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You Don’t Live in the Twitterverse: a Plea to Ground Yourself in Place

He surely didn’t know it, but journalist David Dobbs recently put his finger on a problem that’s been bugging me for some time. Writing in his Wired blog, Dobbs made the observation that, In my own life, many if not most of my most vital social connections — bonds of mutual benefit and regard — […]

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