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Re: BoingBoing: It’s our blog, and our rules

Shelley Powers — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:42:27 -0000

"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

Re: BoingBoing: It’s our blog, and our rules

JoeDuck — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:12:23 -0000

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.

Re: BoingBoing: It’s our blog, and our rules

Earl E Morningwood — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:40:37 -0000

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

Re: BoingBoing: It’s our blog, and our rules

bbluesman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:17:39 -0000

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."

Re: BoingBoing: It’s our blog, and our rules

mathewi — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:08:05 -0000

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

Re: BoingBoing: It’s our blog, and our rules

Eric Rice — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:03:31 -0000

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

Re: BoingBoing: It’s our blog, and our rules

mathewi — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:45:04 -0000

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.

Re: BoingBoing: It’s our blog, and our rules

johnkoetsier — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:07:37 -0000

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