Second Life Blogroll 2024!
Over the years there must have been many thousands of Second Life blogs! But how many are still active here in 2024? Let’s make a list!
Realism vs Romanticism in Second Life
Is anything we do in SL “real”? Is it all “performance”? Is that bad? Do we spend too much time in dreams? Where is meaning? What is valuable?
Holidays, Vandalism & Resolutions: a meditation
Some thoughts on the end of one year. And the beginning of the next. With a bit of reverie and a resolution or two.
Coming of Age in Second Life
In 2008 University of California, Irvine Anthropologist Tom Boellstorff published his book Coming of Age in Second Life. Later that same year I signed up and made an SL avatar. Now, 14 years later, I think I’m old enough to read his book!
Is Cheerleading a Sport?
The NCAA has ruled Cheerleading not a sport. The American Medical Association says that Cheerleading is a sport. Different courts have ruled both ways. What is a sport? And whatever a sport is, is Cheerleading that?
Rothko’s Chapel & Kate’s Photoblog
Mark Rothko’s Chapel. My Photoblog. Both strive to create a space to deeply experience something. What does that mean? Let’s think about how software platforms & hardware choices do or don’t afford deep experience.