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NY Times Article on Steve Gilliard's Death

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Posted on Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 09:14:35 PM EST
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The New York Times has an article on Steve Gilliard's passing.

May he rest in peace.

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    NY Times Article on Steve Gilliard's Death | 2 comments (2 topical)

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    by LarryE on Wed Jun 06, 2007 at 01:48:23 AM EST
    I was a little put off by the last paragraphs of the NYT story for reasons I can't really explain; they just felt "off" to me, maybe a little condescending.

    Still, they do point up a difference between our online "lives" and our face-to-face ones: For all our talk about an online "community" we often know very little about each other beyond our politics - while we can at the same time share a classroom, an office, hell, sometimes even either an intimate or a blood relationship with someone and yet have no clue as to each other's politics or ethical convictions.

    I don't have anything profound to say here, but that is what the article got me thinking about.

    They struck me as strange too (none / 0) (#2)
    by conchita on Wed Jun 06, 2007 at 09:27:40 AM EST
    I found myself wondering why she was pointing to this rather than talking about how powerful his writing was and how meaningful his contributions were to so many, or about how people through the community rallied to support him while in the hospital.

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