• We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To

    Geeks on Twitter act like rabbis debating arcane points of the Talmud

    By Jackson West, 10:00 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008, 675 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

    european_shtetl.jpgFormer Yahoo Personals exec Susan Mernit recently returned from a conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. The trip inspired an analogy: She compares the insular community of hyperconnected techies to the shtetls formed by Jews of the European diaspora to protect their community from the ignorance and prejudice of illiterate gentiles. Except they speak Nerdic instead of Yiddish.

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