The Blogosphere

Wired by Tony Long | Apr. 12, 2007 (Opinion)
Where a Tawdry Culture Goes to Die

Civility? They're proposing a code of conduct for the blogosphere to ensure civility online?

Who's kidding who here?

Before you can expect a bunch of utterly spoiled, self-indulgent bloggers (i.e. the kind who indulge in their online mudslinging) to practice civility, you might try restoring a bit of it to what passes for civilization these days.

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Posted by: Posted by Bob McInnis - Apr 12, 2007 - 4:35 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Bob McInnis (review), Kaizar Campwala (review), Fabrice Florin (review)
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Apr 12, 2007 - 7:45 AM PDT
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 by Fabrice Florin - Apr. 12, 2007

The author makes some valid points in this short opinion piece. But his provocative tone does not encourage a civil discussion - his challenge to "blogger boys" is likely to add fuel to the fire, rather than bring parties together to find a reasonable solution to this problem. We need less of the former, and more of the latter. Also check O'Reilly's response to these types of comments: http://beta.newstrust.net/.f0956c8

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 by Kaizar Campwala - Apr. 12, 2007

I'm guessing this piece is meant to be satirical. If so, it's doesn't work all that well. If not, it's a very poor critique of O'Reilly's blogger's code of conduct.

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 by Bob McInnis - Apr. 12, 2007

Great defense of the companions; rights and responsibilities.

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