Dove Lane

It makes me a little uncomfortable that Second Life is the platform businesses are starting to coalesce around. It’s simply not the best platform for a number of reasons. It just happens to be the first one that spoke the language of business — money. Personally, I want 3-D interactive worlds to be ready to apply to day-to-day uses. They just aren’t there yet.

The process of creating my own taxonomy of information made me think again about information silos, and think about them differently — not as rigid organizational structures, but as a dynamic way to make sense out of chaos.