to what I’m looking for, and to appear [...]

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  • Get a Real Life

    Okay – I’m pretty sick and tired of seeing the same comments and posts up in various places, all saying the same thing:
    “Go outside, meet a real person, read a book, have a walk, live a REAL life!”
    I mean, jeeez. Get over yourselves. This “real world” myth that people who use the internet are all [...]

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