Welcome to the real world

How often have you heard it? Those disparaging comments about spending too much time online, about how much better it is to get out there and talk to “real” people… But, you know, these people that I talk to online, they are not some kind of virtual imaginary friends, they are flesh and blood human [...]

Worth posting? Who decides?

Since I’ve been hanging out on Google+ I’ve been hearing a huge amount of discussion about what people should or shouldn’t post there. (Dontcha just love the way we humans keep trying to legislate our fellow humans’ behaviour based on our own personal preferences? But that’s for another post or two…) There’s tons of debate [...]

Starting over

I kind of fell into blogging unintentionally, without having much of a clue about what goes on in the blogosphere, and without having anything remotely resembling a plan. Asked to choose a user name, I went for Meirav, which is simply my first name – nothing imaginative there. For a headshot I used the picture [...]