My five year old calls avatars “stamps”. He changes his stamp frequently (his account on the PC). Although he thinks grown-ups aren’t allowed to change their avatars. He has the freedom to be a car, or skateboard, or star for…
Prolific Profiling
Could this be a new learning and knowledge or communications job description in the not-so-distant future? Online Identity Development Manager Seeking a community shepherd to implement and manage online identity within globally evolving learning and knowledge networks: Implement the creation…
Privacy Thresholds
Is web2.0 breaking the barrier of our own privacy thresholds? Are we giving away more than ever in the act of “sharing”? Bill Thompson sums it up I’m as bad as anyone here, handing over my shopping patterns to supermarket…
Authentic Voices
Whether I am adding songs to my LastFM, or books to my Facebook, or clothes on my avatar, or words on my blog or twitter …. I certainly hope I am embedding and not so much embellishing my identity. I…
Bogus Reality
Are you really who you think you are? Does your online identity reflect the real you? Is your Avatar a reflection of the real you or have you become your Avatar? Does the number of “friends” in your various online…