Oversharing on oversharing

After reading Steven Johnson's wonderful essay on publicness, Mark Dery came to the conclusion that I should not talk about my cancer and my penis. He says I and so-called oversharers like me have a "disease of the psyche." He says we are "redrawing the boundaries of publicly acceptable behavior." That is to say, he doesn't deem it acceptable.

But in this, Dery reveals far more about himself than I reveal about me. All you know about me is that my penis doesn't work well. What we know about D...