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Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I received an email about so-and-so wanting to connect with me on Flickr. I was a little surprised because I don’t promote my Flickr account–I use it for testing, only. I was flattered that they had taken the time to look for me on Flickr. There was a second one […]

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del.icio.us for January 14

These are my links for January 14th: Trolls, Communication, and the Wild, Wild Web. | BlogHer – “I’ll never rush onto The Troll Train again.” Thoughts on Firefox 3.0 – O’Reilly XML Blog – In-Depth look at Firefox 3.0. Some changes implement released specs, some are for specs under development. Choose wisely, grasshopper. G – L – […]

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Kevin tweets

I may have to break my “No Twitter” zone just to read Kevin Marks. Yesterday he came up with, It’s an ad feminam attack which, frankly, I will make use of in the future. Then today: Yes, it’s web 2.0 misanthropy week. Who else is sounding like Scrooge? Well, me in a way. I’m tired and it shows. […]

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If the lynching crowd

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Could be persuaded to put down their tar, feathers, pitchforks, and torches, perhaps they might listen to the details coming out about Megan Meiers and the Drews and might want to consider that they acted thoughtlessly, recklessly, and without all the facts. For six weeks, Josh and Megan traded “innocuous” messages, Banas said, […]

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Cyberstalking of free speech

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This state has gone nuts since the release of the Megan Meier story. If you hadn’t heard of it, Megan was a young girl, 13 going on 14, who killed herself after receiving cruel taunts on her MySpace account. It later came out that the ‘person’ who participated in sending the […]