SL as an education tool
Charlie Nesson spoke to the alumni association today about Second Life and some of the problems we must address if we are to use it as an educational platform. He […]
Category Archives: being digital
About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
Digital Brats
I feel that communications technologies- as they become more advanced- are not making human beings more sophisticated, but rather nurturing immaturity and insolence. I am only speaking from a communications […]
Encrypting Email
Why don’t people encrypt their email? That was the question we were asked for this week after reading Chapter 5 of Blown to Bits. The chapter is about encryption and […]
Jumping on the Opensource Bandwagon
Why spend money to develop applications when you can get others to do it– for free? Seeing the positive effects of engaging third party developers, hardware makers and Internet service […]
Gaming for a cause
A lot of games these days involve playing for a cause- LIl’ Green Patch, for example, is a simulation game where you plant and tend your garden, but the time […]
Winners and Losers
#1. Viacom: Wins today as court rules in favor of its request to view all of Google’s viewer information regarding YouTube. Says they want to see if copyrighted material was […]
Outline for Online Scholar Database
Wanting to find a database of academics, I did some extensive searching and found some database of study-specific scholars, but not a general one. I did, however, find a lot […]
Vista discriminates poor
This is yet another post ranting on the negative aspects of having Vista as an operating system. So! I went to the CEX store in Boston today, with high hopes […]
D. Yvette Wohn 