i sometimes sign a blog post with “namas te” or “namaste”. i have always liked that phrase and it is very old from Sanskrit and it is used today as a greeting in Nepal and India (and probably other places as well). the word means “i bow to you”, or “i respect you”, or “i [...]

what are the big categories for virtual world users; as far as why people are in them? i can only view the world (virtual and real) through my own eyes and speak from my own experience. i feel lucky in having had a “land business” in Second Life. it was a great experience and even [...]

with so many grids popping up, it’s a bit of a drag rebuilding yourself for each one. i decided to follow Maria’s advice from Hypergrid Business and make myself on an OSGrid account. from the OSGrid i can teleport to many other grids. i can actually do that from our sims in Reaction Grid, but [...]

last week we broke 10,000 pics for our flickr account. we’ll never catch up to Torley though! obviously, i like flickr! but so far it’s mainly been just pics of builds and not all that useful to me except for use in the blog (and for my OCD about SEO) but finally, i have something that will [...]

i love being an avatar. many people love what their avatar means to them. for most people, there is a deep connection with that little you running around in-world (ener <– often runs in circles, hands in the air, screaming) =D research reveals what you and i already know (gee, imagine that!) Researchers at Concordia [...]

okay, i think being an avatar is pretty cool. it lets my inner child come out and shout (or blog). it also lets me be a bit more “unfiltered” in my opinionated ramblings than i am in real life for online stuff, my avatar is way more known than my real self and that is fine [...]

i was chirping about in twitter and saw a Hamlet Au post about a Botgirl post that talked about how rather than having two boxes to lump you in as an avatar, we should have four. it used to be that you were either an immersionist or an augmentalist. now Hamlet and Botgirl are very [...]

a very good vw friend asked about whether she should use her real identity or her avatar for online SEO stuff. search engine optimization has changed in the last 5 years with the growth of facebook and now twitter. blogging has also seen BIG growth because it has become easy to do and can be [...]

Dream Walker posted an answer about WoW and sl connecting to it. she brought up gravatar which is a mandatory account if you want to “brand” yourself online. branding does not always mean a bad thing, it just helps others recognize you. so on blogs when you respond, people can immediately see your little avatar what about [...]

second life, opensim, or any world that is more open ended than game-like – what do they mean or do for you? a comment on last night’s post made me think about what second life, and now reaction grid, means for me i did not know that a good and trusted friend came to sl via http://virtualability.org and [...]

in some games, you can never look at yourself and in some “virtual worlds” you can’t even see if you have a body. there is one big virtual conference company where you mouse around and see only silhouettes of other people, but they are just fakes, you don’t see anyone moving but can move through an exhibit [...]

last month or so, yours truly was kicked to the curb by facebook. and so were many other avatars. so good posts came out talking about what is an avatar is the value of an avatar its real life person? how does knowing the name, age, gender, religious persuasion, sexual orientation, hair colour, height, weight, [...]

mangaMakeover, originally uploaded by iliveisl the old avatar used for blogging was pretty depressing, all gray and melancholy. so after some time in the bookstore and messing in photoshop, here is a pseudo-manga avatar. part of that branding practice. manic panic pink or what! well when it’s actually on blogging sites it is really tiny [...]