Matthew’s Scribbles

This class was definitely an eye opening experience for the semester.  It is apparent that we had become ginny pigs essentially as a test for the communications department.  The overall experience was a good one contrary to how much people complained.  I did learn about everything i know of digitally mediated society.  Consequently, this is […]

After much anticipation of achieving new things on SL the excitement has slowed to a halt.  I not being that enthusiastic in the first place of the virtual world am not that surprised.  Exploring the landscape was fine for pure novelty a couple of months ago, however, now i would not use my spare time to […]

Now that we are all closed to finishing a class i take a step back and look at the events that filled the semester.  Since my previous writing i have since changed groups because Brent and I could not muster up a speeddating business with little resources.  Consequently, we were moved to the the swim […]

Today i discovered the boundaries and private space sector of SL.  In our swimup bar we are virtually on a thin line between the neighbors property.  When you cross this virtual imaginary line you get teleported out of that space.  I have switched SL groups because the speed dating premonition is not something that worked […]

Today Brent and I explored the universe for consumers of our project.  We are looking for people to come to our speed dating organization.  It is still hard for me to talk to people considering i am not that attractive to normal standards.  Many more avatars are speaking with Brent as he is wearing a […]

In Monday’s class we learned of the government set up by the creater of SL.  Linden controls the punishment in SL and he even has currency named after him.  This seems more like a monarchy than a democracy.  Can we revolt, and overthrow this dictator?  I feel that there should be a democratic set up for […]

We spoke in class of today’s society and how to relate reality from virtual.  There is a fine line nowadays between these two instances.  It was much easier to differentiate between the two pre-internet days.  Growing up i thought of virtual reality as the next step in Video Games from producers like Nintendo.  If I […]

We had an interesting class discussion last week of the importance of Second Life in our society today.  It startled me to realize that SL has it’s own exchange rate.  When you can exchange American currency with something in a virtual world, somebody is taking this very seriously.  This is something i have respect for, […]

Yet another thing to amaze me happened on SL the other day.  You can obtain certain smoking apparatuses to do drugs.  Your avatar after smoking falls over and appears drunk.  I do no know who created the reaction to smoking virtual pot but I have been told that smoking marijuana does not have any kind […]

Furthering my experiences in SL have really sparked my interest into this 21st century phenenomenon.  I really have not given this virtual world credit because of the manner in which i see these people taking so much time to complete their dreams on SL.  I feel they could just use the time to work on […]