Geeky Chic

Phase I of my summer is complete — I finished the Bar on Thursday, and since then, the question almost everyone that I see asks me is, “So, did you pass?”  I have no way of evaluating my performance, so all I can report is that I am relieved that it is over, at least for now.

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I clicked on this article by way of Arts & Letters Daily because I thought it was a standard critique of the N.Y. Times “Portraits of Grief.”  It starts off that way, but instead morphs into a discussion of crowd theory, privacy, the fine line between the public and private, and the selves that we present to the world (“personal branding”). He even uses a deft anecdote about HLS Professor Larry Tribe to illustrate that we live in an “Omnipticon,” where “many are watching the many, even though no one knows precisely who is watching or being watched at any given time.” It seems relevant to Anna’s comment about how our websites misportray us.