Manners people!
There’s no use denying it- online discourse can get pretty ugly. Maybe it’s the relative safety of flinging insults from our computer desktops that lead so many online discussions down dark alleways of ire and verbal abuse.
After one recent brouhaha - the kathy sierra affair - a few digerati took notice and decided to act to improve civility on the Internet. Web 2.0 guru Tim O’Reilly and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales are crusading for a Blogger Code of Conduct - a set of rules that bloggers can voluntarily follow and use to implicitly guide the behavior of guests to their sites.
I write about the effort, and its chances for success, here, in Monday’s paper.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:45 am
You’re a reporter and a doodler. Your captions are funny.
Call for Manners is a huge story. Definitely fit to print in the New York Times. More than a few digerati have taken notice.