'Cybersmears' on 'dissing sites'

They're along the lines of RateMyTeachers.com and RateMyProfessors.com, and they're all about exposing not just bad behavior, but actions the "disser" simply doesn't like. Calling them "dissing sites," the Chicago Tribune tells the story of a lawyer who left a pitiful tip (he said mistakenly) and found his name on the cheapskate list at BitterWaitress.com. "He was none too pleased that a waitress had lifted information from his credit card - his name - and posted it on the Internet." Then there's JobSchmob.com and Consumerist.com. The point in the kid-tech new space is how common it's becoming to take one's beef, whatever it is, public and how little the subjects of those beefs can do about it.