i found this link funnily enough off of that Second Life website that scared the hell out of me.
http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/C90/
Its basically a blog that talks about internet culture. A culture that seems to have stemmed from the creation of a computer and the internet. There is a new media culture. One which has taken over many people. This site describes many parts of this culture, and gives people the chance to comment on it. I am not a stranger to video games, computer games, online streaming to watch videos, etc. I know how to download what i want, watch what i want, play what i want, but this website seems to assume that by putting things onto the internet that they have taken a new form.
This reminds me of the video we watched in the first week off of Ian's blog, where it stated that text was linear when written, but not when typed, that Copywright laws would have to be changed. This is very interesting. As it seems to be true. On this blog you can look up all types of media communication and many other types of forms of knowledge that is freely availiable on the culture of the internet.
You can get taught online by teachers of all levels, get exam and essay help, get a health analysis if you don't know what is wrong with you, seek legal advice, etc.
Wednesday 24 October 2007
Second Blonde
To follow up on my last post, Technology is actually taking over the world.
The Matrix is real. It is! look: http://secondlife.com/
Why are we creating a world within a world?
"Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe. "
In this place you can create a vision of yourself, an avatar to represent you in this second world. You can be a respectable, say doctor by day, and by night on Second Life, you can become a dirty harlet! It's quite worrying to think that millions of people who inhabit Earth with us, have to leave their own real lives to enter second life and start a new one!
"Second Life is about personal expression and your avatar is the most personal expression of all. After all, an avatar is your persona in the virtual world. The picture below shows how easy it is to create your avatar. Despite offering almost infinite possibilities, the tool to personalize your avatar is very simple to use and allows you to change anything you like, from the tip of your nose to the tint of your skin. Don't worry if it's not perfect at first, you can change your look at any time. "
This website has become so large that recording artists actually play live on Second Life. A world within a world.A life within a life. In one sense its great, the person you feel you cant be in life you can be online, you can buy, create, build, meet people all on Second Life, but isnt that just slightly wrong? You are interacting with people yes, but through a machine, surely the machine has taken a larger role than just a way of communication, it has become your life.
The Matrix is real. It is! look: http://secondlife.com/
Why are we creating a world within a world?
"Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe. "
In this place you can create a vision of yourself, an avatar to represent you in this second world. You can be a respectable, say doctor by day, and by night on Second Life, you can become a dirty harlet! It's quite worrying to think that millions of people who inhabit Earth with us, have to leave their own real lives to enter second life and start a new one!
"Second Life is about personal expression and your avatar is the most personal expression of all. After all, an avatar is your persona in the virtual world. The picture below shows how easy it is to create your avatar. Despite offering almost infinite possibilities, the tool to personalize your avatar is very simple to use and allows you to change anything you like, from the tip of your nose to the tint of your skin. Don't worry if it's not perfect at first, you can change your look at any time. "
This website has become so large that recording artists actually play live on Second Life. A world within a world.A life within a life. In one sense its great, the person you feel you cant be in life you can be online, you can buy, create, build, meet people all on Second Life, but isnt that just slightly wrong? You are interacting with people yes, but through a machine, surely the machine has taken a larger role than just a way of communication, it has become your life.
Phone scare and technological worry!
It's worrying to think about how controlling media has become in our lives. On monday i was out and about with my friends in town enjoying myself, when suddenly i found myself on the floor of a club. Two dancers had landed ontop of me, i hit my head and the contents of my bag went flying across the room. In much pain and embarassement i was escorted from the dance floor by a large bald bouncer to see if i was ok. In my haste, i didnt realise that my mobile phone was missing.
Phones these days are important things, as important to us sometimes as our friends. They become in a way, our own little technological friend. A buddy who can help us to talk to our friends, go onto the internet to continue talking to our friends, keep up with correspondence to emails. My phone contained many pictures and videos from my trip to New York with my dad two years ago, which i normally would place onto my computer (my other tech friend, we will cover this later), and also pictures from mine and my boyfriend's trip over the weekend.
All my texts from last year, birthdays, little things you want to keep and remember, things people have said, were all stored upon my little sony phone. This is where you can see my real addiction to my phone:
I don't own a watch or an alarm clock. I rely completely and totally on my mobile phone.
So instead of looking at my phone for the last two days to see the time, i have had to turn on teletext! It's really worrying, i am addicted to my mobile phone. I was devestated when i lost it, in the space of about 15minutes, someone had decided to steal about 100 contacts, 200 messages of importance, 100 of my favorite photos, videos, dates that were set in my calender, reminders, even my set alarm clocks! ha! theyll enjoy waking up at 7am on a tuesday! All my easy, and not cheap portable life gone..........
This got me thinking and me and my friends started discussing how completely bad this is for us, i felt lost without my phone, as if a pet or a very important date setter had been lost. So then i retreated back to my laptop, my other amasing tech friend.
I LOVE my laptop, it is a brilliant machine with a fast connection, a beautiful game card, a wonderful array of small buttons,it contains loads of my favorite music, arranged perfectly on itunes, it contains very naughty ways of d/ling music and films, lots of d/led things for games i like to play, pictures upon pictures of my friends and me, which are often taken off my, now deceased, phone, its lovely! and then one fateful day in june, whilst i was doing English coursework in my kitchen, i spilt juice on it. NEVER SPILL JUICE ON YOUR LAPTOP!
It went crazy, it shut itself off and went a bit mad. It deleted word, and now the 'n' and 'b' and backwards and right buttons on my laptop dont work. Oh but thats not all....
The day after my little phone gets stolen, my laptop crashes, oh yes!
My pictures, my batterylife, my music, my downloads, everything seemingly gone!it also seems to continually write uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu if i leave it alone for a second. I was so upset! it doesnt even remember the sites i used to go on online, the best websites, where i sneakily watch hereos the day after it comes out in the U.S. It is awful, my computer, remembered everything for me, it doesnt even remember who i am when i try and go on facebook! its horrible! Then i started to think, my phone gone, my laptop gone, im gonna have to actually figure out how to get in contact with my friends without either for awhile.
How did we survive without these devices? its hard to think how, and THAT my friends is worrying, if i get upset because i cant use my phone or my computer for two days, what is the world coming to when we prefer to spend virtual time with our friends instead of real time? Not cool.
Phones these days are important things, as important to us sometimes as our friends. They become in a way, our own little technological friend. A buddy who can help us to talk to our friends, go onto the internet to continue talking to our friends, keep up with correspondence to emails. My phone contained many pictures and videos from my trip to New York with my dad two years ago, which i normally would place onto my computer (my other tech friend, we will cover this later), and also pictures from mine and my boyfriend's trip over the weekend.
All my texts from last year, birthdays, little things you want to keep and remember, things people have said, were all stored upon my little sony phone. This is where you can see my real addiction to my phone:
I don't own a watch or an alarm clock. I rely completely and totally on my mobile phone.
So instead of looking at my phone for the last two days to see the time, i have had to turn on teletext! It's really worrying, i am addicted to my mobile phone. I was devestated when i lost it, in the space of about 15minutes, someone had decided to steal about 100 contacts, 200 messages of importance, 100 of my favorite photos, videos, dates that were set in my calender, reminders, even my set alarm clocks! ha! theyll enjoy waking up at 7am on a tuesday! All my easy, and not cheap portable life gone..........
This got me thinking and me and my friends started discussing how completely bad this is for us, i felt lost without my phone, as if a pet or a very important date setter had been lost. So then i retreated back to my laptop, my other amasing tech friend.
I LOVE my laptop, it is a brilliant machine with a fast connection, a beautiful game card, a wonderful array of small buttons,it contains loads of my favorite music, arranged perfectly on itunes, it contains very naughty ways of d/ling music and films, lots of d/led things for games i like to play, pictures upon pictures of my friends and me, which are often taken off my, now deceased, phone, its lovely! and then one fateful day in june, whilst i was doing English coursework in my kitchen, i spilt juice on it. NEVER SPILL JUICE ON YOUR LAPTOP!
It went crazy, it shut itself off and went a bit mad. It deleted word, and now the 'n' and 'b' and backwards and right buttons on my laptop dont work. Oh but thats not all....
The day after my little phone gets stolen, my laptop crashes, oh yes!
My pictures, my batterylife, my music, my downloads, everything seemingly gone!it also seems to continually write uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu if i leave it alone for a second. I was so upset! it doesnt even remember the sites i used to go on online, the best websites, where i sneakily watch hereos the day after it comes out in the U.S. It is awful, my computer, remembered everything for me, it doesnt even remember who i am when i try and go on facebook! its horrible! Then i started to think, my phone gone, my laptop gone, im gonna have to actually figure out how to get in contact with my friends without either for awhile.
How did we survive without these devices? its hard to think how, and THAT my friends is worrying, if i get upset because i cant use my phone or my computer for two days, what is the world coming to when we prefer to spend virtual time with our friends instead of real time? Not cool.
Wednesday 3 October 2007
Blonde Life
Hello,
I am a blonde who lives in bath, who loves strawberries and hates chocolate. Who loves her friends, her boyfriend, dancing, films, her family,drama, english literature and alcohol.
That is all.
Elles, the Blonde
I am a blonde who lives in bath, who loves strawberries and hates chocolate. Who loves her friends, her boyfriend, dancing, films, her family,drama, english literature and alcohol.
That is all.
Elles, the Blonde
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