A particularly worrying post over on Techcrunch today, where Michael Arrington talks about crazy stalking fans, and his decision to take a month off from blogging while he decides his priorities. It's a shame, because Techcrunch is one of my daily reads, and his articles are always wortth checking out. But it's also particularly scary that people out there get so crazy some times. We wish him the best.
Maybe we should all pause a second next time we all laugh at hearing McCain say how much he hates "the bloggers".
And it's not just Arrington. Even David Attenborough gets hate mail.
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Scaramouch, I would never do that to you. I could never spit on you or threaten you. You and I have been through too much together. We are like brothers. I understand you and you understand me. You mean more to me than any of my friends or family and I know that I mean just as much to you. We should be together. I could never hurt you. I could never hate you. I read everything you write and save it on a special file on my computer at work. Then I copy it onto a flash drive and take it to my computer at home and copy it into a special file. I read and reread everything that you ever write and do it over and over again. We should be together because we understand each other. I have blown up a picture of you and have it hanging on my wall. Sometimes I talk to it like you were there. Sometimes I make it talk back to me with a silly British accent and you give me advise. Sometimes I wake up and look at it and think you are really there watching me. I never get angry at you though I just think about how great it would be if you were there with me. I draw a lot of pictures of you and I doing things together like hunting and fishing and camping. My favorite picture is one where you and I are standing over a dead deer and you are giving me five and saying: "Dave that was a bloody long shot you made you wanker!" and I am just smiling prouly over that deer. I have another picture that I drew with me holding up a big fish with one hand and the other you are giving me five and saying: "Dave thats a bloody big fish you shot you wanker!" and I am just smiling. Somtimes I take the pictures that I drew and make a hundred copies of them and stick them under the windshield wipers of peoples cars in the grocery store parking lot just so people know that we are best friends. I know we should be together. One time I got arrested for drunken disorderly and when they asked my name all I would say is Scaramouch. Finally I said Dave but they knew we had a connection. You are like the brother that I never had. I bet your mom would let me call her mom too. We should go on a trip together to England. I have been practicing my English accent and I think we could tell everyone in England that we are brothers. We really should be together.
Love your best friend in the whole world.
Dave
Those Attenborough comments are freaking awesome in the article link.
Those Attenborough comments are freaking awesome in the article link.
I LOVE BLOGGING.
I love ALL bloggers like they are family.
WE ARE A COMMUNITY.
I love blogging SO MUCH. If the WHOLE blogging community had a collective head, I would CRUSH IT WITH MY HANDS.
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