Imagine this: Sometime in future, everyone on the planet decides to live in a virtual world [think Second Life]. However, they don’t access that world via a computer screen and keyboard.
August 28th, 2010 at 10:20am
My Wikipedia spam lasted 20 days. My strategy: I posted on the List of Awareness Ribbons page on Wikipedia on the 18 September 2007. I suggested that wearing the green and blue ribbon was a symbol of support to people with ‘centophobic tendencies’. I referenced this fact with a link to http://www.centophobia.com/fromprank/. This sneaky addition [...]
December 19th, 2007 at 11:18pm
A quote I just had to share: It is sheer magic that I should be able to hold a one-sided conversation by means of black (and pink) marks on paper a webpage with an unknown person halfway across the world. Talking, broadcasting, writing, and printing are all quite literally forms of thought transference, and it [...]
October 11th, 2007 at 11:56am
I haven’t blogged for over four weeks! I just don’t feel like I have anything to say at the moment. It is interesting how for the first six-months of this year I was really interested and willing to give some of my time to write on this blog, and then I just stopped. It is [...]
July 18th, 2007 at 09:33pm
So I have been joining a heap of social networking sites lately (I don’t know why I bother, no one ever visits me). One of these sites was Last.fm. It has probably been around for ages but I just discovered it. It listens (scrobbles) the music you play on your computer and then matches you [...]
June 1st, 2007 at 05:19pm
I have heard about this ground breaking internet community and have studied virtual communities at university, however the story on Four Corners last night did reveal issues that I had never thought about, including: How would a virtual Stock Exchange work within Second Life? However later I also thought that the real world stock exchange [...]
March 20th, 2007 at 11:00am
Did you know that companies are ‘monitoring’ blogs and messageboards to determine people’s opinions about brands and advertising campaigns? Computers are used to “peruse” millions of blogs and messageboards and measure the amount of “chatter” or “buzz” present in the “blogosphere“. Natural Language Processing is used to analyse the language used in posts, to estimate [...]
April 4th, 2006 at 10:48am