A Quick Survey of Gods on Twitter

I'm not sure what led me to check, but here are Twitter pages from some currently worshiped deities. According to Twitter, you can follow God, but you can't follow Jesus because he doesn't exist. Allah has protected his updates and Krishna is working with Wordpress. And Satan?

Why I'm Happy Nightflower Left Second Life

My good friend and comic collaborator Night(flower) decided to commit virtual seppuku last week and is gone, gone, gone. I am very proud of her for taking that step. Like many people I know, Night had kept her virtual life secret from her spouse (and Night had a BIG virtual life.) Having spent many hours discussing the topic with her over the past year, I take her decision to leave and "finally unite the two halves " of herself as a giant step of integrity. So I'm very happy for her.

Here's a page from the comic we co-created back in September that prophetically foreshadowed her current action.

Plurk adds Second Life as Country

Does this foreshadow an acquisition of Plurk by Second Life or just pandering to a large avatarian population. Or is there more as ArminasX writes? Time will tell.

Newest Addition to Social Sharing Etiquette Comic

Here are the latest three images plus a link at the bottom to the full in-progress e-book from issuu.com.

Get your own - Open publication

The Last Vid & Testament of Botgirl Questi

It's time to take a break from actively blogging and creating content as Botgirl Questi...at least for the foreseeable future. This video provides a glimpse into how I've been feeling trying to keep all of my atomic and virtual balls in the air. I will continue to post once in a while and also pop inworld from time to time.

Are We Ants or Are We Avatars?

Something about Twitter recently has made me feel like a minuscule and insignificant ant scurrying from data crumb to data crumb in the semi-aware hive-consciousness of social networking. Perhaps, like the ants who created the artifact discovered in this video, there is some greater whole that is being created. Maybe not. In any case, this glimpse under the surface is a very humbling look at the work of "mere" ants.

Social Sharing: Who Cares?

I'm going to pull a Dave Gray with this comic and post small sets of images that will eventually be part of a larger and more coherent work. This continues from the introduction posted a couple of days ago here.

NEW COMIC SERIES: Botgirl Questi's Guide To Social Sharing Etiquette (sneak preview)

Here's a preview of the first few pages of a comic series starting next week that will sum up my weeks of digital navel gazing on social sharing. Should be pretty fun and hopefully of some practical value.







Next Week: Issue 1 "Diagnosing Post-Dramatic Share Disorder"

Comic Cover: SLayers

Created on a Plurkish whim from Marvel's Create Your Own Superhero

Featuring from left to right:
Botgirl, (the diminutive) Jacek, Michele and Lanna

We interrupt this sharing thread for Ted Talks video of "Understanding Comics" author Scott McCloud

Sharing Flowchart

Here's an image that captures a portion of the flow of my shared items. A share can begin at any box.

The What, Who and Where of Sharing

Still VizThinking through the process of sharing. This image is related to the decision process of figuring out where to post.

The Sharer: Projection and Reflection

Snapshot of my Onion Peel

Thinking through social network sharing is like peeling a digital onion. Here's a glimpse at one little piece of my puzzle. Hope to report back in greater detail within a few days. If not, send the bloodhounds.

My Sharing Universe

Just so you know I wasn't exaggerating yesterday, here is a depiction of the sharing-related sites I'm registered with. I'm sure I forgot a few. I'll continue the narrative in the next post.



(Revised 1/7 - Combined "Video Sharing" and "Photo Sharing"into "Media Sharing" and added Koinup)

Discovery may be the new cocaine, but deciding where to share is a buzzkill.

High on THC* I cruised along at 100 feeds-a-minute racing against the ever-widening gap between the world's ability to generate information and my better-than-mere-human but depressingly finite capacity to gulp it down. The urgent rush of the chase was a continuous craving punctuated by fuck-you've-got-to-see-this moments tweeted just ahead of the black hole of an endlessly retreating road behind me. Followed and Followers were one.

That's how it used to be. Not any more. The previously simple seamless flow between find and share is now disrupted by the complexity of a social landscape fragmented in an explosion of blogs, microblogs, tumblogs, social networks, bookmark sharing, photo sharing,video sharing, business networking and whatever the hell will be the next best sharing paradigm. So when I have some bright idea or link I want to pass along I can't just be in the flow and click-and-go.

It's even more of an enigma for those of us with co-existing virtual and human identities. The question is not only who to post to, but also who to post from.

Next up. The visual side of my story.

* Techno Hunter-Gathering

Art and Ego

I feel best when my creative expression is a private dance between me and my emerging work. The intimacy of the process and the authenticity of the eventual work is diminished when my attention is drawn to an imagined audience. Twyla Tharp shares a few thoughts on the topic in this brief video clip.