So, here I am… finally getting “with it” and joining the unwashed blogging masses. This is by no means my first attempt to start a blog, and while I’ve never been one to keep a diary or even a to-do list as the case may be, I’m going to make a concerted effort this time. This time.
I suppose the question must be asked, given the proliferation of the “blog” and associated “blogging” activities: What can I possibly bring to the “blog-sphere” (or perhaps, “blog-o-verse?”) that so many virus infected MySpace pages utterly fail to provide? I would love to answer that question… I really would. To be honest, I don’t know if I can, though. The way I see things – and trust me here, you really want to avoid seeing things my way if you know what’s good for you – blogs have become even more of a niche market enterprise than magazines. Sure, I can go to the bookstore and pick up the latest copy of “Purple Monkey Dishwasher Monthly,” but on the internet… well now, based on the approximately zero minutes of research I’ve put into it, I’m quite sure I could find at least a dozen blogs discussing the nuances of pygmy marmosets versus chimpanzees in their respective dish-washing capabilities.
Aside from semi-simian-centric discussions, I hope to provide a bit of insight into the goings on of my so-called Second Life. This will naturally involve a bit of advertising, though I do not wish this to become overly-commercial in nature. I’ll probably spend an inordinate amount of time explaining, in excessively obtuse prose (likely plagued with parenthetical comments such as this), just what it is I think about a bunch of random nonsense. It may be topical, and it is just as likely not to be. I’ll attempt to refrain from commenting on Linden Labs and the Second Life software itself. Instead, I hope to focus on the “experience” of it all, that elusive and intangible element of virtual world interactions that seems to have so many people addicted and proclaiming that anyone who isn’t “just doesn’t get it.”
Thus begins what I shall hear after refer to as “the great blog mistake.” Well, I probably won’t refer to it that way. I’ll likely forget that I even wrote that in about ten minutes or so.
Thanks for reading this far. I hope you haven’t punched your monitor yet.
-Naeko
