by Cecil Hirvi, Guest Writer

Location: Virtual Park Bench (Cecil Claims to Live on One)

Note from Iggy: Cecil’s comments on my entry about Time’s ham-handed “review” of SL were so good they appear here as an edited post.  Cecil and I may disagree on the future of the book, but we agree 100% on the need to master visual literacy.

I understand Iggy’s point about the old media of print-based mags and newspapers feeling threatened by new interactive medias.  It is funny, though; I have done more “reading” and “typing” in the past five years than I have in my entire life. This is due to the constant, modern activity of typing and reading emails, blogs and websites (most are still text heavy).

But I don’t read many books anymore because they make me sleepy!  I don’t blame ‘text’ for that problem it’s just that I am conditioned to receive information via images and sound now. And a lot of info can be expressed in a few seconds of good image/sound media pieces. Text is a technology just like today’s medias. It was invented to provide information (creative or otherwise). The place of ‘text’ in society may be losing its importance as the main source of receiving information…but I do know the ‘personalizing’ of certain ideas and concepts can only be expressed in text format. What excites me is understanding the true power of text and utilizing that power even if it becomes marginalized in the future where learning through “interactive media” may become the norm.

I am now using voice chat in SL…cause I’m flat out tired of typing! My fingers hurt and I hate correcting my own spelling! But I will type something in chat if I think it will do the most amount of damage!

So I read that Time thing.  It “read” like the reporter had 3 months to do the article on SL and waited until 2 weeks before deadline to actually try SL….The comment about “finding a nut around every corner…go live your Real Life.”, just says to me that this person doesn’t realize that in RL there IS a nut around every corner.

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