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An Embarrassment to Blogging
By Dave Peterson | January 11, 2008
At CES, staffers from the tech blog Gizmodo went around with a TV-B-Gone remote, shutting down vendors’ display screens on the show floor. They did this during presentations as well. The web community knows about this because they “confessed” on their site yesterday. The confession and its accompanying, unconvincing, apology were presented next to video documenting the screen shut downs. Needless to say, this is not the impression bloggers need to make when they go to a major industry event like CES. If the new Internet-based media is going to be taken seriously (and most of the world doesn’t take it seriously yet), its representatives need to behave like responsible adults. That doesn’t have to mean boring or stuffy, it just means treating people the way we would want to be treated and recognizing that actions have consequences. In the last 24 hours a lot of sites have taken down their links to Gizmodo. GadgetyTech did too. I just don’t want to be recommending their site to anyone until they grow up a bit.
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