Thursday, May 04, 2006

Update?

I've rewritten this paper along a different slant, and changed all the sentences which made me cringe upon rereading months later. I may merge the two.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Intellectual and physical suicide

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Nobody mistakes virtual life for real life, even though it has an emotional reality to many of us. (Rheingold, 2000:22)

Blair’s addictive personality caused him to become essential to the WELL’s conferences; his posts were so frequent that they enmeshed parts of the conferences. That made his last WELL act especially antisocial: he used something called a scribble tool to seek out all his posts and delete them, leaving gaping holes in the WELL’s conferences and destroying whole sections of the community, as much as if he had set off a bomb in a busy and crowded office building. Though removing comments on the WELL was allowed, at the author’s discretion, it left behind a blank post—glaring proof that something was once there. Blair’s scribbling of his entire WELL history was ‘an act of intellectual suicide.’ (Rheingold, 2000:20) It was then less of a shock to the community when he committed physical suicide several weeks later.

Monday, August 29, 2005

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