1. I'm going to republish my UKA thread question here because it yielded such interesting results. Here it is.
I'm not sure whether my "online personality" is so much different from my non-online one, only my good friends might be able to answer, but what I do know is the opportunities for mischief and being outspoken are far greater than in the outside world (and I'm like a kid in a sweetshop)
How is your "online personality" different from your other one? Do you think that they merge over time? Do you think that your actual personality has changed as a result of your online version?
Quite simply lying about who you are and what you do has never been easier. Perhaps it's always been easy if you are brash and bold enough (credit card fraudsters do it everyday).
Truth and lies are increasing fluid in the modern age. The development of the Interweb in particular has fuelled urban legends and spoofing to new levels. There was in fact a conference in Aberystwyth yesterday on urban legends. Is the lack of user’s identity and therefore authority what gives the Interweb such a chaotic reputation?
I'm not making a moral judgement about truth, telling lies or who you are when you are online, I'd just like your thoughts not just on the blurring of reality online but how this is creeping into our lives generally. Mail me and tell me your thoughts by clicking the big mail me link at the top of the page.
2. I admit it. The above thread is part of some research I'm doing for a story called The Stereotypist. It's about a man who makes generalisations about everyone he meets on and offline. I suspect there will be a sticky end for him. The difficulty I have is that in expressing the opinions of the man with regard to the people he meets, might be interpreted as mine. They're honestly not although they could be seen as such. The man in real life makes disastrous assumptions about the people he meets. Online he makes equally disastrous assumptions about people based on their usernames and the info he can glean from profiles. This is the bit people could be offended by.
Oooh controversial.
3. Bovril salad dressing. I am emailing them right now.
4. Overheard word of the day - Affordance. A visual clue to the function of an object. Affordancy is a jazz topic. It's a subject found in psychology and education amongst other things. It can apply to learning, design, ergonomics, the list goes on. As I say pure jazz.
5. Hey this is fantastic although I’m not sure for what reasons
Wind Farm Madness
6. Picking up the pieces on Channel 4 last night was good stuff. Robert Brown served 25 years in prisoner for the murder of Annie Walsh. The court of appeal freed him because it emerged that a bent copper Jack Butler, beat the confession out of him. Brown’s mother was dying of cancer on his release and died 18months later. He was enormously attached to her. Robert was right when he said that no-one could ever empathise or understand what he’d been through unless you’d been through the same thing (presumably why he hooked up with Paddy Hill). Twenty five years ago was a different world but these things can still happen (I believe there could many MOJO’s, miscarriages of justice, due to an overconfidence in forensic evidence for instance). What surprised me about the program was how strong a personality Robert had and why having such charisma he managed to stay inside so long?
7. Let’s take the money out of the game. Year 1 for the Premiership. There should be a maximum amount of money that a player can earn whilst he’s playing. All players should be valued equally. All players to see out their contracts and clubs to honour their end and put on dreadful testimonials. Give the players enough cash for a mock tudor mansion, a rubbish sports car, a curly perm as well as free tickets to their local Ritzy’s Neetclub. Second thoughts I’d take £9million for Beattie.
8. I’m seriously thinking of blowing out the Saints game against Swindon and going to the UKA live event now. That thread has made everything a whole lot more interesting somehow.
9. Thanks to Justin for making me piss myself laughing this morning with This Turn it up.
10. These copy protected CD’s are a pain in the arse. If you are at work and you don’t have admin access then you can’t install the software they have on them. I was looking forward to listening to the new Zero7 album today and now I’m just gonna have to settle for WUMB country suicides on the radio. Sort it out music industry.
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