I am at SXSW spending a lot of time thinking about the raw unfiltered aspects of blogs and balancing it with the need to protect people's privacy.

I am getting ready for my panel on technology and democracy and want to clear my head. I am spacy from lack of sleep.

I briefly checked my email to find that a person whom I love very much has just suffered a major failure. It is around writing, which I also love, and it is around problems that I've spoken with this person about it the past, including some fairly specific suggestions that I encouraged her to act upon, but I don't believe she ever did act upon.