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By: Webspace/Realspace Divide In Courage | Ian M Rountree

Webspace/Realspace Divide In Courage | Ian M Rountree — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:55:58 +0000

[...] be much more conscious of our digital body language. Much more than guarding our privacy (because anonymity is futile) we need to guard our manners. The perception of possible influence created by online friendships [...]

By: theatrical

theatrical — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:28:41 +0000

I’m so dissapointed to understand that Amada isn’t real.

By: Charles on… anything that comes along » If social media is about building bridges, it’s bound to attract some trolls

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:18:41 +0000

[...] I looked up a little more, and found that Jeff Jarvis had waged a minor skirmish back in July 2006, for God’s sake (but Jeff’s smarter, and had figured out the fake [...]

By: Is Perpetual Negativity Valuable? » blogstring.com

Is Perpetual Negativity Valuable? » blogstring.com — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:53:36 +0000

[...] person?” So I did a few quick google searches and learned that “Amanda Chapel” wasn’t a real person, but instead a character created by 5 people at a PR firm in [...]

By: make fake breasts

make fake breasts — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:56:51 +0000

[...] Russia 1917. How did that work out? I know you believe in what you are saying Jeff.http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/18/fake-breasts/feed/Fake Breasts = Fake/Shallow Personality …, or of Bret Michaels’ hoes on Rock of Love. There’s [...]

By: Epiphany

Epiphany — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:51:26 +0000

She’s really got you guys rattled. Ha ha ha.

By: Valley PR Blog » Blog Archive » Chronicler of ‘naked journal’ damages PR

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:12:22 +0000

[...] year’s Lonely Girl, have tried to massage the blogosphere to see what happens. Jeff Jarvis suggested it could have been a book proposal badly done, or someone slighted by a loss of [...]

By: Strumpette’s underbelly exposed. Now what? « Hoi Polloi: marketing + social media + public relations

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:47:26 +0000

[...] tried to massage the blogosphere and the social media eco-system to see what happens. Jeff Jarvis suggested it could have been a book proposal badly done, or someone slighted by a loss of [...]

By: vaspers the grate

vaspers the grate — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:23:33 +0000

Let’s all force the amanda chapel Libelous Troll Brigade to listen to hours upon hours of Atari Teenage Riot, 64 Revolt, Venom 8888, Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, and Ambassador 21 anarchy music.

By: vaspers the grate

vaspers the grate — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:21:44 +0000

Iconoclast? Nah. Just a garden variety run of the mill troll slug.

By: vaspers the grate

vaspers the grate — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:20:11 +0000

Heh. Eric Rice the zinger slinger makes Vaspers laugh.

By: Eric Rice

Eric Rice — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:10:25 +0000

Also, Al Pacino called. He’s *pissed*.

By: Eric Rice

Eric Rice — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:06:17 +0000

Welp, sounds like another day in the metaverse to me!

Now, shut up and sit on this poseball, Crumpette.

By: vaspers the grate

vaspers the grate — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:30:50 +0000

@ A Man Duh Chapel:

Calling “Of the People, By the People, For the People” something unseemly, populism, whatever.

go to a junior college, cuz yr poor, and take a class on political theory.

You worship hierarchy, i.e. Oligarchy.

By: vaspers the grate

vaspers the grate — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:28:13 +0000

5 guys hiding cowardly behind an Asian woman avatar, called “amanda chapel”. Real good for race relations, you sexist chauvinist patriarchal oligarchy dorks.

By: vaspers the grate

vaspers the grate — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:23:06 +0000

The “amanda chapel” hoax is pathetic Luddites who hate democracy.

When all your team of 5 superlative “writers” can do is insult and name call, using the F word when their argument collapses, well…

don’t feed the trolls.

Usually I ignore these cashless ankle biters. At other times, especially when they gang up on a friend, I take to bashing them directly and hatefully. They can’t take their own medicine.

http://twitter.com/vaspers

By: Amanda Chapel

Amanda Chapel — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:33:44 +0000

Jeff,

Russia 1917. How did that work out?

I know you believe in what you are saying Jeff. However, that doesn’t make the ideology any less destructive or dangerous.

- Amanda

PS If Benjamin Franklin were alive, he surely would have an anonymous blog. Franklin truths invariably arrived under a variety of names.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:32:36 +0000

Antiamanda,
Oh, and as for your harping love of the pitchfork metaphor: You miss the point by a mile. I didn’t gather those people. They gathered themselves. The internet makes it possible for them to do that now. We can find each other. That’s all that happened. I told my tale of woe and other shared theirs. Together, we do have a loud voice, but it the volume of individuals brought together. That is why companies must treat any customer as if she were every customer, for she is. You can wish that away all you want — for whatever strange control issues you have — but it is the way of the world. So you can drop your torch now.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:13:07 +0000

Nonamanda:
I don’t tell them to say anything and they wouldn’t anyway. You just don’t respect their voices and opinions, that’s obvious.
But I agree: You are a liar. And you don’t have the balls (well, you do in a literal sense, I’m sure, just not in a metaphoric sense) to stand up under your own name and say what you think.
You are the bully the hectoring tone.
Don’t YOU get tired of that act? I’m certainly quite tired of it.
Time to get in a new sitcom, fella.

By: Amanda Chapel

Amanda Chapel — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:57:26 +0000

Jeff:

Stifle your little thugs and back off with the ad hominem.

For the record, I am an iconoclast. You’re the would-be demagogue. I don’t have a 6 million person torch-and-pitchfork-bearing mob. I am not directing any one to do anything let alone storm castle Dell. I am not praying on weak populist sentiment. You are.

- Amanda

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:42:31 +0000

I would blame Amanda’s poor showing in rhetoric and repartee on our execrable education system, but some people simply can’t be helped.

Amanda dear, sarcasm is supposed to be cutting. You wit has all the edge of a cheap pillow.

By: Shawn Levasseur

Shawn Levasseur — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:16:03 +0000

Authors of Amanda,

What Jeff is or isn’t, or how literally you’ve taken his metaphor is no longer an issue, so long as it’s you are the one questioning him.

Your a liar. Arguing with you would prove pointless. That’s what my last few posts have been about. Anything more is a waste of breath.

“Get a girlfriend”…

My wife would object.

Cheap insults don’t help your image either.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:56:25 +0000

Unamanda:
Bullshit. The web empowers us and that is what you, would-be demagogue, cannot abide.
Cue Bob Dylan.

By: Amanda Chapel

Amanda Chapel — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:27:59 +0000

Shawn, Alan:

â€œBehind me 6 million with pitchforks and torches ready to storm castle Dell.â€

Listen, Jarvis is a demagogue. You are his people. I don’t want to be a part of your mob world. To be a part of the web populism is apparently base and dehumanizing. Sadly, it is apparently all you’ve got.

- Amanda

PS Shawn… get a girlfriend.

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:47:15 +0000

The last few days Buzzmachine has been puzzling over a question. A question of great importance in the Buzzmachine community. At great expense this commenter has obtained the answer to that question. But instead of reading it himself, he has had it hermetically sealed in a mason jar, and placed on Funk and Wagnal’s doorstep since 3:00 am this morning. Now here, before your eyes, he shall divine the answer to the question.

Answer: 5 mailroom interns with arrested emotional development.

And the question is, “What do the people behind Amanda Chapel aspire to be?”