Mumblings on the virtual world.

For reasons that I won't go into I have an awful lot of time on my hands at the moment. An awful lot of that is spent alone too. This has resulted in me dipping a paw into the world of being a netizen. Hence we have this, a blog, it seemed like the right thing to do, although what I am going to do with it another question altogether. I also have a twitter account, @master_grundy, should any of you read this and care to get a more concise version of what I might be thinking.
Spent an hour or so looking around and came to the conclusion twitter is not about about people posting inane comments about their equally inane life. If you had a life you wouldn't be spending it mindlessly sharing it with the rest of the world.
It is, I concluded, a very pure way to provide information. It is a way for companies and well known people to deal directly with their fanbase. I very much doubt too many people will follow my tweets, or indeed read this blog. But I followed Stephen Fry, and Billy Bragg , and Kevin Rudd. I will have regular, if rather one sided conversations with these people. It is an intriguing concept.
I also noted, and duly followed, the character from Neighbours, Zeke Kinski. A great meshing of new and old technology. A writer, in character, tweets, naturally the tweets follow whichever disaster is happening to beset Ramsey St. surely the most afflicted street in all of Australia.
This so-called virtual world is certainly a new frontier for me.