Jun 18 2009
Pseudononymous writing has been part of our culture for as long as the written word existed. Text by “anonymous” existed even in Ancient Greece. A detective in Britain lost a suit wherein he tried to stop a newspaper from revealing his true identity. The blogger wrote about the local police department and won a prestigious [...]
Mar 17 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures With all the discussion lately about the rights and wrongs of online speech and conduct, I recently discovered a 2003 piece by Clay Shirky, appropriately titled “A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy” (someone posted it in reference to the ginormous Brockmann brouhaha). Shirky’s insightful analysis of online communities [...]
Mar 10 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Since January, there has been a discussion of race percolating within the online science fiction community. With all discussions of race, this one got heated. Will Shetterly, a pillar of the science fiction community, part of what I would term the old guard, outed a livejournal member who argued [...]
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