Episode 25: Flamewars in the Blogosphere (oh and Happy Canada Day)

Happy Canada Day to our Canadian listeners. And three days from now, Happy Fourth of July to our American audience. As the show falls on July 1st (Canada Day), I started my first solo show (Geoff was in Canada, of all places) with Meg Fowler’s 10 Things That Are Better About Canada is Better post.

After some laughs, I offered my commentary on flamewars in the blogosphere and you can find this commentary, in its entirety, here.

At the end of the day, I think we can all safely agree that no one is trying to sanitize people and make them non-confrontational. Confrontation is good for the blogosphere and good for dialogue. If everyone agreed, this would be a very boring life.

However, the key to these disagreements is respect. Tobias Bray, one of our callers, pointed out that there is often a disconnect between people on the internet because there exists a cable between us and few take the time to meet and interact with people we disagree with in a face to face manner.

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Episode 25 - MP3