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My Facebook Friend and Real Life Neighbor, Melynn, asked what I thought of this LA Times article "You've Got Too Much Email." It took me a while to answer because, well, I had too much email . . . but, while I agree about the quantity of info we have to sort in our online lives, I don't agree with some of its other premises about either the problems of distraction or online sociality's destruction of real sociality.

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans, still in draft form, for authority "for the goverment to examine the content of any emai, file transfer or Web search." Read about this--and do what you can to prevent it!

Who would have guessed that Ambrose Bierce, the famous satirist, would have invented the emoticon in 1912, on a typewriter \__/!