http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/susanmernit http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/susanmernit Former 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.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=382698&view=rss&microfeed=true After two years at Yahoo, Susan Mernit got the ax at Yahoo Personals. Know any other layoff victims? Send them in.

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