…living life in 19/7 time

Once again words are tossed around the Internet without much regard for the harm they do. This debate started over the weekend (as most of them do), and rages on. Two and a half years after Kathy Sierra’s withdrawal from the Internet, I’m still writing about the same stuff. I suppose I will be until I decide it’s not worth the effort or things change.

It’s somewhat bittersweet to write about this today, given the news that @megapixel, aka Megan Porter, died last week in a head-on collision on a Texas highway. She was 24 years old. She was someone I didn’t follow regularly, but intersected with via others who did. It is a stark and pointed reminder that those words floating up on your screen emanate from real people in real time who get into real cars and might not come back alive. It’s worth keeping in mind. I’d like to think that the last thing I said to someone online or face-to-face would be something kind, or encouraging, after all. Not everyone agrees. [click to continue…]

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