I admit that I knew none of the big bloggers or that there was even such a thing as a big blogger until discovering there has been some fuss & trouble involving well known bloggers,death threats and the comment spew following.But then,I am fairly new to the mainstream Blogosphere.
I used to blog only on my Myspace blog which I began sometime in early 2004.Very few people read that blog just as very few read this one(if any at all)
I didn’t get one of these blog spots until late last year…I also didn’t take the time to read or search a blog unless it offerred tutorials on coding and I tended to ignore personal blogs altogether.
From what I was able to piece together after stumbling upon the mess late last night is there used to be a web site called Mean Kids and they were,well, mean.The world of the blogger seems to be rather insular:all these people know each other.They all reference each other’s blogs or work …it’s very clubby.Posts seem to jump right into the matter at hand with no prefacing so one isn’t likely to get it if one isn’t a regular reader who has been following the story.But from what I could glean it seems Mean Kids went a little far targeting some female bloggers on the sensitive side &the site no longer exists.I would like to have been able to read the objectionable content in it’s original context.
Apparently, the “humor” of the site wasn’t fully appreciated as humor.
I am not familiar with one of the women who took it hard but I do wonder what she did to deserve death threats and photoshopped images of nooses and her head or her face covered with a thong.I guess some more research is in order.