Monthly Archives: July 2010

We Know Too Much About Each Other

By Jinx | Published: July 28, 2010
Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal bemoans the state of our private affairs and how rapidly we are losing a notion of privacy in our culture.  Notions such as seclusion, freedom from interference or intrusion, privacy, discretion and concealment no longer carry the weight or meaning we once thought they did. The Eyes Have It is Noonan’s [...]
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‘The Web Means the End of Forgetting’

By Jinx | Published: July 28, 2010
Want to know something about someone?  Just Google their name and their history is at your fingertips.  Online databases and social networking allow you to learn their political and religious affiliations, the private events of their lives, their financial status, their comings and goings- their good behavior and their bad. “The Web Means the End of [...]
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The Necessity of Netiquette

By Jinx | Published: July 27, 2010
I suppose I’m on a soapbox but I just deleted 151 emails, half of which seemed to be written by….well, I shall refrain myself.  Why do we think Netiquette is beneath us? 
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