DISQUS

This was a great piece and clearly shows the intelligent thought being put to the questions we face.

Coming first to SL out of curiosity, I too soon began to derive "real" income from atomic world companies. And my relationships with a number of the people I met became more than just SL relationships, meaning we use real world names.

Yet as I continued to do consulting there is a great deal of hesitation on the part of others with a different view of SL. If they do not identify themselves and I can not reach them outside of Second Life, doing work for them was not possible for me. I had been burnt by one such relationship and so am now understandably am hesitant.

Yet I'm on the board of a charity that has a SL presence and one of my questions is what is our mission here and how is it different than our mission in the physical world? How is it changed by the fact that it's perceived by some as being less personal while others would claim that it's even more personal - or with totally different personas or aspects of our selves?

Thanks for the thought provoking piece. And for providing a forum for talking about this sort of question.

Although waking up to find this idea had made it to scobleizer.com could have made my day, the real joy comes from discovering more and more that people *get* the potential of a little thing like twitter to be a force for community, connecting, encouraging, across all boundaries that normally divide us.

In the middle of the night east coast time I wasn't able to sleep so was blogging. A random tweet from you about peas flew by which I thought was dear but not too surprising. There have been many people telling me about their experience or their mom, neighbor, sister, after I found a mass in my breast.

What you did NEXT with the little pea of an idea shows me something about you that I didn't know, however Robert, and I thank you for the personal touch you gave this post. And thank the rest of those who somehow turned my frozen pea ice pack into a labor of love and support.

No matter how difficult a path, I'm glad I tweeted this from the beginning on Dec 5. For the want of an iphone I could do my imitation of you in the hospital with Milan's delivery as I schlep off to Sibley in DC on Friday!

With the semi-smart phone I'll be able to send a few tweets but won't be able to follow what you're saying back to me until I get the laptop back - hopefully Sunday. THAT can't come too soon.

Excellent & thought provoking. I'm actually sitting here thinking instead of going to the next thing on my to do list :)

I've always been perhaps not a nomad, but one who likes to network within and across groups. It's allowed me to experience the most and be stimulated by many thinkers, doers and a wide range of ideas.

How will this evolve as facebookers, twitterers, podcampers, grasshoppers, SOBs, Second Lifers, LinkedIn network and other groups of friends and colleagues roll down the road of emerging media? All I know is that it bears being aware of; and thanks to you for putting it on my radar.

Fascinating stuff for an artist / social networker to think about. Beyond that, I'd love to see an application that let us put photos of a group of people together to let us see what the collective "us" looks like.

Thanks for telling us about this!

What a great gift this is, Chris. Most excellent. My ipod is smiling.

Katie Katie, one of my favorite names - Favorite enough to name a daughter that. So I hear you deserve a very Happy birthday girl! Here's wishing you all the best.