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I found this yesterday while researching other things, and it's worth a read: The Internet Culture and Haiku. Though written in (obviously) in the context of poetry discussion and critique online, his points about the downsides of rapid communication and the effects of posting often apply to many an internet forum.

The biggest problem, to me, in internet communication is that people tend to respond to bullet points with bullet points - and all too often fail to address, or even see, the larger concepts.
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Wandering the links of the web, I came across the essay "Secret Names", fascinating and interesting stuff which I'll have to re-read when it's not so dang late.

My favorite quote from a quick skim:

Names are powerful.

No one involved in a "relationship" ever had a good time. One may be courting, seducing, experimenting sexually, dating, married, keeping company, and so on. But anything called "a relationship" must eventually result in sorrow, as the participants are unwilling to examine and name its nature.

Profound?
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Well, no. Not fifty ways to leave your lover, but ways to inspire you when starting a new journal. Twenty ways to fill Page One. Might also be useful as general battering rams for writers block, or to inspire a LJ entry.

Oh hell, I can't resist.

This is Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (as sung Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem):



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