You Take the Good, You Take the Bad, You Take Them Both and There You Have...
...a cyber-stalker! Yup. It's pretty sad really. I was on one of my favorite sites-- www.Sojournals.com -- last year, made a comment to a public blog posted on there and, apparantly, a war was launched. This joker-- who goes by several aliases, one of two of them being First Scribe and the other being Djehuti Wa Kamau-- felt so offended that I commented on his public blog as being overly naive and offensive that he felt the need to make a personal attack. Later, still angry, he began to post things on other websites about me, evident when I began to get Google alerts that my name was being used in posts without my consent. A recycled pdf s/he/it has fun posting is a rant about how I'm all of these terms-- a negro, nigger, ho, etc.-- and how he is a better writer than me. He represents the classic example of the cyber personas exemplified on so many websites that define this new type of online personality. This experience has been a very useful example I share when I do workshop...