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Ork? Orkin? Orkut? The Lord of the (web)Rings?

February 3, 2004 at 10:11 pm | In yulelogStories | 3 Comments

Jeneane Sessum is a powerhouse of information. By following her bloglinks and her community and network links on Orkut, I can find out so much… It’s mind-boggling. Some people I know (like my husband) might think there’s an element of trivia here, but I’m not so sure — after all, the only reason I ever went in for academia is because I’m naturally snoopy (research, sweetie, research!). Around 4th grade I discovered, however, that being a secret agent (I dreamed of being an Avenger!) was too sordid and dangerous in real life, but when I was 23 it struck me that being a researcher was a safe alternative. (Ha.) So, I like to snoo… I mean, research. Because of Jeneane, I saw Paul Boutin’s blog where I learned that Wesley Clark is on Orkut. And by following another link of hers, I wound up at BoingBoing where they (she? Xeni?) posed the Orkut = Roach Motel analogy: you can check in, but you can’t check out. She has a whole string of links to everyone who has been posting about Orkut and stuff about it.

But you know what’s really weird? Shelley Powers managed to check out of Orkut! Incroyable. I read her blog …and then I quit Orkut and thought she was just saying that she was leaving. But she did it. And here I was thinking Orkut is Orkin with its guarantee that it will kill you dead….