A tidal wave of shock has swelled across the blogosphere at large in response to publicized death threats targeting well-known blogger Kathy Sierra.
Sierra speculates on individuals that may have been responsible or contributed to the offending speech:
The "Bob's Yer Uncle" site was supposedly started by Cluetrain co-author Chris Locke (who, along with Jeaneane Sessum, also authors the Kat Herding Media site) and included most of the same members as meankids.
I don't know which participant actually made the picture. It may have been Joey, or Chris Locke, or perhaps Allen Herrel.
Locke, however, was none too happy that his name was mentioned in the list of suspects. In his response to Kathy’s post, he makes some Matthew Ingram gives his take on the nature of online anonymity:
It’s a little like the spell that comes over people when they get behind the wheel of a car. Because the other drivers can’t see them, and don’t know who they are, people feel free to say — and do — all kinds of terrible things they would never think of doing face-to-face.
Beyond anonymity, however, issues of gender equality are springing up in blogger responses to Sierra’s plight. Popular blogger
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