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BoingBoing: It’s our blog, and our rules

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

It’s an old-media adage that if you can find three things that are similar, you have a trend on your hands, and can therefore write a big feature on the rise of the “hand-washing” trend or the “shoe-tying” trend. Well, after the Loren ... Continue reading »

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  • johnkoetsier

    1 year ago

    Very, very, very, unclassy move by the BB people. Unimpressive, considering that they should know better.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    I agree, John. Some of the rhetoric about Orwell and 1984 and so on
    is over the top, but at the same time it's an important issue I think.
    Reading between the lines, it sounds like Xeni decided she didn't
    want to give Violet any link love any more, and removed the posts
    without really thinking about it, and now the entire team is caught up
    in the crapstorm.
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  • Eric Rice

    1 year ago

    And to think, the less they talk, the more talk. I would think that lesson would have been learned by now.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Indeed, Eric -- it seems like we've been learning that one over and
    over for quite awhile now :-)
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  • bbluesman

    1 year ago

    Why do I hear refrains of Cyndi Lauper's,"money changes everything" in my head as I read this post? Not saying I can't appreciate economic pressures or reality. Tough when you stand on that soapbox, it's narrower than the proverbial "painted corner."
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  • Earl E Morningwood

    1 year ago

    I wonder how much traffic both BB and Violet Blue are getting over this tempest in a tea cup. Must be a slow news day with Britney sobering up. :D
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  • JoeDuck

    1 year ago

    BoingBoing isn’t the New York Times

    Thank you Matt for this important reminder. I sure hope I don't confuse these two bastions of journalistic integrity ever again.

    Blogging standards are starting to look like Google's don't be evil standard = what is right is whatever we say is right.
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  • Shelley

    1 year ago

    "Thank you Matt for this important reminder. I sure hope I don't confuse these two bastions of journalistic integrity ever again."

    +1 to the Duck
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