This week has been all about getting the lifestream up and running. I chose Tweetdeck to manage my tweets and all seems ok at the moment. I have chosen Flickr, YouTube, Tumbler, Twitter and delicious for my lifestream. I am also interested in setting up a lifestream in Second Life; this is something I may pursue in the digital essay part of the course assessment. I have managed get hold of a twitter Hud which allows me to post both messages and SLURLs from within Second Life and the hashtags work as well. On YouTube I have begun to create a series of short movies from within Second Life using Camtasia. These movies have a dystopian theme. I am trying to explore the different aspects of the definitions of cybercultures which the course readings try to unpick.  

I have always loved this video, GOOGLEZON, and find it prophetic in many ways. I was thinking about this whilst reading about James Murdoch’s annoyance that the BBC does not charge for its news service on the web, he complained that he finds the BBC ‘chilling’ in it approach to news and the power it has. James Murdoch is of course the son of Rupert Murdoch and is currently the CEO of News International.