Blogger and UI expert, Kathy Sierra, had to cancel her talk at the Etech conference, because of really really nasty death threats, and threats of sexual assault. You can read about it here.
There are fairly well-known “A-list” bloggers skirting the outskirts of this. And there are certainly quite a few people who know who’s responsible.
They need to go to the police. This is absolutely not acceptable, ever.
Via Chuqui, here are some blogs that talk about Kathy’s sick, vicious, criminal attackers.
- Back in Skinny Jeans
- The Future of Communities
- Valleywag and here
- Accordion Guy
- Shelley
- Epeus’ Epigone
- Creating Passionate Users
- Brady Forrest
- Ross Mayfield
- Seth Godin
- Monkey in my Pants
- 2020 Hindsight
- Backup Brain
- Buzztracker
- Mathew Ingram
- Micro Persuasion
- Ongoing
- Whump.com