Posts Tagged with ‘debate’

We here at Profy first profiled Gather.com - a social networking site geared to provide a meeting place of sorts (hence the title) for above-average intellectual discussion (as opposed to the mostly idiocratic MySpace and so forth) - in November of 2006. The following February we delved in a bit deeper, spotlighting the site’s establishment of Essentials, a selection of channels comprised of expert sources of information for books, music, health, money, and so on.
And in September, we [...]

There was a time when politicians and blogs did not go together. The first didn’t want to stoop down to the level of the second, where nobodies (bloggers) could hit at somebodies (politicians) and where the rules were very simple: anything goes. Talking points were the way to go. Staged town hall-style meet-and-greets with audiences firmly vetted for unruly truth seekers. That’s where the candidates for public office felt they belonged.
Today, things are a bit different. Blogs are just as [...]

Waxing as profoundly as a herd of Greek philosophers, the blogosphere is attempting to right itself in the aftermath of the Kathy Sierra incident. Everyone from Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales to the least commenter at Digg is having their say about conduct on the Web. The evident “shiver” running up the spines of some bloggers at the utterance of words like code and conduct is indicative of a kind of polarity that exists. Let's assume that there are obviously several [...]