Virtual worlds set to enter reality?

In an article titled ‘Virtual cities get real bustle’, New Scientist magazine of 3 October 2009 states that: “While virtual globes such as Google Earth or Microsoft Visual Earth provide great bird’s-eye views of urban landscapes, they show ghost towns – empty streets free of traffic or people. Now, a system that can draw on real-time [...]

Living in a mediated world

The way we consume and interact with media has changed rapidly over the past few decades, and consequently, the way it influences us has changed too. In the postmodern narcissistic ‘Me-World’, not only is the way we experience reality mediated, but so are our own thoughts and experiences.

When is too much enough? The status overload

Gino Cosme blogged about a topic close to my heart recently, titled “how many social networking profiles is enough“. In it, he says: There are so many social networking sites out there. MySpace; Bebo; Facebook; Xing; Twitter; LinkedIn; Second Life; Friendster; Digg – in fact, there are thousands of social networking sites on the internet. [...]

Digital evolution… yay or nay?

Gillian Reagan of The New York Observer wrote an interesting blogpost titled “Digital Doomsday” a few weeks ago.
In it, she describes a spoof of the Evolution of Man chart, where the final picture is a man hunched over a computer, looking “just as simple-minded as the furry fellow at the back of the line”. She [...]

OFF=ON – making the offline world more webby?

“OFF=ON | More and more, the offline world (a.k.a. the real world, meatspace or atom-arena) is adjusting to and mirroring the increasingly dominant online world, from tone of voice to product development to business processes to customer relationships. Get ready to truly cater to an ONLINE OXYGEN generation even if you’re in ancient sectors like [...]

Give books away for books you want with Bookmooch.com

As a renowned bibliophile (you can’t really walk through my house without knocking over the leaning towers of books!) I was intrigued to read about an interesting website in the Lifestyle section of the Sunday Times a few weeks ago. Called Bookmooch.com, the site’s payoff line gives the game away – ‘Give books away. Get [...]