Image by Anorak News In December of last year, Anonymous hackers teamed to hack U.S. sites and post angry messages of dissent against U.S. companies that withdrew support of Wikileaks. Last October, when ace photography blogger Scott Bourne posted on… Read More »The Ethics of Flash Mobs
Image by Friar’s Balsam Civility: 1. Formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech. 2. Polite remarks used in formal conversation. Society needs the civility movement online. Recent use of phrases like “blood libel” in speeches or outright threats to… Read More »Civility, Tonality and Manners
Erin Kotecki Vest at NewComm Forum in 2008 With great regret this post discusses recent death threats (warning: graphic language) received on Twitter by Erin Kotecki Vest, known on the social web as the Queen of Spain. In the worst… Read More »Queen of Spain Receives Death Threats on Twitter
Yes, you did read the headline correctly. One of the most annoying flavors of kumbaya in social media circles remains the idea that we should all get along. These voices leave no room for public competition. Meanwhile most of the… Read More »Kick Your Competitor’s Ass
Perhaps you saw the dust-up yesterday. Peter Shankman called out my business partner Kami Huyse for a post about one of his tweets (pictured above). Kami was using it as an example to create a conversation about Internet civility… The… Read More »Reaffirming the Internet Breeds Incivility