Irwin
Courterly
2008
Volume VII
In this issue:
- What's Private is Public is Private Editorial
- Face-off on Facebook by Xippi
- Putting the "I" in iPod by Appel Uhvmaiay
Editor
Jennie Abbingsole
Contributors
Many thanks to our emeritus contributor and former co-editor, Robin S Brooks.
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The theme for the back-dated Winter 2000 issue will be entertainment: music, movies, theater, dominoes. You name it! Email your contributions
Public vs Private
The personal may be political, but now also private is public.
One of the most painfully obvious examples of this are personal phone conversations on public transit: I ride the bus to work most days, and I have heard much more about people's health, finance, and other intimate business and information than I really cared to. What do I do? Plug up my ears with music (see Putting the "I" in iPod).
Certainly blogging, and then Friendster and MySpace now somewhat overshadowed by Facebook, and on the side Twitter and high-speed SMS phone text messaging help us broadcast the mundane, profane, and inane to friend and strangers alike.
Faceless Facebook
The social networking site...by Xippi
Lucky
Putting the "I" in iPod
by Myna Yore-Bisnez
On school field trips in the 1980's, my classmates and I were prohibited from bringing Walkmans with us because they were considered antisocial. Now they are almost a matter of survival...
Thanks to Jen at Slow Poke Comics for this fabulous comic! It only slightly exaggerates my experience on the bus most days.
