SILENCE = DEATH
Many dear friends have chosen not to blog this week, striking in protest against Linden Lab's foolish and overreaching brand-protection policies. I've given quite a bit of thought to the issue over the past few days: it would be easy enough to join them by default: I don't have the time to blog this week anyway. Friendship and laziness could
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I actually DO think that getting you and others to write - even if it's on tactics, and criticizing ours, should be counted as a success, because it's attention. As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
And while I love the idea of a "day of education," I don't think it would have had the effect that you do, and certainly not fifty posts. Gwyn, myself, and several others HAVE been doing educational posts for weeks now - a "day" for it would be nothing more than the same old, same old. Let's face it, we blabber away all the time on our blogs, one more post about the TM policy when so many have been written already will do very little except pile on. There's a reason "dog bites man" is not news, and "man bites dog" is. Bloggers blogging is the status quo, while silence is a change that will garner attention.
Soph, you know I adore you. You also know I've been reading your blog forever, I rarely comment on anything, and when I do I never disagree with you out loud. So, I hope you realize why I felt the need to do it now. Normally I would have let things slide but for the "complicity in oppression" and "moral failing" language in your original post - two things I don't feel that I, or any of the others participating in the strike, deserve to be tagged with.
Now, I've said my piece. Let's get back to playing Scrabulous, shall we?
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And, yes, drubbing Hamlet sounds like a *much* better way to pass the time! :)
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