Is it a common truth that the more connected you are the less physically connected you are. In the modern age of mobiles, sms, blogs, myspace, facebook, google earth the more online you are the less offline. Do you upgrade from letter to phone to fax to email to blog to second life just as you have from pen and paper to ADSL2. And once you have this do you feel morally obligied to use said connection?
When looking at blogs think are they the natural evolution of a pink dear diary with a little lock which can only be read by sneaking into your sisters room and knowing which draw to rumage - is the attraction of a blog to read no more than a digital voyers daily activity as some form of in road to a personal commentary be it sexual/social/economical/comical. Or is it a need of armchair crusader for an outlet for the friends of the ABC now that Backchat is no longer on the air.
Everyone wants to be online from 4 year olds with a mobile (which we will come back at another time) to your grandmother. Everyones getting on and blogging, myspacing, second life, im'ing and just like a beachgoer on bondi at boxing day they are just looking for their own piece of realestate to call their own. Its not for exploration or achievement, there are no digital Christopher Columbus' or Neil Armstrongs here, its just Bugs Bunny popped up at Pismo Beach putting down his deckchair and running for the water.
Consider, is second life the first? If so, see that thing in the corner of the room? Thats called a door. To operate you turn the handle and push. Go through and explore. Never know, it might catch on.
Andy. (Ill think of a cool sign off later)
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