links for 2007-03-28

• Death Threats in the Blogosphere at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)

  In her latest post, Kathy Sierra reports that she has been receiving increasingly disturbing threats (death threats, and of sexual nature), to the point that she has cancelled her appearance at ETech and has locked herself up at home.

  (tags: deaththreats death threats privacy security transparency fos freedom online socialnetworking society)

• Taking the week off « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger

  I’m physically ill after reading what happened to Kathy Sierra. Maryam and several others here at PodTech asked me about it and are concerned since the same sites that are attacking Kathy also mentioned me and Maryam. Maryam is really freaked out about

  (tags: sierra culture deaththreats death threats socialnetworking scoble transparency privacy CCW)

• Seth’s Blog: Misogyny and anonymity

  Anonymity hasn’t made the web a better place. Instead, it has allowed some of the worst ideas ever to get published. (This link is unsettling). All we can do is root for Kathy and hope that the bully behind this is caught. It makes me angry.

  (tags: threats death deaththreats socialnetworking society transparency anonymous privacy security sethgodin kathysierra)

• Kathy Sierra Getting Death Threats, Internet Reaches New Low » TinyScreenfuls.com

  Go read Kathy Sierra’s latest post at Creating Passionate Users, then come back. It’s important. That post made me feel sick to my stomach. It makes me both sad and angry when people use the shield of anonymity on the internet to do crap like make dea

  (tags: Kathy Sierra death threats transparency socialnetworking society privacy security)

• death and rape threats are criminal

  Kathy Sierra has cancelled her appearance at eTech because of death threats she has received online. I am shocked to see this happen, and I am particularly shocked because some of the people who brought me to blogging in the first place are connected. I h

  (tags: blogs Kathy Sierra death threats deaththreats privacy security transparency socialnetworking society)

• Common Craft - Social Design for the Web: The Incident with Kathy Sierra

  Kathy Sierra, from what I know of her, is an exceedingly smart and good person who has been targeted by a group of bloggers who recently posted death threats (including images) that has succeeded in scaring the wits out of her. She cancelled all her futur

  (tags: Kathy Siera kathysierra social socialnetworking society transparency security privacy hatespeech)

• Wired 15.04: The See-Through CEO

  Pretend for a second that you’re a CEO. Would you reveal your deepest, darkest secrets online? Would you confess that you’re an indecisive weakling, that your colleagues are inept, that you’re not really sure if you can meet payroll? Sounds crazy, right?

  (tags: blogging business CEO communication socialnetworking transparency management personal brand branding)

• Ross Mayfield’s Weblog: An impassioned scandal that could really change us, for the better?

  This is a real test of the blogosphere. Our culture and openness. We don’t know all the facts, but there is enough to be disgusted. We do know that part of this involves real core and dedicated bloggers. We do know that this involves trolls, there will al

  (tags: blog blogging kathysierra Kathy sierra social society socialnetworking transparency security privacy anonymous)