ToneCheck, a new company that just launched, has a program that plugs into the popular e-mail software Microsoft Outlook and scans email messages, flagging sentences and phrases that might carry unintended emotion.

Gosh no one from the suburbs would ever need such a thing. It's built right into the psyche after a generation or two

Interesting! I also just heard about companies that manage your Internet reputation. I wish I had more of an online reputation. There's someone at the Guggenheim Museum in NY with my same name, and she takes up all the Google hits of my name.