Introduction

So this blog will begin as a continuation of the discussion about Second Life on the SJSU SLIS students listserve and a post on the SLIS21 blog. This is to create a dedicated forum for this discussion and to take it out from under the noses of people who could care less. My opinions are well-documented and there will be an obvious bias in these posts, however, comments are encouraged and, aside from obvious spam, will be left intact and unedited by me. So please feel free to tell me I am wrong in as many ways possible.

If this blog is succesful, if there is interest, and if I feel like it, it will expand to include thoughts and news about any and all emerging communication technologies and their viability.

For now, we will move on to some posts about Second Life.

And, just to clarify, I don't think that the San Jose State Library and Information Science School shouldn't be involved in Second Life. It's perfectly fine. I just don't think it should be used a major selling point for the school, and Second Life definitely shouldn't be promoted as some sort of spectacular future for online communication. Because it isn't.

So this blog is not here to encourage SJSU SLIS to abandon Second Life. (It and every other institution that has hitched itself to the Second Life wagon will be abandoned by the demise of Second Life in due time.) I just like to be right, and I'm 99% sure that I am right about Second Life. After the initial few posts, there will be relatively few direct references to SJSU at all. This blog should be for everyone and anyone interested.