On June 27, blogger Anil Dash (who works for Six Apart, makers of Movable Type blogging software), wrote a thoughtful discourse on how weblogs can succumb to the mob mentality – to the detriment of many organizations, individuals, and issues. See Learning from Experience.
Dash writes, “I thought about this looking at the (totally justified) hard time that Cory [Doctorow] gave Fast Company over their dumb linking policy. If you look at the conversation, people act as if some lawyer gleefully rubbed his hands together and said, ‘How do we get this periodical to be an isolated island of unlinked misery on the web?’ I’m guessing that’s not the case.”
He then goes on to outline a far more constructive plan on how weblogs can leverage their individual and collective strength to effect positive change. Well worth reading! (And here, via Blogdex, is the blogosphere conversation about Dash’s proposal.)
