A chronology of essays
April, 2006 | Full entry
A chronological index of essays, listed by topic.
I have been interested in, and concerned about, the nature of identity in virtual arenas such as SL for some time now. My interest bubbled to the surface again last week when I responded to an entry in Bryan Alexander’s blog Infocult called Towards Third Life.
Yesterday British Telecom announced that they were investing £100 million in a new service to be called BT Vision. This has been misleadingly described in some reports as “BT’s new television service”. It would be more accurate to say that this represents BT’s calculated bet that, like radio, television is in terminal decline.
The idea of representing ideas or thoughts diagrammatically is not a recent one. However the current usages of the terms “mind mapping” and “concept mapping” are relatively recent.