Mixed Reality Art Show and Dueling Tag Clouds

I've recently accepted an invitation to participate in a mixed reality art exhibition. I'll be leading one of five teams creating 1/2 sim installations in Second Life that will be captured via machinima and still imagery for presentation in a number of RL galleries. My topic is "The Ambiguity of Identity." I'll provide more details here soon.

Here's the latest snippit from some of the research I've been doing on the expression of my own identities across social networks. These images were created in Wordle and reflect Delicious tags. The first is Botgirl's ; the second is Human's. It seems Human is a bit more well-rounded!

Plurk Goes Crazy for Fake Lindens Today Thanks to ArminasX Saiman

ArminasX Saiman started a micro-fad on Plurk today by changing his display name to Armi Linden. Chaos erupted as Second Life Plurkers began channeling fake Lindens and posting all kinds of ROLF messages.

A few were displeased and one notable person whose name I won't mention here dropped all of the participants from his timeline.

Here's a shot from my December post on creating a Botgirl Linden identity on OpenLife.

I'm #2 in The Metaverse on the Twitter Elite List

Twitter Grader has some secret-sauce algorithm to create a list of Twitter Elite in each region. On a whim, I queried "The Metaverse" and I came in at #2. I don't know quite what to make of this, but it makes for a fast blog post.

A Quick Survey of Gods on Twitter

I'm not sure what led me to check, but here are Twitter pages from some currently worshiped deities. According to Twitter, you can follow God, but you can't follow Jesus because he doesn't exist. Allah has protected his updates and Krishna is working with Wordpress. And Satan?

Newest Addition to Social Sharing Etiquette Comic

Here are the latest three images plus a link at the bottom to the full in-progress e-book from issuu.com.

Get your own - Open publication

Are We Ants or Are We Avatars?

Something about Twitter recently has made me feel like a minuscule and insignificant ant scurrying from data crumb to data crumb in the semi-aware hive-consciousness of social networking. Perhaps, like the ants who created the artifact discovered in this video, there is some greater whole that is being created. Maybe not. In any case, this glimpse under the surface is a very humbling look at the work of "mere" ants.

Social Sharing: Who Cares?

I'm going to pull a Dave Gray with this comic and post small sets of images that will eventually be part of a larger and more coherent work. This continues from the introduction posted a couple of days ago here.

NEW COMIC SERIES: Botgirl Questi's Guide To Social Sharing Etiquette (sneak preview)

Here's a preview of the first few pages of a comic series starting next week that will sum up my weeks of digital navel gazing on social sharing. Should be pretty fun and hopefully of some practical value.







Next Week: Issue 1 "Diagnosing Post-Dramatic Share Disorder"

Sharing Flowchart

Here's an image that captures a portion of the flow of my shared items. A share can begin at any box.

The What, Who and Where of Sharing

Still VizThinking through the process of sharing. This image is related to the decision process of figuring out where to post.

The Sharer: Projection and Reflection

Snapshot of my Onion Peel

Thinking through social network sharing is like peeling a digital onion. Here's a glimpse at one little piece of my puzzle. Hope to report back in greater detail within a few days. If not, send the bloodhounds.

My Sharing Universe

Just so you know I wasn't exaggerating yesterday, here is a depiction of the sharing-related sites I'm registered with. I'm sure I forgot a few. I'll continue the narrative in the next post.



(Revised 1/7 - Combined "Video Sharing" and "Photo Sharing"into "Media Sharing" and added Koinup)

Discovery may be the new cocaine, but deciding where to share is a buzzkill.

High on THC* I cruised along at 100 feeds-a-minute racing against the ever-widening gap between the world's ability to generate information and my better-than-mere-human but depressingly finite capacity to gulp it down. The urgent rush of the chase was a continuous craving punctuated by fuck-you've-got-to-see-this moments tweeted just ahead of the black hole of an endlessly retreating road behind me. Followed and Followers were one.

That's how it used to be. Not any more. The previously simple seamless flow between find and share is now disrupted by the complexity of a social landscape fragmented in an explosion of blogs, microblogs, tumblogs, social networks, bookmark sharing, photo sharing,video sharing, business networking and whatever the hell will be the next best sharing paradigm. So when I have some bright idea or link I want to pass along I can't just be in the flow and click-and-go.

It's even more of an enigma for those of us with co-existing virtual and human identities. The question is not only who to post to, but also who to post from.

Next up. The visual side of my story.

* Techno Hunter-Gathering