Crablaw has announced a blogswarm. They’ll be hosting Take Back the Blog day on Saturday, April 28th, “in support of the rights of women to participate fully in all aspects of our society, including specifically online in the world of blogging but indeed everywhere and at all times, day and night, without fear of harassment, [...]

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…Dude, this post is messed up. I agree with you that the proposed blogger code of conduct is asinine, but it certainly doesn’t follow that Kathy Sierra (or any other women who are threatened with death, rape, or frivolous lawsuit, ahem) are making shit up or overreacting or (as you kind of imply) being [...]

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Andy Carvin, founder of the Digital Divide Network, has been moved by the recent online harassment of Kathy Sierra, to designate this Friday, Stop Cyberbullying Day:
For starters, we need this to be a bigger conversation. That’s why I decided to unilaterally declare this Friday as Stop Cyberbullying Day. What does it mean? I leave that [...]

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Noted technology expert, author and blogger Kathy Sierra cancelled her presentation at ETech, because of a series of escalating online harassment, death threats and sexual attacks:
As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference. But I’m not. I’m at home, with the doors locked, terrified. [...]

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Nearly one in four teens communicated hourly with his or her partner by cell phone or text messaging between midnight and 5 a.m., according to a survey conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, a research organization specializing in research on teens and young adults.
Shaina Weisbrot, now a sophomore at Rutgers University, says as a teenager she [...]

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