tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070972110446697029.post3059940277930725819..comments2021-09-10T23:38:21.337-07:00Comments on Virtual Jungle: Micro-Ode to Proko-FlyDanton Sidewayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08592611193635208286noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070972110446697029.post-35637612200360742392008-07-01T04:54:00.000-07:002008-07-01T04:54:00.000-07:00I've come to see you, Prokofy, as a sort of folk h...I've come to see you, Prokofy, as a sort of folk hero. It's as if I were to sing about Paul Bunyan the lumberjack or Casey Jones the fearless train driver. While I only partially agree with your ideas, I find truly heroic your one-man crusade, first against Linden Lab and the FIC, and now against Silicon Valley as a whole.<BR/><BR/>But the folk hero generally represents a social class, and you represent the army of virtual builders, traders and bloggers in and around Second Life. My original exchange of tweets with David Orban was about how Internet consumes an ever-increasing portion of our time. In your case it is truly a mystery how you can have a first job, then manage your in-world properties, read and comment on all the blogs, and still log into one social software feed after another. David Orban tweeted back something ridiculous about the future being a careless stroll through a grassy field, which prompted me to ask if he thought we would be multi-tasking "in the background" thanks to brain implants.<BR/><BR/>Remember that in trying to keep up with an industrial machine, John Henry died of exhaustion. "He died with his hammer in his hand, oh lawd, died with his hammer in his hand."Danton Sidewayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08592611193635208286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070972110446697029.post-64204996710722813022008-06-30T22:39:00.000-07:002008-06-30T22:39:00.000-07:00My, you are practically a one-man fan club for Pro...My, you are practically a one-man fan club for Prokofy these days, Danton, it's weird.<BR/><BR/>As for spimes, you can hardly have a conversation with a techno-neo-Bolshevik who wants to aggressively put eavesdropping devices all over your city and scrape data. That isn't someone you have a conversation with; that is someone you go to war against.<BR/><BR/>Yes, Scoble blocked me, let me think...I think it was over my criticism of his thinly-veiled Silly Valley lobbying drop to Washington DC.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17462957723334149373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070972110446697029.post-7609401994405434882008-06-29T13:33:00.000-07:002008-06-29T13:33:00.000-07:00Just what makes up a compliment on the Internet, a...Just what makes up a compliment on the Internet, anyhow? Internet seems to be all about rating and ranking, in which case notoriety counts more than anything else. <BR/><BR/>Prokofy ranks high on the notoriety scale, whereas being "mild-mannered" does little for notoriety. Being a "nice guy" likewise adds nothing to one's notoriety.<BR/><BR/>But it depends what you are after in the long run. Sometimes a mild exterior can hide vast ambitions. Maybe OpenSpime is your secret plan to rule the world!Danton Sidewayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08592611193635208286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070972110446697029.post-18557656873301276112008-06-29T03:45:00.000-07:002008-06-29T03:45:00.000-07:00I actually tried to engage Prokofy in what I thoug...I actually tried to engage Prokofy in what I thought could be a conversation, but was rebuffed. :)<BR/><BR/>Vanity feeds are not so much about being vain, as about keeping alert of things that might relate to you, in other people's opinion. (Like this post which popped up in my reader feed via an ego-search...)<BR/><BR/>Is 'mild mannered' a compliment? ;)David Orbanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13685555379664535996noreply@blogger.com