Week 1

Okay this is the first blog post.

I'll be checking out second life here in a bit. Then I'll take a look at something which might be of interest for the research project.

For a relevant aside: I'm currently sitting in the library, typing the text for this on a laptop small enough to fit in my purse. I've also got my cell phone on vibrate and I'm texting back and forth with a friend of mine from high school who just friended me on facebook. In my lap is the book I'm outlining on the notebook to my side for my ENG 700 course. We talked about the multitasking future of our technology based society and the millenial generation. I never thought about it too much, but I guess I'm guilty too, despite the fact that I'm not a member of the millenial generation.

It makes me wonder if this is really a generational issue at all or if it is purely a technology culture issue which the younger generation happens to be catching on to faster than the rest of us. Why would they catch on sooner? Because they don't have preconcieved ideas about the way the world should be and therefore don't have barriers to their acceptance of the emerging culture. It will get the rest of us soon enough.