Tag: New Media

  • A second look at Second Life

    Unfortunately, as the interview was commencing, the event was attacked by a “griefer,” someone intent on disrupting the proceedings. The griefer managed to assault the CNET theater for 15 minutes with – well, there’s no way to say this delicately – animated flying penises.Second Life – let the backlash begin. Back in December, the Second…

  • Don’t email Joel Stein

    Not everything should be interactive … If Martin Luther put his 95 Theses on the wall and then all the townsfolk sent him their comments, and he had to write back to all of them and clarify what he meant, some of the theses would have gotten all watered down… The LA Times‘ Joel Stein…

  • Rich Skrenta‘s blog has a powerful, millennialist piece on Google running.

  • Social surgery…

    “With your help, we will provide a friendly, safe, easy to use place on the Web … This is a place where you take the lead in telling your own story. … In return, we ask that you meet this character challenge: be a good citizen and exhibit community leadership qualities. It’s a simple and…