Comments on: unpublished, redux

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:02:13 +0000

AFAIC Boing Boing has been on crack for the past four years, it has become an irrelevant dinosaur Cory’s constantly self publisizing nonsense and lack of content pushed me away years ago.

Violet is made of internets go go faster faster!

By: waraw

waraw — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:25:27 +0000

I get a little tingle when I hear you say my name.

By: violet

violet — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:52:54 +0000

@ Eugene – did you read my comment above? 2nd to last graf applies directly to your personal salvo, in case you missed it.

By: Eugene Wrayburn

Eugene Wrayburn — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:36:02 +0000

My God, you’re still crying about being unpublished at BoingBoing.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:50:12 +0000

Absent a reason- like that your words will subliminally program people to get tattoos and wear glasses against their will – this remains one of the most puzzling things I’ve seen. I’d even settle for a bad reason, it’s the silent deletion that’s creepy. They still feel free to chastise others doing silent deletions, of course.

By: violet

violet — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:09:54 +0000

it’s even more surreal when you’re a blogger like me, whose worked professionally in blogging for over 5 years on a variety of platforms… to suddenly step back, look at whatever build of MT Gawker or Metblogs or whoever is running that I work for… or WP custom on Laughing Squid, or even my own blog…

and realize that “unpublished” isn’t a button. it’s a *status*. it is the status of your post. your post is either “published”, “unpublished” or “scheduled”. a post is “unpublished” because it is *not yet published*.

think about that concept. I do. you can’t publish something and then make it not yet published. the point is, restyling a noun to create a new definition in order to sway perception is the craft of those who spin rhetoric to distract from the truth.

sound familiar?

and you know, I’d actually forgotten that it was the anniversary of the whole bizarre (I mean insane) episode until I saw the elsewhere.org post. it was dead, and BB — likely unwittingly — slapped the paddles on it again, shouting “clear!”

I’m so glad I have nothing to do with them anymore, and that everyone knows it.

By: casualencounters.com/blog

casualencounters.com/blog — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:42:57 +0000

“Unpublish” is such a wonderfully Orwellian term in itself.

By: Michaelk42

Michaelk42 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:43:18 +0000

Hypocrisy at BoingBoing?

I am SHOCKED, just SHOCKED.

I really like Doctorow’s books and agree with a lot of the things he’s written about DRM and copyright and such.

But I still dislike other things about BoingBoing enough that I don’t want to hang out there anymore.