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BIMD: Back in my day ROFLACGU: Rolling on the floor laughing and can't get up ML2N?: Matlock tonight? OMGWTF: Oh my. Gee whiz. Tutti-frutti. MBDC: My bad. Damn cataracts. WIOLATS: Wore it out like a turn signal. GTALNINFTCW: Gee, thanks a lot, now I'll never finish that crossword.

A story treats the material like a complete whole, and it has context. While a blog offers schizophrenic, just-in-time information to help me tell my own story somewhere else, a book is, or should be, a story about me, using the technology, encountering challenges, overcoming them, and emerging the hero.

il avait supprimé l'ensemble des e-mails reçus pendant son absence. Avec un argument solide : si des messages vraiment importants ou urgents étaient dans le lot, les expéditeurs ne tarderaient pas à se manifester à nouveau, par e-mail... ou par un autre moyen. Relativisez !

Andrew Rasiej, the founder of Personal Democracy Forum, which monitors the intersection of politics and technology, points out that when networks judge their success by who got the biggest share of the television audience, “they are still counting horses while the world has moved on to counting locomotives.” The Web, in its infinite iterations, is eroding all 20th-century media.

“Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S.,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. “There is an ongoing concern that U.S. intelligence agencies will gather this information without legal process. There is particular sensitivity about access to financial information as well as communications and Internet traffic that goes through U.S. switches.”