Sunday, May 07, 2006

Homeless but blogful

Follow through the links on this one, beyond 3 Quarks Daily to Wandering Scribe, then to the BBC article. Check out the comments for today, especially the link to another blogger who has taken to trashing Wandering Scribe as a con artist.

It's all a curious case of trust, mistrust, the decent and the vile in human beings, and a big dose of serious paranoia in the blogworld.

3 comments:

MT said...

Somehow the social danger that raw text poses ceased to be something anybody talks about online anymore. I don't think the invention of the emoticon quite fixed everything. The perils transcend anything from the pulp and paper era. If only Shakespeare known...

helmut said...

This is a particularly odd case since there appears to be no actual proof of authenticity one way or the other. Yet, a batch of people choose one version or the other. How do they do that?

I suppose I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to Wandering Scribe. The oddest version of the two stories is that of someone who's willing to spend a lot of time trashing WS.

Anonymous said...

That wobbling scruffbag fellow is a true folk hero. I would happily shake his shitty hand