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Kathy Sierra's charges put blog responsibility questions front and center

Kathy Sierra's charges put blog responsibility questions front and centerKathy SierraYou write:'Real people don't meet a tool like Blogger or TypePad and, upon learning they can set up a group blog, think "Gee! How cool. Let me get my lawyer (what lawyer?) on the phone to draft up...

Tags: Blogging, Social Security, Operational accounting, Kathy Sierra, blog, blog responsibility, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-03-29

Identity rape and mob mentality

Allen Herrell, one of the accused attackers in the Kathy Sierra controversy, has written a long email to Doc Searls explaining that his entire online identity has been compromised. If true, and I believe it, because I have known Allen for many years, it appears there have been many more...

Tags: Blogging, Kathy Sierra, e-mail, Allen Herrell, identity

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Kathy Sierra's charges put blog responsibility questions front and center

The frightening threats against Kathy Sierra have been discussed on perhaps hundreds of blogs and in the press yesterday and today. Also under scrutiny is Kathys implication of various bloggers as bearing some responsibility for a third partys or third parties conduct which is rightly and roundly being condemned...

Tags: Blogging, blog, Kathy Sierra, real people

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Blogs and thick skin

Kathy Sierras bad day is raining all over the Web. Theres a sickening lull in debate going on as people react with the kind of horror reserved for mock outrage similar to Casablancas Captain Renault: "Im shocked, shocked to find out theres gambling going on here!" Amazingly, there are jerks...

Tags: Chris Locke, Kathy Sierra, blogging, Sierra, jerk, blog

Blog posts 2007-03-27

Anonymity on the net

Anybody who has spent time online will know that the ability to publish at the push of a button, anonymously, often brings out the worst in human nature. Most often it ranges from poor taste humor, to somebody getting personal just because they disagree with you. But then there is...

Tags: Blogging, Kathy Sierra, Ive

Blog posts 2007-03-27

ETech Day One: Bad news, good news

Im at ETech this week and theres already been a change in plans. Kathy Sierras tutorial on Creating Addictive Customer Experiences was canceled reason unknown but were all hoping it was just logistics and not something serious. Thats the bad news. The good news is that Im able instead to...

Tags: Instant messaging, ETech, innovation, IM, Kathy Sierra

Blog posts 2007-03-26

Additional Resources

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Beware of blog: A rush to judgment

Beware of blog: A rush to judgmentBlogsEspecially blogs of professional business and news services should still follow proper journalistic guidelines.Some of ZDnet's own bloggers are guilty of poor reporting of facts. It has come back to bite them on several occasions as well.I take all blogs with a grain...

Tags: Blogging, blog

Discussion threads 2007-04-17

Beware of blog: A rush to judgment

Its been exciting to be a part of the "blogosphere" these past few years. Blogs are a new, targeted, instant, personal, and unfiltered source of information. Because theyre new, all the rules and social norms are being worked out "on the fly". Because theyre targeted, each blog is like one...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Earth to Craig Newmark: what Internet are you on?

I heard Craig Newmark on the radio today. Schlumpy Craig, as New York magazine calls him, was on NPRs All Things Considered laying out his theory of human nature. Humans are OK, a smiling Craig reassures us: I used to share the cynicism common to many nerds: that people...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Thank you for the blogging guidelines, but no thanks

Im glad people are, at least, thinking about the fallout from the Kathy Sierra mess. But crafting guidelines for polite blogging and Web publishing is the furthest thing from what we need. In a pluralistic society we have to rely on the reflection of the individual rather than rules to...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-04-09

Tim O'Reilly's code of (mis)conduct

So Tim OReilly, Web 2.0s philosopher-king apologist, has an excuse for the rampant and uncontrollable misogyny of the blogosphere. In response to the Kathy Sierra outrage, OReilly told the BBC: "The fact that theres all these really messed-up people on the internet is not a statement about the internet....

Tags: Blogging, Tim O'Reilly, OReilly, blogosphere, Internet

Blog posts 2007-03-29

Clarifying my comments to the BBC

Jane Wakefields follow-up piece for the BBC about Kathy Sierra is now available: Call for blogging code of conduct. Im quoted in the piece and would like to clarify a couple of points and provide you with all the comments I provided her.Im presented in the article as...

Tags: Jane Wakefield, Live Web, blogging, blogger, British Broadcasting Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Blogs and thick skin

Blogs and thick skinOdd thing for a blogger to say"…I've already been tried and found guilty in the none-too-bright court of public opinion, which, if this incident is any indicator, takes anything it reads on the Internet as Gospel. God help us all." Chris LockeAn unbelievable display of dismay. It...

Tags: Blogging, Kathy, Bert, public opinion, blog

Discussion threads 2007-03-27

News to know: Blogger death threats; Intel juices Wi-Fi; GPL draft on deck

Notable headlines: Intel modifies Wi-Fi to add mileage. Sprint unveils WiMax plans.Gallery right: Intels long-range Wi-Fi goes the distance. Kathy Sierra: Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" why I cancelled my ETech presentations. Techmeme discussion.Donna Bogatin: Google, LookSmart power Ask.com advertising. Skrenta vs. King Google, sometimes.Oracle bands...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Blogger, GPL Draft, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Corp., GPL, Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-27

People law trumps the power law

Britt Blaser has a remarkable post on power laws and social networks that lays out where real power lies in the Web. Britt starts with five principles although some might consider that word too strong: The size of your audience confers limited power A networks...

Tags: Long Tail, Britt Blaser, People Law

Blog posts 2007-03-20

We need more programmers

We need more programmersHead Rush AjaxI haven't read Head Rush Ajax, by Brett McLaughlin, but Head First Java, by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates, the first book in this O'Reilly series, was the most engaging, fun and useful introductory programming book I've ever read. If I wanted to learn...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, AJAX, programming, computer, job, software engineering

Discussion threads 2006-09-05

A fresh look at Vista's User Account Control

A fresh look at Vista's User Account ControlExcellent articleLooking for more reading on this topic.Nice irony hereSo, in other words, Windows's history of running with no security provisions has the following consequences:1. Old, and even many current, applications do things in a stupid fashion so that they have to be...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, password, administrative privilege, UAC, security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-05-04

Apple's 'game' plan still falling short

Apple continues to be at the back of the gaming pack. And it seems to be getting worse. Problems with engineering, retail distribution and divisiveness within Apple continue to keep the company at the back of the pack for gaming. And despite words to the contrary, it seems to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Bungie, Halo, Sierra, Games, Personal Technology, Anne Feld, Technology News

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