Ben Behrouzi Blog » blogosphere http://www.benbehrouzi.org This Is The Personal Blog of Behnam Behrouzi Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:16:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Rumor Mongering, The Mob and Web 2.0’s Ugly Side http://www.benbehrouzi.org/2009/02/27/rumor-mongering-the-mob-and-web-20%e2%80%99s-ugly-side/ http://www.benbehrouzi.org/2009/02/27/rumor-mongering-the-mob-and-web-20%e2%80%99s-ugly-side/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:04:13 +0000 Ben Behrouzi http://benbehrouzi.org/?p=186

Recently there have been big uproars regarding the growing lack of responsiblity of some blogs and the mob attacks that are set to follow their posts.  For some peculiar reason some bloggers seem to believe they can post whatever they want to, running around like cowboys from the wild wild west shooting from the hip damaging companies left and right.  Here are some recent examples of the community backlash regarding  the “journalism” and “responsibility” that lack today.

 

TechCrunch Rumor Control Failure Brings Out the Torches

http://www.blogherald.com/2009/02/24/techcrunch-rumor-control-failure-brings-out-the-torches/

Journalism, or irresponsible rumour-mongering?

http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2009/02/23/journalism-or-irresponsible-rumour-mongering/

LeapFish Gets Second Lashing, Beginning to Think TechCrunch Just Doesn’t Like Us

http://benbehrouzi.org/2009/02/04/leapfish-gets-second-lashing-from-techcrunc/

The Mobosphere, Web 2.0’s Ugly Side and Top 10 Personas

http://www.fasttech.com/2009/02/blogosphere-attacks-top-ten-mobosphere-personas/

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Posterous
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • Twitter
]]> http://www.benbehrouzi.org/2009/02/27/rumor-mongering-the-mob-and-web-20%e2%80%99s-ugly-side/feed/ 0