While you were wondering if they moved Saddam’s execution up in order to prove that old trope that celebrity deaths only come in threes, here’s what we were looking at for the past couple of weeks:
- Second Life, Activism, and the Digital Arena – Just because it’s virtual doesn’t mean that it isn’t real. Or real enough, as the case may be.
- Top 10 Albums Of 2006 (plus!) – A listing of my favorite albums, CDs, records, directories — whatever you wanna call it — of the past year. Highly subjective. Of course.
- Second Life, Snowballing and Solstice – It’s winter in Second Life, with snowball fights and everything.
- James Brown Finds Bridge, Crosses It – Not only did James Brown practically invent modern music, he may also have invented the way that modern musicians market themselves.
- Whatever Happened To…Rocketboom? – In the first of a series of stories that give the latest on topics that we covered during our first year online, Kassia looks at Rocketboom, post Amanda Congdon.
- Whatever Happened To Lonelygirl15? – What I really wonder is how the copy of Wired with Jessica Rose on the cover “mysteriously” made it to Kirk’s coffee table. Did Santa leave it? Was it transported from the Enterprise? Was it forgotten by the Borrowers? Was it magically dropped on the table by faries? Perhaps it was bunnies!
- Whatever Happened To The Zune? – For some reason, after months and months of coverage of the Zune, this set some people off, causing accusations of unfairness and irrationality. Pointing out the fact that Microsoft chose to make Zune incompatible with Microsoft’s previous DRM (and we cheer Bill Gates for seeing the light on DRM) is anti-Zune? Obviously these people haven’t squirted nearly as much as they had hoped to.
- Whatever Happened To Spiral Frog? – It’s in double-secret Beta!!
- Whatever Happened To The Prism DuroSport? – As it turns out, putting out the Worst Digital Media Player ever was just the beginning of their woes.
- Whatever Happened To The Origami? – The cheap joke is that it seems to have folded in on itself. However, since it’s actually not so much a product as it is a spec for a product third parties can manufacture, it really got overshadowed by Zune and Vista.
