Dave Sim : OPML 2.0 

I see that Dave 2.0 is virtual ;) Now I have to say I'd like to know 'who' he is in Second Life, but I don't blame him for not letting on. Though I hear the done thing is to deal with such a predicament is to have an 'alt'. Anonymity online never felt so good - so 'they' say. I'm planning on a huge tshirt market for shirts saying - "My alt f*cked your alt" - what do you think? ;)

BTW: the trouble is about 'Sims' characters is that none of us can interact with them. (Does an online version allow that?) Just as well be dolls at home that no one else 'sees' or 'meets' ;) People ask me about the monthly payments (that I now have to make) to Linden Labs for my 'Land' - I say "it's just data" - I pay for it as I would (or used to) for web 'space'. That data needs bandwidth and maintenance. Data aside, the fact that I can introduce people to people there and meet and communicate with strange degree of 'proximity' while continents apart as rather unique. It's hard to explain. It's the future - imho. Kids born today will see so many things I only dreamed of. I hope I see the future that I have dreamt of for years, for real.

In many ways - I already am :) That is C.O.O.L.

I have to say though, that 'OPML 2.0' looks a bit creepy to me - is it the suit? Is he a pimp? He looks it - reminds me of 'Fredo' in the Godfather.

[update] Wow - I never knew that guy, John Cazale (who played Fredo) had died. :( Though, I never thought to ask.

One day, we all will be. Sorry. Birthdays do this to me.

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Talking of names and domains 

S'funny - after reading all this about 'MySpace' and the name/brand thing. Especially as I was just 'discussing' with a good friend about how 'podcast' was a generic term, yet 'MySpace' was a brand owned by Rupert Murdoch. I think the generic term is powerful due to the fact that anyone else's name/brand etc in the SUBdomain does not get dilluted by the (our) generic domain - and as such, allows us to help create easy(ier) to remember urls for what you would surely expect to find there. Remember? We used to do alot of that before Google? It's amazing the amount of people who still do that type-in-and-go-for-it solution to web based discovery.

Gotta love that, eh?

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