http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/12/be_civil_asshol.php "The reason the battles are so bitter," someone once said about academia, "is because the stakes are so low." It was hard not to be reminded of that famous quote when reading about Currygate and the attendant controversy over who played what role in the invention of podcasting. At least, I thought, this brouhaha will mark the pinnacle of Web 2.0 farce: Aging MTV star anonymously rewrites Wikipedia podcast entry to give himself more prominence... en-us http://www.searchengineblog.com/2005/12/blog-list-fails-to-grasp-irony.html Check out the latest farce in the blogsphere. Fluffy ducks doesn't go down well with Euro audience. http://bustardblog.typepad.com/bustardblog/2005/12/mena_trott_pres.html Mena Trott, President of Six-Apart, a division of which is Typepad, lost it when speaking at the Les Blogs conference in Paris this week. (Hat Tip to Rough Type) Her goal was to discuss the increasing need for civility, accountability http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/09.html#speakingOfOffensiveThings Overlooked in the press about Adam Curry modifying the Podcasting page on Wikipedia, anonymously, to improve his image, is that it actually was a company turning a Wikipedia page into an ad for itself. The kind of ad you have to pay for if you want it ... http://twoscenarios.typepad.com/maneuver_marketing_commun/2005/12/in_a_fit_of_civ.html Any semi-regular reader of this blog understands my lack of patience for anything politically correct or containing the word sensitivity, http://reservoirpartners.typepad.com/reservoir_partners_enterp/2005/12/why_cant_we_all.html Because, putting aside all of the utopian talk about Web 2.0 and particularly Wikipedia, people have agendas.Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Be civil, asshole. http://meneame.net/story.php?id=68 Nicholas Carr es un escéptico de la blogocosa. Ahora comenta sobre una anécdota en LesBlogs: sé educado, gilipollas. Como es tradicional en él, muy incisivo, deberían traducirse algunos de sus apuntes.