Posts Tagged with ‘Kathy-Sierra’

The Twitterverse was all aflutter over the past 24 hours or so as Twitter was used as a venue for online harassment. As soon as I started seeing the harassment accusations flying across my screen in Twhirl (my desktop Twitter client of choice) I thought about the blogstorm over Kathy Sierra last year.
I first became aware of the accusations of harassment indirectly - one of my Twitter follows, Mary Wallace, was discussing it with one of her follows. At first [...]

I didn't want to rehash SXSW. But after reading both Kara Swisher and Mike Arrington's take on it, I find myself in strange company, because I agree with both of them, and this apparently puts me in the minority.
Two years ago, I would have sold my soul to attend SXSW. The past two years, it's seemed less and less about tech and more and more about a four-day-long party with the “cool” kids. Is it making up for time spent [...]

Forbes published Tuesday evening its second annual Web Celeb 25 list highlighting the most influential – both positively and negatively, we suspect – names known throughout the digital ether that have had the most impact on the 2007 zeitgeist of buzztastic junk.
Now, before we go any further and share some feelings about the picks as chosen by the business magazine, we feel it imperative to start with a question, short and simple: Why the cold shoulder? Why no Profy [...]

The biggest news of the last few days had been the upheaval caused by the deplorable comments and threats leveled at Kathy Sierra. I expect most of us have commented or at least heard about the events and our Cyndy Aleo-Carreira  wrote a very nice piece on the subject the other day. Everyone is upset for the lady technical blogger, but there seems to be a great gulf of opinion as to what the blogosphere should do about this kind of [...]

It's a bit ironic that I started this series about Women in 2.0 right before the recent news about Kathy Sierra. For anyone who may have missed it, Kathy recently pulled out of a conference talk after feeling threatened by comments made on her blog and images and commentary posted on other blogs.
While I in no way condone the behavior of the individuals responsible, I can't join with the rest of the blogosphere in expressing shock. Nor, to be honest, [...]