I'd love to comment about the blogger code of conduct, but I'm afraid it's designed in part to shut people like me up. :-)
@@#$@#$%#$% the @#$%@#$%#$ code of @#$%#$% conduct!!!!
The whole point of blogging is that it is free form, take no prisoners, and NOT constrained. Does that mean people should attack people and their ideas? Well, ummm.... if the idea is going to war under false pretense...ummm... YES!!! If the idea is to do covert marketing like PayPerPost... ummm... yeah!!! Blogs are about fighting for what you believe in!! That's the point.
Tim is a laid back dude, and that style works well for him... great. Good for Tim. However, some of us like to mix it up and debate in a bare-fisted style. That type of debate might not be for everyone, but boy does it lead to great debates and good times.
Note: I don't think people should make *personal* attacks or threaten people--but that's illegal already so we don't need a code of conduct for that.
Brad Hill has some more intelligent things to say. (umm... when did Brad get a blog!??!?!)
Blogger code of conduct
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3. You've gotta love the irony of the person who decided to copyright the term Web 2.0 now creating the bloggers code of conduct.
Is there a Doctor O'evil lurking behind the smily facade of the O'Reilly corporation...whatever next, world domination?
I'm buying me a "laser" to fight back...
Posted at 10:37AM on Apr 11th 2007 by Paul Fabretti
4. I'm with you on this. I'm a pretty laid back dude too, but I would NEVER put one of these code of conduct things on my blog. It just rubs me the wrong way. If I act like a jerk on my blog, it'll get back to me. I guess the problem is that people can post and comment anonymously, so they don't have to be responsible for their words, but like you say, there's legal recourse for people who are threatened, and the net, for better or for worse isn't as anonymous as some people think. Hope they nail the perps in the Sierra case.
Posted at 11:37AM on Apr 11th 2007 by jonny goldstein
5. to the hell with Blogger code of conduct
Posted at 11:54AM on Apr 11th 2007 by me
6. I think this has really been beaten to death. With that being said, on twitter this morning, Paul O'Flaherty put out a new doctrine, which I quickly coined "The O'Flaherty Doctrine". I feel this is a better option - you can read about it here - http://rexduffdixon.com/?p=2402
Rex
8. Well, its optional and voluntary,. Some items I will implement, some are just not for me / my blog style. Honestly, we're not out there to personally attack someone, blogs are almost more what you'd see on the editorial page of a newspaper.
As for valid email addresses..... look at what that got us (spam, spam and more spam.... email addresses aren't exactly hard to create anyways and are hardly any protection. As is "real names" - I can post stuff under any name, (not that I do) - what's there to prove who I am. I'm not going to enter in a credit card to prove my identity to post a blog comment, that is for sure.
9. Yeah WTFever man, you suck Calacanis.
:-)
Exercising my Blogger Freedom of Speech since '04...
Posted at 8:42PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Jordan Golson
10. A code of conduct is for a civilized environment, we bloggers aren't civilized. ;)
On a serious note, A Code of conduct is not really necessary, each blogger has his own style of writing things and there are times when we may cross the so called limits. So there shouldn't be any.
Posted at 10:16PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Chrono Cr@cker
11. radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/draft_bloggers_1.html
Tim O Reilly states to a random responder (4.28.07)
I don’t know why you don’t:
Steal a car…
Defecate on the street
Have sex with relatives
Shoot people when they disrespect you.
Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck. What is the relevance of this? Comparing these things to typing bits and bytes into a comments section of a blog - a blog(!) - a place for the creation of fiction, or art or deities, or new planets or gameshows, or fantasy football.The face fungus has migrated to his brain and turned it to sponge.
Is Tim O’Reilly living in a parallel universe?
Once the victim, Kathy Sierra, collected the evidence of a crime against her, she purportedly sent it to the Police, whereupon it should have been subject to secrecy on the grounds that the perpetrator wouldn't get a fair trial if the details were made public. And what happens next? The whole scenario is sent to the New York Times, CNN, the BBC and many other minor news outlets. This seems to prove that there's NO EVIDENCE of any CRIME having been committed against Kathy Sierra or anybody else.
Tim O'Reilly talks flippantly about shootings (hot on the heels of the worst shootings in American history)!!! Tim is being deliberately disrespectful. Is he living in a bubble? Or a prison someplace? My bet is that somebody has hacked (or, more likely, he has given somebody access to) his account at Radar O’Reilly, leaving him free to concentrate on the real work of publishing, promoting his cronies' works and presenting tech speeches.
P T B Anonymous
Posted at 11:07AM on Apr 30th 2007 by Proud to be Anonymous
12. Re: Call for Code of Conduct by Tim O’Reilly
The Kathy Sierra business needs closer examination because I think something might be getting overlooked. Kathy Sierra published the IP number on her website
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/as_i_type_this_.html
of the alleged perpetrator of these threats that turned out to be someone using an ISP in Madrid, Spain.
Once the victim, Kathy Sierra, collected the evidence of a crime against her, she purportedly sent it to the Police, whereupon it should have been subject to secrecy on the grounds that the perpetrator wouldn't get a fair trial if the details were made public. And what happens next? The whole scenario is sent to the New York Times, CNN, the BBC and many other minor news outlets. This seems to prove that there's NO EVIDENCE of any CRIME having been committed against Kathy Sierra or anybody else.
BY PUBLISHING the IP number of the perpetrator Kathy Sierra has probably inadvertently stalled any further investigations into the crime. I don’t suppose she has even been given a crime number and I suspect the Law Enforcement Officers concerned pointed out that there is a delete button on her computer.
BY PUBLISHING THE IP number of the alleged perpetrator of a crime, she has committed a crime herself.
wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address (http)
IP address legality in Europe
It is important that this significant difference in legal status be understood, because Websites that provide for third-party interception of IP addressing information and Traffic Data, without website visitor consent, are committing a criminal offence in the UK by virtue of the regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, where through the requirements of European Council Decision 2005/222/JHA, such Website owners face serious sanctions, including the winding up of their businesses, being debarred from running a business and more than 2 years imprisonment.
P T B Anonymous
Posted at 12:04PM on May 1st 2007 by Proud to be Anonymous
1. Couldn't agree more.
Posted at 9:46PM on Apr 10th 2007 by Duncan