This newsletter was sent out over a year ago and we received numerous ugly and defiant responses from individuals who felt they had the right to communicate the way they wanted to in an email and did not appreciate my ‘elitist’ directions. I’m far from an elitist but I stand by netiquette. Messages are sent [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2010
A Plea for Netiquette- Manners Matter
Posted in Newsletter Tagged email manners, group mailings, netiquette, online civility, rules for email, spam Comments closed
Reading Under the Colorado Skies
Most of us don’t have the resources for beach vacations, cruises or travel adventures but we do have the great Colorado landscape to remind us to balance our lives, slow down and breathe in a larger ecology. Summer allows me to sit on my back patio, watch the hummingbirds and leisurely read books. Here are a few [...]
Posted in Newsletter Tagged Bach, Escher, Godel, Hamlet's Blackberry, John Crowley, Steig Larsson, summer reading, the cuckoo's Egg Comments closed
Computer Ethics- How sinful are we?
Revisiting the 10 Commandments for Computers- How ethical are we now? Each day we struggle with the morality of computers and living online. We witness wild and outrageous rumors and falsehoods spread virally in nanoseconds, we receive spam selling products and ideologies, we visit websites enticing violence, we practice the banality of Twitter, we join Facebook and have our personal [...]
Posted in Newsletter Tagged 10 commandments for computers, CEI, Computer Ethics Institue, Computer Ethics Institute, cybercrime, ethics, hacker ethics, hackers, history of computers, netiquette, online civility, Steven Levy Comments closed