We want...Information!!!!

This has to do with the election and the internet. I mention a view or two of mine. Big deal.

I don't know what people did during an election year before the internet. How did they find out about the candidates? It must have been excrutiatingly difficult if you missd the candidates TV appearance or if no one canvassed your street. This was the first year I ever really payed atention to politics. I guess I could have been considered complacent beforehand, but oh well..I'm not anymore.

So...at the begining of the year, I was really juiced up about Ron Paul. I learned about him through a friend and decided to check him out. I wen to his website a bunch, watched all his interviews on Youtube, looked at his stances, yad yada yada...I did all I could to find out about the guy. ****I also looked into the other GOP candidates, but RP kept my entusiasm through the course of the GOP debates and primary season. I bypassed the democrats, mostly because I figured they'd win anyway and I wanted to keep tabs on my guy. I became increasingly excited as time went on. I was glued to the TV for every second of the debates, on the internet all time and I even donated a small amount to his campaign.

All that aside, I got all my info about al the candidates (I just realised the word "candid" makes up most of "candidate"...interseting epytimology there haha) from the internet (youtube was a popular stop) and TV which leaves me wondering...what did people do before the internet? I know this is a silly question, but there's actually a grain of sincerity to it.

Second Life as used by businesses and education

I read the article on Scond Life being used by businesses and education. I know I always say this in regard to virtual world phenomena, but I'm not surprised that is has taken the path it has, or at least that many are using it that way. Second life is fun. I consider it to be like lucid dreaming. That where you're dreaming and realise you are, so you egin to manipulate the dream in a way. Can you see the paralell?

Whenever I'm on there ad I see someone cruising around, I like to fly up to them and ask what they're doing or just other smal talk. I've talked to people from al over the country doing this. I haven't had anything that amunts to formal dialogue yet, though. It's usually just "Hi, what the heck is going on here?" and then flying away soon after. I think I'd like to participate in a class setting on there if given the opportunity.