Julian Bleecker has been known to opine that "the Internet-of-Things is not an Internet of Arphids," and I have similar reservations about any possible role for virtual worlds, or, as virtual worlds are sometimes reframed, "The 3-D Web."
I'm not sure if it demonstrates any kind of advance that a Second Life avatar can hang around in Second Life, blogging. I guess I could be argued into some deeper understanding of this effort, but, well: couldn't the guy running that avatar just open a window to a web browser and blog his head off? Where's the value proposition?
I'm having trouble taking this seriously until it achieves real-world traction. For instance: how about designing some object in Second Life, then outputting it as a .stl file, and then fabbing it? An instantiated 3-D Web object isn't a "spime," because even though it's virtually designed and fabbed, it isn't trackable, traceable, uniquely identified and recyclable. Clearly an instantiated 3-D Web object would need a term of its own, something like "kirkyan," though, to the extent that I understand a "kirkyan," that isn't a kirkyan, either.
http://www.3pointd.com/20060607/blogged-from-within-sl/
In the meantime, look, a flesh-colored cloud of polygons inside Second Life can blog! Wow!
