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"Trouble at the Koolaid Point" is an important post by Kathy Sierra on the structure of online harassment, especially toward women. Here's an excerpt: I now believe the most dangerous time for a woman with online visibility is the point at which others are seen to be listening, “following”, “liking”, “favoriting”, retweeting. In other words, the point at which her readers have (in the troll’s mind) “drunk the Koolaid”. Apparently, that just can’t be allowed. From the hater’s POV, you...

I’d been impressed and delighted to see people on tilde.club starting to use it to display blog posts, and I wanted to join in. At first, I thought I’d just write the HTML for each post by hand, like I’ve been doing for my home page. Then I even thought I might build my own dead-simple CMS. But I very quickly convinced myself that that way lay madness. But I’d talked to Dave Winer in the past about using his...