Anonymity, Safety, and Women on the Internet
One of my favorite bloggers, Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users, is in the middle of a very real, very fucked up situation. I hope that things will be sorted out and that Kathy will go back to posting soon. As removed as I am from this brouhaha, I can’t help feeling those old nagging questions about anonymity and character assassination in the blogosphere. Maybe it’s because I’m a woman…don’t get all wiggy…I’m just saying that we’re raised to be afraid to walk alone or in the dark. We’re raised with a higher awareness of safe vs. unsafe. I don’t know. Whatever. Here’s the info if you’re interested in following along.
- Anne Zelenka’s: Are Women More Likely to Say No to Conference Invitations?
- Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech”
- The Ugly side of the web
- gapingvoid.com: The blog post I hoped I’d never have to write…
- Scoble’s Taking the week off
- Computerworld Interview of Kathy
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Kathy is not only a victim, but she made one out of others…
http://duckdown.blogspot.com/
As this plays out, I’m sure we’ll see if that’s true. And if it is, she appears to be a woman of integrity that would own up to her own knee jerk reaction. However, I’m not sure that I would react any differently if I were in her shoes. Regardless, this whole ordeal has made me extremely uncomfortable with my own little mediocre toe-in online presence and should make us all think about what we say and how it effects others. There are ripple effects to everything we do.
Wow!