Lost in Tech

It’s taken me a while, I decided that before this blog got any bigger I would change formats and move away from Blogger.

Don’t get me wrong, I still love Blogger – It’s been around a long time. Things in the Blogger development world just didn’t seem to move fast enough for me. Going from Blogger to WordPress feels like moving from a rented flat to your own house. It’s your own space, and whatever you want to do with it you can. I didn’t thing that switching blog systems would make a blogging feel so fresh. The move was so easy, I was able to setup WordPress and then inmport all my old Blogger posts just by using the ‘import’ feature inside Wordpress.

I use the Joomla content management system for some of my other sites, and i’ve often thgouht it was kind of overkill for some of the content on those sites to use such an in-depth system like Joomla. I’m going to be looking at converting one of them as a test in the coming months just to see how smoothly it goes.

The virtual world known as ‘Second Life’ was created in 2003 by Linden Research inc (commonly known as Linden Labs), It’s basically an open 3D world with a real-world economy selling virtual cash for real cash in exchange for buying and selling virtual items (once you’ve earned the virtual equivalent of $150 U.S you can get it turned into real cash into a bank account) It also has a fairly extensive scripting language to enable users to build pretty much anything they want. They can then use or trade the items they make. Second life has always had a lot of hype around it – they’ve made a lot of news about how big their real-world economy is. Recently however they’ve been overshadowed by larger online communities, web 2.0 style social networking sites that include video and audio in closed communities. Second life has taken a back seat to Facebook, and YouTube with tens of millions of users and been left playing catch-up.