Thing #2 of “23 Things”

Create a Blog, Add a Post and an Avatar

This thing was not hard to do. I decided to use my real name because I don’t think I will ever write anything here that I would like to keep secret. I think this avatar thing is a good idea but it is used very primitively here. In other words, there are not enough choices. If you have ever played “The Sims” or other games you know that there are limitless ways of customizing the looks and the cloth of an avatar. I think my avatar looks exactly like me. Too bad that the goatee they have looks horrible on my avatar!
Before the internet becomes completely wirelessly, with people having access directly from their brain with a small implant, I believe we will have a 3D internet environment through which we are going to surf as an avatar moving from one place to another and interacting with other avatars which could be people or AI avatars. I think this will be the 3.0 version of the internet. Right now several people go at once to the same webpage, but we rarely find out that there is someone else looking at the same page, and we almost never talk to each other during this process. In Internet 3.0 this will happen automatically just like in “Ultima Online”, “War Craft” or other gaming environments.
The website that can be created with blogger.com is a classic blogger site. I would like to see more “gadgets” to add, and more importantly, a “Folder” Gadget which would allow you to “store” files such as pictures, music and power point presentation. Microsoft’s Windows Live lets you add folders to your “bloger-website” through MS Windows Sky Drive which is a service that gives you 25 GB of free space to store anything you want (and you can have more than one).
You can see my Windows Live website at: http://ridelto.spaces.live.com/
I use this one to share Power Point presentations and other files with my students, but I have another one for family pictures.
Overall, the experience was fun and the tools were very user friendly. I am looking forward to do more “Things” and to add more “Blogs”. It was a bit time consuming, but I think it was only because it was the beginning (not the end!).

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