For those who are unfamiliar with Second Life and MySpace, and for those that are, here are some wonderful user-generated videos that ridicule and elaborate on them: The crass but true Ill WillÂ’s Second Life Vacation And the sad but true Robbie DingoÂ’s Better Life David Lehre’s MySpace Movie Everything you see in these videos

I forgot to publish this notice about a talk I’m giving tomorrow (Friday 16th June) at the University of Sydney. It is the School of English, Art History, Film and Media Research Day: “TECHNOLOGIES AND THE HUMANITIES”. There will be talks delivered by Professors, lecturers and PhD candidates like me. It is a whole day

There is alot of talk about cybersex, virtual love, in-game weddings and so on. I’ll be talking a bit about this soon. But for now, I’ll share with you something that is a bit closer to home. My brother, David Knife, and his wife were interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article on people who have