Pseudonymity, Separatism and Multidimensional Thinking
There have been a couple of very interesting conversations going on over the last few days related to two blog posts on the topic of human and avatar identity: "Pseudonynimity AKA Privacy" by Soror Nishi decried what she sees as a growing consensus in the avatar community that revealing one's human identity is a good thing.  Soror finds the "avatar AKA human identity" trend boring and wrong-headed. "There is No Wall" by Lalo Telling put forward the idea that the "Augmentationist/Immersionist" conve

New Comic Teaser for "Botgirl Vs. Human: The Real Life Video"

Are Multiple Identities Contrary to a Life of Integrity
Yesterday I wrote on the new Transworlder's Community site: I'm ready to be done with peering through the duality of SL vs. RL and the psychological, social and technical barriers that keep them apart. We live ONE LIFE through multiple identities, upon multiple worlds. After sleeping on it, I realized that the post left the door open to a number o

Transworlders of the Worlds Unite!
I sketched this image last year to visualize a trend I was seeing in the movement of identities between worlds. Today, avatar identities created initially in Second Life are even more widely travelled and have large, established communities on human-centric social networking and sharing sites like Ning, Facebook, Flickr and Plurk, and Virtual Worlds such as Twinity, Metaplace and ReactionGrid, to name a few. Although we are a diverse

Not Mixed Reality...One Reality: New Comic
Well, at least our perception of reality. Stories are the substance of our conception of the worlds, our lives and ourselves. I'm loving the story of avatars interacting in normal, human settings. Here's my latest little comic sketch, in collaboration with you know who.