Comments on: Talking the talk http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/30/talking-the-talk/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:40:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Lucien de la Peste http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/30/talking-the-talk/#comment-67184 Lucien de la Peste Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:03:06 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/30/talking-the-talk/#comment-67184 CIF is fine as far as it goes, but if The Grauniad wants to make it truly interactive then posters should be permitted to have their site URLs in the header. CIF is fine as far as it goes, but if The Grauniad wants to make it truly interactive then posters should be permitted to have their site URLs in the header.

]]> By: Glyn http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/30/talking-the-talk/#comment-59821 Glyn Tue, 30 May 2006 23:03:09 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/30/talking-the-talk/#comment-59821 For information, the 'particularly obnoxious email' that columnist Polly Toynbee got was: "You are a loathsome overpaid hypocrite. Nobody would miss you for 5 seconds if you were dead like your despicable *** husband. I should like to see you in a cancer ward screaming with pain and vomiting blood.' (Polly Toynbee's late husband was the influential political journalist Peter Jenkins.) That started its own debate after the writer of it (Ian Birchall) was criticized by others and attempted to defend himself. Go to http://www.oliverkamm.typepad.com/ and key in Birchall for more information. What was interesting was how the rest of the contributors reacted to lay down what standards they thought should be upheld. An instance of the web policing itself. For information, the ‘particularly obnoxious email’ that columnist Polly Toynbee got was: “You are a loathsome overpaid hypocrite. Nobody would miss you for 5 seconds if you were dead like your despicable *** husband. I should like to see you in a cancer ward screaming with pain and vomiting blood.’ (Polly Toynbee’s late husband was the influential political journalist Peter Jenkins.)

That started its own debate after the writer of it (Ian Birchall) was criticized by others and attempted to defend himself. Go to http://www.oliverkamm.typepad.com/ and key in Birchall for more information.

What was interesting was how the rest of the contributors reacted to lay down what standards they thought should be upheld. An instance of the web policing itself.

]]> By: Lucien de la Peste http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/30/talking-the-talk/#comment-59565 Lucien de la Peste Tue, 30 May 2006 17:59:49 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/30/talking-the-talk/#comment-59565 Hay? A fraud! The poor relation! Here's where it's at.... http://hesspartacus.blogspot.com/2006/05/book-burning-with-jayne-austin-allegro.html Hay? A fraud! The poor relation!

Here’s where it’s at….

http://hesspartacus.blogspot.com/2006/05/book-burning-with-jayne-austin-allegro.html

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