M is for Myg

Prior to Second Life, I thought had a serious affinity for cyber culture. I had a myspace (which back then was even updated), a couple of blogs. Hell, I started blogging before blogger.com even existed, tediously updating my website with new stories about what I was up to, and I even had some readers. A couple of years ago I even Stumbled!

But with Second Life and this blog my adventures in cybering really began to get deep. Now I’m so far in I can’t even figure out which offshoot of the tunnel leads back to daylight.

Below is a sampling of my online hangouts - places I may put my stamp outside of here and Second Life. The list is a little bit terrifying, actually. I think I need to get out more…
FlickR
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mygdala/ This is a must - probably my most heavily used portal. Nearly all the photos here are hotlinked from flickR. I don’t participate much in the groups, but I do peruse my contact photos often and exchange comments on images.

Twitter
http://twitter.com/myg I’d gotten into Twitter for awhile but then gave up on it because it was so frackin slow. I recently got back into it though. It’s a great way to hear about or get the word out quickly about cool stuff. I find Twittering from Second Life most fun with Ordinal Malaprop’s Twitterbox.

StumbleUpon
http://myg.stumbleupon.com/ Another online obsession that I’d once dabbled in but gave up, recently started again. There’s no better way to procrastinate from that report you don’t want to write. I’ve found the added benefit that by stumbling our podcasts from Clockwork, we’ve gotten huge increases in traffic, which I really appreciate.

Vox
http://mygdala.vox.com This is where M is for Myg began, back in January–not long at all after I started in Second Life. Not sure why, but I just sat down one day and said, “I know! Why don’t I blog about my Second Life?” I half expected it to die out like 5 or other creative projects I’d had going at the time, but you all started reading it and here we are today. I still post to it every once in awhile, though I’m not sure why. I like the neighborhood feature of it a lot but don’t like the limitations of the design.

Del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/mygdala This seems like it should and could be a very cool way to share websites that I like, sorta a la StumbleUpon, but I haven’t gotten my brain around it yet. I do tag things but not terribly often.

Good Old Myspam
http://myspace.com/mygdala I used to dig myspace, but my meatperson’s myspace was so badly hacked by a fucking spam twat and that it left me really cold. I never got any help from them either, so I couldn’t fix the page. Anyway, I made a Myspace early on in my Second Life career, and it’s how I met friends Like DCPunk Dix. Back then I was tickled by the crossover from Myspace to SL–that was prior to getting hooked into the bloggers group. Now I never check myspace, but I do still have it.

Digg
http://www.digg.com/users/mygdala I’m not really into Digg, but I saw a few blog posts had Digg badges and I wanted to help promote them. If I like a post and it’s got a badge, it will def get digged by me. I believe in supporting people whose work I value.

Mashable
http://my.mashable.com/myg Can someone tell me what the fuck this is? I don’t know that there’s any point to having it, but supposedly it integrates a lot of the above functions into one page. Maybe it’s true, I honestly haven’t had time to find out. The interface doesn’t do much for me - you’d be surprised at how much that makes a difference. Maybe not.

Blogger
http://mygdala.blogspot.com When blogger.com first launched it was like a miracle. I had a number of blogs with blogger. But when google took it over, I started to hate its guts. It now seems terribly clunky and awkward to me (no offense to all you blogger.com bloggers!) I’m a wordpress gal now. I have this so I could comment on certain blogs way back when.

Pownce
http://pownce.com/myg/ (TY Desertwolf Longstaff for the invite - I have 5 left if anyone wants one…) I haven’t even begun to get into this one.

Last.fm
http://www.last.fm/user/mygdaladotcom/ Okay and one last one. I thought with our foray into podcasting and Alex’s club pursuits with Clockwork, it’d be good to have a last.fm page too. I still haven’t done anything here, but damn it’s a pretty awesome resource for finding new music. Just beginning to scratch the surface here.

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=595792920 I don’t know why I didn’t get a nice little “mygdala” tag at the end of my facebook link, but oh well. I just created this today because I have been reading about it constantly and want to see if it’s cool or not. So if you’re on, add me, k?

So that’s it. And now you know, I want to know, where do you hang out online if you’re not in SL? (Or while you’re in SL and we think you’re IM’in? What do you get out of these places? Anything?

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 18th, 2007 at 1:11 pm and is filed under Second Life, meta.