Back from leave

Back from leave and had 146 plus feeds waiting for me.
My aim was to just clear the feeds without reading, but I got caught up in them anyway.

Highlights included:
developing avatars that have the compatibility to move between virtual worlds - so that there is no need to develop a new avatar for each new virtual world you inhabit or visit.

Wildgoose as always - thoughtful and insightful (and her new look blog looks great).

Google - a number of posts by Stephen Abram on Google and how they track your information - again that big issue of privacy and how people's attitudes to privacy are changing. The really interesting article is the one he pointed to in the Times London called Google - who's looking at you by John Arlidge
I found the quote at the end scary - " As I walk out of the Googleplex, I notice ?a new feature by the exit. It’s a giant 3-D computer-generated image of the globe which has giant red lasers shooting up into the sky. Each laser represents the number of Google search queries made at that point on the Earth’s surface. The higher the spikes, the greater the number of queries. It is supposed to be a celebration of what Google has achieved so far. But it also highlights how much of the world it has already conquered and reveals how much it soon hopes to colonise. It is the perfect metaphor for where that simple little search box we use every day has come from and what its vaulting ambitions are. It does not simply want to be a good search engine on the web: it wants to be the web."

And Librarian Kathryn has given me a challenge for later - to create a tag roll.

And I think that's enough for today!