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Blog: Internet

  1. Tattletales

    Posted on April 22, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (7)

    If you knew that all of your interactions with people were being publicly scrutinized—your (rude) driving…your (cheap) restaurant tipping…your (gasp!) dating behavior—would you act more responsibly? Big Brother isn’t watching. But small websites are. Read full article »

  2. The Nanny Diaries

    Posted on April 8, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (47)

    On a hot afternoon in New York City, my friend Miriam was sitting at a grassy public venue, watching her child play alongside other kids in the care of various moms and nannies. A long-time New York resident, Miriam is fully aware of the city’s urban imperative: mind your own business. But she couldn’t help but notice the crying of a nearby baby, approximately nine months old, strapped in his stroller facing the sun, while his nanny ignored him and chatted with another nanny. Read full article »

  3. Death by Blog?

    Posted on March 17, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (7)

    When a 40-year-old Chicago advertising executive named Paul Tilley died recently, the cause of death was officially ruled suicide. Tilley, who oversaw the “I’m Lovin’ It” ads for McDonald’s and the creation of the “Dell Dude”, jumped from a Chicago hotel.

    But some believe that Tilley was metaphorically pushed by a steady stream of malicious comments anonymously posted about him online in the weeks before he took his life. Read full article »

  4. Shame Game

    Posted on February 19, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (6)

    If you want to send a message, the old saying goes, use Western Union. In Arizona, authorities who want to send a message to drunk drivers are using public humiliation, by posting the drivers’ photos on a website and on huge highway billboards with this scarlet letter taunt: Drive Drunk…See Your Mug Shot Here. Read full article »

  5. Crowd Scene

    Posted on February 13, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (1)

    When adventurer Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the remote Nevada desert in September 2007, there was no distress signal. But 50,000 people heard a call for help. Without knowing each other or the man they were looking for, they formed an altruistic army of volunteer searchers, unprecedented in size and extraordinary in method. Read full article »