A concise guide to online etiquette

As the information revolution continues in full swing, with Apple recently taking a page from Microsoft by suing its way into total domination of a portion of the business – nice move, Apple – I guess I’d kind of had stronger hopes for humankind than all of this electronic democratization has produced.

Not unlike the wildly unpleasant experience one gets while driving the nation’s road-rage-infected highways – motorists now mimicking the early days of the Morton Downey Jr. show as a matter of course – I continue to be astounded how the promise of an interconnected online world has gone off the rails, so quickly.