RIP M.E.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. ....I guess.
One of my favorite blogs (Creating Passionate Users) shut down a little more than a year ago because of death threats from a small handful of angry readers. I loved her ideas and passion. Each new post was a new insight into how people work and think. 
And the pictures... I loved her graphics.
Maybe this final graphic explains what was so great about CPU, and a few others too. Mediocre things, like my blog produce neither love nor hate--there is no passion. But now I'll say so long to another of my favorite blogs because of threats. I suppose Elrod hasn't had too many death threats, but a few too many assassin-like unemployment threats appear to have sucked the air out of yet another of my favorite web writers. I'll miss your thoughts. They are different than mine, but I like the opportunity to challenge what I think--or thought.
I guess... here's a toast to public mediocrity. And a dirge for something special, loud, public, and different that will now be something quiet, hidden, private, and gone.
4 comments:
Apparently the way to shut a blog down is threaten the author and/or their boss.
Elrod shut his blog down too.
Sorry, Josh, totally unrelated to your post but I'm looking for info on Ultimate Frisbee leagues in the Charleston area. Did a search and saw a blog from you on the subject from 2006. Please email me at twinjen@gmail.com. Thanks.
Yeah, I'm sad to see Elrod's blog go. That was more or less the impetus behind this post.
I really enjoy Elrod's blog, and was sad to see it go.
I didn't agree with a lot of what he said, and I didn't think he always dealt well with dissenting viewpoints (who does?), but he made me think, and he was funny.
On a somewhat ironic side note, now that he's gone private, I think he needs to change the name.
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