Thank you so much for the link. Recommending this to anyone and everyone I know with any interest at all in the web (1.0, 2.0, machine readable – whatever). This gets completely under the skin of interaction in these networks; and gets to the heart of what’s so freakin weird and disingenuous about them – namely, therapy and self-help culture – an excess of positivity, a resistance to giving or taking criticism (let alone offense) – and many of the same attributes that you (correctly) ascribe to the TED attendees who treated Sarah Silverman so shabbily.
Thank you so much for the link. Recommending this to anyone and everyone I know with any interest at all in the web (1.0, 2.0, machine readable – whatever). This gets completely under the skin of interaction in these networks; and gets to the heart of what’s so freakin weird and disingenuous about them – namely, therapy and self-help culture – an excess of positivity, a resistance to giving or taking criticism (let alone offense) – and many of the same attributes that you (correctly) ascribe to the TED attendees who treated Sarah Silverman so shabbily.