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I learned long ago the dangers of electronic communication and just how debilitating mental illness can be. Depression isn’t something I talk about much, though there was an extended period when I wrote too much about the difficulties I was having and how I just couldn’t make people see how much they were hurting me. [...]

Fussbett Sanitario, who claims to be Wagner James Au, Twitter handle @slhamlet, and the most powerful Second Life journalist of 2007 and his buddies on Caltrops.com, an unremarkable online forum, decided it would be amusing to select a random blogger and ridicule him. It was deemed necessary to start an entire thread on Caltrops.com devoted [...]

I’ve written extensively about online reputations, social networks, and the dangers of electronic communication. Alas some people are still just plain stupid and it is starting to cost them. I’m not stupid, naive maybe, but not stupid. I Googled myself the other day and noticed that two of the top ten results were social networks [...]

This week I went to the opening address of the “Collaboration for Change: On Mental Health, Addiction and Homelessness” and being me I carefully typed up notes and observations. I then decided to turn them into something resembling a blog posting. Sat beside a Mrs. Kim, iPhone user but I could only give her my [...]

I’m not sure why, but apparently someone who posts under the name “Zseni” has taken the text from my recent post about the movie “Black Snake Moan” which I thought looked cool and posted it to some forum. Maybe they don’t like Christina Ricci or Samuel Jackson. Maybe they don’t like movies. Maybe they don’t [...]