Five years ago, I got my first death threat for something I wrote on my blog. The same week, some of those readers called my boss and tried to get me fired. A number of others publicly asserted that I supported terrorism. All because they felt that’s...

One of the reasons I admire my friend Mena is that she is remarkably prescient. I think it’s worth revisiting these posts that she wrote a year and a half ago. Her first post was a transcript of a speech she delivered, with the core concept that we...

Jason describes the blog commentor’s gaze, a rumination on how people who act unreasonably on the web fit some parts of the scientific definition of a psychopath. For what it’s worth, I was mostly just venting (posts that I write on weekends are...

Summary: In 2002, Google launched one of their few pay services, Google Answers. The service attracted only 800 responders in the past 4 years, and was shut down a few weeks ago. Three years ago, Matt Haughey created Ask MetaFilter, pays no money to...