ENGL 680M: New Media

Here's another (pretty interesting) article about making money in Second Life, from Wired.

Sad sad story here, but an important one. Story of a thirteen year old girl who committed suicide after recieving a barrage of harrassment on Myspace-- sparked by a boy she friended who turned on her. But the boy was not who he seemed . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20071121/tc_usatoday/townmaycriminalize...

The dark side of identity play my friends . . .

Here's another good article from the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7079777.stm

Not only does it discuss the inevitable spread of viruses on Macs it raises the issue of the need for media literacy....

I've been cat-sitting for Morgan R. and I took advantage of her offer to play with her Wii. My spouse came along and we bowled and played tennis. I had tennis lessons a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago, but it was funny how I remembered how you are supposed to play the game; it's different in meat space, that's for sure. For one, in meat space tennis you aren't supposed to take more than one swing. I think changing the direction of your swing helps in Wii tennis; also I did manage to figure out how to serve an ace, but we figured it's someone unsportsmanlike in Wii.

Book Autopsies

I just had to share this thing that I saw on t.v. a couple of minutes ago while enjoying my nightly frozen pizza and Everybody Loves Raymond rerun. On Channel four, there was a preview for tonight's news at 10:00. This deep, imposing voice (think of the guy who does the horror movie voice overs) comes on and says "people making money...off of nothing at all: tonight at 10:00." It's hard to imitate in a blog, but the point is that he said it as though we have something to fear, kind of like the idea of teenagers having fun. Anyway, I hope someone else sees this advertisement tonight.

Here are the notes that Kristin and I made on SL/RL/FL/Education during class friday...

She was born in the Heavilon second floor computer lab at 4:32 today. A bouncing girl, sixty-five inches, no-one-needs-to-know how many pounds.

Here's 2 things of interest.

First is an article from the BBC about a Dutch teenager (and some other yahoos) who was arrested recently for taking the five-fingered discount on items belonging to other folks in cyberspace, specifically from Habbo Hotel. Pay for your movies and leave the towels, please.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7094764.stm

And here's a video you must watch (if you haven't already) that is a send-up of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab." This one is called Wiihab. Ha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxyFKJnjJA0

What is the difference between a journal and a weblog?