What’s Private for You?

Web 2.0 is all about shar­ing and col­lab­o­ra­tion. There have been lots of sto­ries late­ly that have shown some­thing of a back­lash against that shar­ing, point­ing out how over­shar­ing makes us easy tar­gets for crim­i­nals, talk­ing about cyber­stalk­ing, etc. That’s…

About Depression

People who haven’t expe­ri­enced seri­ous clin­i­cal depres­sion are sel­dom able to under­stand how dif­fer­ent it is from “being down” or “the blues,” those dips every adult human has felt at some point. They’re often judg­men­tal, and see those who are severely…

What to Say?

A friend just post­ed one of those “anony­mous con­fes­sion posts,” enabling anony­mous com­ment­ing and dis­abling IP address log­ging. I nev­er have any­thing to say in those threads. I can’t think of any­thing that I would­n’t just say as me. I…

Defining Hate

One of the ques­tions in that last post made me think about the def­i­n­i­tion of hate. I also think that adding “is there any­one you hate?” might make sense. In fact, I went back and did so. sam­bear taught his chil­dren that…

Navel Gazing

How do I rec­on­cile treat­ing peo­ple with respect with enjoy­ing snark­ing at them when I think it’s deserved? Damn. I’m not sure that I can. Do I have to give up the snark? It’s pos­si­ble that I should always communicate…

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