I’m coming in late to comment on the Kathy Sierra situation. The wail of shock and anguish that passed over the internet about it has started to subside, and there’s already been a whole lot (a WHOLE lot) said on the topic.
If you missed it, here’s the story: Kathy Sierra, co-creator of the Head First line of computer books and one of my favourite writers, has been receiving death threats and harassment on her blog and elsewhere on the net. Because of it she cancelled her keynote and tutorials at Etech and was considering giving up blogging altogether. She talked about it on her blog in a post titled Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech” — warning, there are some disturbing words and images here, and there are over 1000 comments so its very long to load.
This, in turn, is a very long post and not what I usually write about on this blog, so see more after the jump. (feed readers and livejournallers, you probably know by now that you get the whole thing and there is no “jump”).
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