I'm not sure which disgusts me more, reading about the death threats against Kathy Sierra or this post about the news of Tony Snow's cancer over at the Huffington Post. Let's take them one at a time, shall we?
For those of you who don't know, Kathy Sierra's Creating Passionate Users site is hand's down one of the best on the web. Her entire focus is on how we - and by extension the companies we work for - can make ourselves and our products better. Her own area of expertise is programming (she used to work for Sun) but her ideas can be applied to just about any area of marketing and her enthusiasm is infectious. I can't tell you how many times I've gone looking for a bit of inspiration and found just the ticket at her site. For her to be targeted in this manner is appalling.
As for Charles Karel Bouley, it's hard to know where to start. How in the world can anyone say that working for President Bush or Fox News is a reason for getting cancer and in the next breath say that Eizabeth Edward's cancer is just "bad things happen to good people"? It would make just as much sense if I said that her cancer came about because of her belief in husband's vision of "Two America's". Which is to say, it makes no sense at all.
Granted, the web makes it easy to do such things. I doubt seriously if Mr. Bouley would say anything like that in Tony Snow's presence, just as I don't think the anonymous hate-mongers would go after Kathy Sierra if they felt there was any possibility they would be held accountable.
People who anonymously threaten others deserve their own special roasting corner in Hell. And Charles Bouley deserves some brutal honesty of his own.
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