{"id":1071,"date":"2004-04-08T00:21:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T00:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1071.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"the-dark-side-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/04\/08\/the-dark-side-of-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"The dark side of blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there was any <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2004\/03\/22\/you-blow-me\" title=\"note: heavy irony and sarcasm ahead\">doubt<\/a> about the desirability of Movable Type&#8217;s forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typekey.com\/\">TypeKey<\/a> authentication service for blog comments, what&#8217;s been happening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathryncramer.com\/wblog\/\">Kathryn Cramer<\/a> over the last few days should provide ample justification:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/respectfulofotters.blogspot.com\/2004_04_01_respectfulofotters_archive.html#108127482205377604\"><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s been a lot of sanctimonious criticism, to which I will not link, about the inadequacy of Kos&#8217;s apology. Does anyone really think that if he had apologized and withdrawn his statement, all would be forgiven? Ask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathryncramer.com\/wblog\/\">Kathryn Cramer<\/a>. She went too far in her coverage of the Fallujah killings, and posted some unwarranted speculation. In response, she got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathryncramer.com\/wblog\/archives\/000492.html\">vile pornography and death threats<\/a> posted to her comments section. She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathryncramer.com\/wblog\/archives\/000487.html\">took the errant post down and apologized profusely<\/a>, and the hostile comments <em>increased<\/em> &#8211; because, apparently, taking the post down meant that she was trying to hide. She&#8217;s continuing to receive violent threats, some of them directed at her children.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/respectfulofotters.blogspot.com\/2004_04_01_respectfulofotters_archive.html#108127482205377604\">Respectful Of Otters<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/electrolite\/archives\/004987.html#004987\">Electrolite<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Parallels between <a href=\"http:\/\/typekey.com\/\">TypeKey<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/newswww.bbc.net.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3595221.stm\">US-Visit<\/a> programme are duly noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was any <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2004\/03\/22\/you-blow-me\" title=\"note: heavy irony and sarcasm ahead\">doubt<\/a> about the desirability of Movable Type&#8217;s forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typekey.com\/\">TypeKey<\/a> authentication service for blog comments, what&#8217;s been happening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathryncramer.com\/wblog\/\">Kathryn Cramer<\/a> over the last few days should provide ample justification:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}