Post the name and brief description of the community you've chosen here, along with a URL so we can check it out.
Submitted by ddd on Mon, 01/29/2007 - 8:36am.
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Davis, Diane - RHE 330C
I have decided to join the community at slashdot.org, this site posts links to technology related news articles and then discusses them.
Hey, Arnold. Pls offer us a URL for info about MapleStory and a brief description of the game.
thnks
For my cyber-culture report I would like to research Second Life http://www.secondlife.com/
This is a virtual world with more than 30,000 current users and more than 3 million avatars. This virtual world allows the user to create an avatar and have it interact with other avatars in different world settings. Similar to chat rooms, only here you see a created image of that user.
G. David Nerio
I've decided to research Letsrun, an site dedicated to the running community. Specifically, I will join the massage message board attached to the main site.
I've decided to join Keyboard Cafe. It's just a casual meeting place for chat I found on Google. Hopefully it'll be worthwhile!
I will be researching www.deviantart.com, an online art community. Artists post their artwork and other artists comment on it. There is also a forum and chat area. I am already a member, you can check out my site at http://ladygalad.deviantart.com. As you can see, I have been a member for a while, but I have never entered the chatroom before, so that will be my focus.
I'll be joining the eBay community. I didn't realize that it offered much more than mere buying and selling. There are tons of blogs, chat rooms etc. as well, all targeted at specific interest groups.
-Hallie Roe
I'm going to join www.makeupalley.com or MUA for short. Its a community about makeup, where members all have profiles, wishlists and stuff for trading and selling to other members, and message boards both for makeup topics and an off-topic forum.
I found a free role playing game called Runescape ( runescape.com ) while searching the other day. It seems like a pretty straightforward community with forums, chats, and many of the other aspects talked about.
I'll be jumping into this charming, 2-dimensional, stick-figure based MMORPG. In addition to fighting computer enemies and other players across a "huge, seamless, 2-D world", one can participate in the discussion forums. It looks like fun.
http://mysite.verizon.net/bigsnoot/index.html
Ajai Raj
I am going to enter the Virtual Magic Kingdom. All these virtual communities are new to me ( I just use Facebook). Anyways, this one seems pretty simple and straight forward. You get to create your own avatar and buy things for him and play games. It's is basically set up for pre-teens, but when I visited it, it seemed like teenagers were in there too. It should be interesting. I get to act like a kid again!!!
http://vmk.disney.go.com/vmk/en_US/index?name=VMKHomePage
Mackenzie Nye
This forum takes its name from a quote by Henry David Thoreau: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." This is a primarily Libertarian community, where just about anything seems to be discussed from an extremely liberal standpoint. There is a topic entitled "1,001 Things To Do Until We're Free", "Outrage of the Week" and even a place to caption or download and photoshop photos of idiocy. The first one is some moron holding a gun to his ear to plug it while his buddy fires a round off next to him. My bet is he actually is an ATF agent.
http://www.strike-the-root.com/cgi-local/yabb/YaBB.pl
Trevor Wallace,
trevor23@mail.utexas.edu
I've been reading about people waiting in line overnight to get the new expansion for World of Warcraft and also know a few people who are really into it. I'm going to dive into this community and see what the fuss is all about.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com
Jason Childers
Hey,
I've decided to join the Guild War community. I've never played an online game and I figure this is a good opportunity.
I'll be looking at the English Wikipedia, specifically the behind-the-scenes quasi-bureaucracy that determines what Wikipedia is and is not. The main section of this is the Village Pump, a wiki-forum where users discuss policies. However, there also exist various departments which actually implement the various policies and decide on certain aspects of the site (such as which article becomes featured on the front page each day).
Stuart Geiger
I've switched over to a free (until lv39) 3D MMORPG based out of Korea, called PristonTale. It looks like it's been around for awhile so it should have a pretty solid userbase, and the graphics are pretty. Looks to be standard hack-and-slash-and-magic action. Looking forward to it.
Sorry to switch kinda late in the game, but StickOnline fell a little flat. Too two-dimensional for me, not enough depth. I'll stop making puns now.
Ajai Raj