This issue captured the attention of the political blogosphere recently, and it’s probably worth noting that the quality of the discussion in that ’sphere was profoundly better than the discussion in this one. The tech ’sphere’…

Andrea: I’ve been meaning to say something about this upset blogger woman I read about who was (apparently) reduced to a house-bound wreck because some asshole spewed garbage about her on an internet forum. The reaction of the woman,…

My 16-yr old daughter burst into tears. “It can’t be! It can’t be that way!” she cried. I had just finished explaining to her the Schroedinger’s Cat paradox of Quantum Mechanics, that until we open the box, the cat is neither dead nor alive, but in…

My 16-yr old daughter burst into tears. “It can’t be! It can’t be that way!” she cried. I had just finished explaining to her the Schroedinger’s Cat paradox of Quantum Mechanics, that until we open the box, the cat is neither dead nor alive, but in…

This is a follow-up to an earlier post entitled “Bloggers respond to threats.” Please read that post first in order to make sense of the following.

Both Kathy Sierra and Robert Scoble have yet to make any new posts.

However, Ms Sierra closed off comment

Kathy is not only a victim, but she made one out of others…

Pot, meet kettle. Will Kurtz now write a screed about the vile commenters at the Washington Post? Sloppy of Me: Christopher Fotos did what I hadn’t — read Kurtz’ original piece. Which is also excerpted at LGF. Kurtz does acknowlege…

My 16-yr old daughter burst into tears. “It can’t be! It can’t be that way!” she cried. I had just finished explaining to her the Schroedinger’s Cat paradox of Quantum Mechanics, that until we open the box, the cat is neither dead nor alive, but in…

Brian Leiter is one of the biggest thugs on the Internet. He routinely calls people with whom he disagrees (including the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court) names. He has threatened people. He has used his taxpa…

Allahpundit spots the hot new Internet trend. Update: Related thoughts here….

The Kathy Sierra sitation has now been in full meltdown in the blogosphere for two days. I’ve been talking with Doc Searls a bit about why I’m so bothered by this situation. I know that the people Kathy named did…

And then yesterday, I found another story at CNet. Kathy Sierra, a tech writer and blogger who’s well known in the tech community, has been the recipient of some really nasty threats of violence and slurs. Why a tech blogger who writes helpful articles…

This Saturday at the Web2.0 meeting in The Balie I said “Privacy is overrated” and got some good laughs from the audience.
Just now I read something that takes the fun out of that remark.
Kathy Sierra received death threats on her blog and …

I haven’t seen Kathy in a month or so and she’s kind of busy right now. So to do what I can to be supportive and comforting, here’s a big public cyberspace hug to try to visually offset the nasty