In Praise of Twitter

Getting purple tipped hair in SL to match purple streaked hair in RL $300ishL,
Getting purple boots to match purple tipped hair $300ishL,
Shopping in SL with good friends in RL who live on different sides of the US...priceless!

pic of Kix and I (Puppytoes) bald in Second Life

After today, my Follow Cost in Twitter is definitely going to go up! As of today, my follow cost is 2.27 per day with 13.55 per day with the last 100 updates. So those of you following me...watch out!

But what does this have to do with me being bald in Second Life (SL). Well, tomorrow I present at nmc‘s Rock the Academy fall virtual symposium. And we are presenting in Second Life. Well, I’ve played; however, I’ve been too lazy to really change up my avatar. And although I’ve been trying to get the time to “pimp out” my avatar, of course, I’m down to the wire and trying to do it at the last minute. When I should be grading papers for my Women & Film class tonight, I’m instead trying to run around in SL figuring out how to buy clothes, get dressed, not embarrass myself and flash the world...you know, basic newbie things.

After wandering around by myself for a while, I wailed on Twitter with a “crud, crud, crud.” And Twitter came to the rescue! Before I knew it, I had more people than I could interact with trying to help me “get dressed” in SL. So this blog is a big “thank you” to @whitetshirts (aka Something), @greenteach3 (aka Faythe), and @befitt (aka Kix) for helping me out today. This is also a general thank you to the microblog-o-sphere as well. And this is finally a reflective moment about the extreme usefulness of Twitter as a professional tool for those who work and play in our contemporary techno-culture. Not only is Twitter worthwhile to study in 21st century scholarship, it is a scholarly tool for the 21st century as well!

pic of Kix and I hanging out at the nmc virtual reception. I won $1000L for the scavenger hunt!

now if I could just figure out how to get my cool purple boots to look right on my funky SL feet…

November 05 2008 | Posted in 21st Century Scholarship