October 13, 2004 – 3:59 pm
I just recently started playing Second Life, a massive online world in which the players themselves create most of the content. It’s amazingly addictive, and brings to mind happy memories of playing a character in the text-based online world, LambdaMOO.
One of the issues that often comes up in online worlds is that of gender. An [...]
October 27, 2003 – 1:59 pm
The Gender Genie is a fascinating Web tool/toy that uses an algorithm to determine the gender of an author, based on a sample of that author’s writing. So far, it’s been spot on in detecting that I’m male.
It’s interesting to note that there is more statistical “maleness” in samples I plugged in from my book [...]
