Source:Valleywag
A friend at U. Mass,-Amherst tells this story: A couple of painters in the master’s program for Fine Arts were doing well until they got sucked into Second Life. Rather than return to painting, they came up with a brilliant idea: Submit their Second Life gaming as their art! You know: blah blah Baudrillard’s simulacrum mwah mwah. It might’ve worked, except one of the profs went SL-diving himself and came up with example after example of far more impressive simulacra whipped up by 14-year-olds in Nebraska. The hapless students’ efforts, which largely consisted of pretending to be gay and annoying other characters, wasn’t recognized as the scholarly performance art for which they’d hoped to win a sheepskin.
Source:Valleywag
Using advanced statistical methodology, egoblogger Robert Scoble has once again proven that no one reads Valleywag. Granted, it takes the pressure off. El Scobleator reports that Fake Steve Jobs’s audience “clicks at 20x the rate that Valleywag’s does.” You could read this as a backhanded refutation of our crossover into the 100,000-plus pageviews per day club. Fake Steve draws 30,000 to 40,000 dailies, according to FSJ blogger Dan Lyons. Scoble could be saying that our 100K stats page is a lie. We prefer to take him at face value: It’s not enough that we report about him. Robert Scoble needs you to click through to his site, time and time again, with all the love in your heart.
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