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Phone Company Bid to Keep Data From N.S.A. Is Rejected - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    NSA... phone company customer records....
norma martin

Writing in a Nonstop World - NYTimes.com - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Once upon a time, we wrote with pen and paper..... Those days are gone.
norma martin

Consortium Wants Standards for 'Internet of Things' - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Follow-up on Cerf lecture
purplekimchi

4 Apps Teens Love that Parents Need to Monitor - The Good Men Project - 3 views

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    I've heard of SnapChat, but not the other three. Scary to think! I have teens and one of them does use SnapChat, but he's on Instagram more. I worry about it all! #emac6300
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    All hail the unintended consequences of advancement in technology and industrialization as a whole. I think I, like many people, am in that dizzying stage of love and hate relationship with all things digital.
purplekimchi

Me, Myself, and Authenticity - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • But some linguists and music historians say the reality is more nuanced. For one thing, frequent use of "I" doesn't signal a haughtier sense of one's status but the opposite, according to James Pennebaker, the social psychologist who invented the text-analysis program used in the 2011 study of song lyrics. The higher a person's standing, the less frequently that person uses 'I' words, according to Pennebaker in his book, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us.
  • People who tell the truth use the word 'I' more.
  • No, "we" isn't necessarily such a communal word after all. It often comes off as presumptive and exclusionary, and can be seen as one group speaking—out of turn—for others.
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  • Even in science writing, where personal pronouns were once forbidden, some journals are now open to informal, active language—though "we" has gained acceptance more quickly than "I."
  • But if someone is saying something that happened to them and it resonates with your own experience, then you don't call it narcissistic. You call it poetry.
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    No, "we" isn't necessarily such a communal word after all. It often comes off as presumptive and exclusionary, and can be seen as one group speaking-out of turn-for others.
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