Big wigs Bloggers brawls; because of Bullshit

There was a gathering of the 400 odd heavyweight Bloggers in Paris. I find it rather amusing that this new online cutting edge niche still have to do the old fashion way of meeting up to have a chat. Of course it is about networking and making new contacts and meeting people face to face cannot be replaced of the new online world. Progress?

Nothing much seem to have happened except for the topic most of the bigwigs of bloggers are blogging about– a speaker and an audience member disagreed and the disagreement spilled out on to the floor. Obviously, every blogger who was there has an opinion and of course the rest of us that wasn’t there also have an opinion.

The speaker, Mena Trott (the president of the company who sponsored this conference & co-founder of the blooging tools), was advocating for a nice and civil blogging by everyone.

The Audience member, Ben Metcalfe, wrote in the IRC that “This is bullshit”

The IRC was displayed on the main screens at the front where the speaker was standing and she saw the comment. Then the fun could begin.

If nothing else, the irony is so beautiful perfect. Mena challage dotBen “Who is dotBen?” and the goes on calling him an asshole and later on uses the word fucking – during a speech of being civil in the interaction between bloggers.

Many others have written what happened and here is some links.

Ben Metcalfe

Mena Trott (her version "the heated Q&A")

Other people

To me – well it doesn’t matter what how humans are communicating; we still always manage to insult each other.

Personally, I rather have a bit of insulting and rudeness for the price of non-censorship. There is no other medium today that has this level of freedom of speech/information.

If Mena want to keep it nice, civil and non-liable, well read the damn broadsheets but then you also get censorship and hidden agendas.