Don't Blog

danah boyd stops reading RSS feeds, a way to read hundreds of your favorite blogs in much less time. Key phrases from her testimony:

• abusively addictive relationship
  
• 6 hours a day
  
• not healthy
  
• regaining self-control and stability
  
• losing one's mind
  
• lost touch
  
• one-sided perspective on people
  
• saw a limited segment of the world
  
• guilt for not engaging
  
• the feelings of intensity overload
  
• the cruel pain of being a true information junkie

One more victim of information overload, sipping with a straw from that fire hydrant of a blogosphere.

"The first post is free." Blogging is crack for those who can type. New York Times, 27 May 2004: For Some, the Blogging Never Stops (free subscription required). Interviews with blog addicts and their families; some in recovery, others not. I especially liked Gregor trying to virtualize his brain; saved only by being in the real world (travel, new job).

via weblog pusher Loïc Le Meur.

AP: Girl Says Internet Spat Prompted Slaying.

... She led 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai to an empty classroom during their lunch hour Tuesday, slit her neck and arms with a box-cutter, and left her to bleed to death. ... All signs pointed to a close friendship between the girls, who were in art class together, played basketball together, shared a group diary and passed notes on a home page bulletin board. ... But Mitarai angered the girl when she wrote negative Internet messages about her appearance, the Kyodo News Agency reported. The girl told police she decided to kill Mitarai when a final message commented on her weight.

About time.

Just one more post before the meeting. I gotta blog about it.