Read this interesting little article from the AP on how Israel used Facebook to selectively block certain people from entering the country. Now, it may seem a small thing - after all, they were putting their plans in a "public" forum. But that's my point. Facebook destroys our sensitivity to privacy. The constantly shifting privacy policy and tricky settings, the pervasive use of the tool to communicate, and the amazing way in which we become dependent on this commercial tool to organize our lives.

I dropped my FD a couple of weeks ago and began work on this site. Today I'm sending an invite to all my many friends and associates who might be interested in the regular supply of humor, irony, politics (I'm a lefty, folks, deal with it), and medtech industry news that I used to put on FB will now be found here. There's an RSS feed for your convenience, if I get some feedback I may link this up to my @mohats twitter account. There's another source of banality, but what can I do...

I thought it was intensely ironic when the Eqyptian people staged their uprising in the face of their American taxpayer funded repressive regime and there were so many commentators in the USA talking about how it was made possible by Twitter and didn't that prove how great the USA is. That had so many levels of irony to unpack that I'm still getting a chuckle thinking about it.

Think about it. Isn't this an oddly insecure culture we have now?