Tricycle | Awake in the World

Some time ago Tricycle published an article that caused more grief than we could have imagined. The premise was that online discourse is afflicted with the "disinhibition effect," which enables people to say things and do things they would not ordinarily say or do in face-to-face encounters. The author took Buddhist bloggers in particular to task, raising a firestorm of protest that included accusations of shoddy reporting and poor editorial choices on my part. More »