Other Realities

BlogHer Business

A couple of weeks ago I spent a lot of time at a REAL conference in Second Life.   Today I'm popping in and out of the live blogging coverage of BlogHer Business, another REAL event but I don't feel as much of a part of this one as my avatar isn't sitting in the audience.   

But it is good.   Check it out.   Business savvy women ,  women savvy businesses.   What a great pairing!  I'm learning from the live blogging posts that are being posted asap after the session.   Sounds like there will be video too.

Here's the link to main page that will have links to the individual sessions that  are being live blogged.  The first link to the opening session is already live.

I love the new wave of integration that conferences are taking on.  The near instantaneous feedback makes these conferences more a part of a process and less a distinct "event."   The conference as node in information flow is much more engaging and engaged than a simple ol' point in a linear system.   

Attempting to build new blog linkages to my integrated business site (this blog) is not easy, but I feel I have to keep the integrity of my old blog while developing this business.   Perhaps someday I will bring them together, but they serve very different functions.  Honesty is so important.   I don't want to mislead people.   Without honesty there is nothing to motivate a reader to come back .   

The funny thing is that this blog isn't yet listed in BlogHer because of the relative newness of it.   And BlogHer has high standards.    I will link to this blog and this series of posts from my Build Peace blog that is  a part of that network.   

Virtual Conference - Life 2.0

I'll occasionally be re-posting, with permission, bits of Ana Herzog's reports and her images from the in-world Second Life venue for the Life 2.0 conference over the next few days.   The conference sessions actually started Saturday so I won't waste too much time with repetition -- you can read about the sessions she attends at her "My Life as an Avatar" blog at http://secondana.blogspot.com.   

Many Blogs in One

I have too many identities.   I didn't intend to create different identities but at one point in my naive past I thought that the different subjects that intrigued me deserved distinct treatment via distinct blogs.  Most human beings worth their salt are so diverse that to maintain a compartment for each aspect of self would take up all of an individual's time.   I blog about peace, politics, and attitude.    I blog about  meaning, identity, reality and semiotics.   I blog about munchausen by proxy abuse & medical abuse, I blog about virtual worlds and the metaverse such as Second Life® and Open Life® grids.  I blog about human culture.  I blog about living happily with depression.  I blog about green and blue - ness, about environmental processes such as wetlands and arid lands.  I blog about blogging.  I blog about the original Generation X that is the latter portion of what is termed The Baby Boom Generation.  I blog about feminism and other "isms." I blog about Gene Stratton-Porter.   I blog about Indiana.   I blog about Arizona.   I blog about CODEPINK.   I blog about roles assigned to me by culture such as mother, daughter, sister, wife, woman and roles I have actively assumed such as iconoclast and activist.     And I blog about many other things.   

My favorite quote in the whole world is Walt Whitman's, "Do I contradict myself?  Very well then, I contradict myself.  I am large.  I contain multitudes."