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Stop Cyberbullying Day

In the midst of the blog-storm -- and increasingly, the mainstream media storm -- over cyberbullying and far worse threats made against 'A-List' blogger Kathy Sierra, Andy Carvin has taken the initiative and declared today - Friday 30 March - Stop Cyberbullying Day. While Sierra's situation is horrid and complicated in the same breath, the general principle that any bullying is bad, and cyberbullying seems increase the tendency to be really nasty given supposed anonymity, I think Carvin's idea is a great one, so I am declaring my absolute for Stop Cyberbullying Day - and my ongoing disdain for bullying in any form, be it cyber or otherwise.

I wish I had more time to write a more detailed and thoughtful post, but as I have no time at all, please have a look at my links post for 28 March points to Kathy Sierra's post which announced the ongoing threats she received to the blogosphere, and it also contains a number of the initial responses including those from Robert Scoble (who is not blogging this week, in solidarity), danah boyd (who tells her own story about bullying while decrying the abuse of Kathy Sierra) and Doc Searls (who knows a lot of the people said to be involved in abusing Kathy and seems to be doing a pretty balanced job of trying to get to the bottom of it all).

Then read and use these if you can:

[X] Abc7News: Cyber Threats Against Well-Known Blogger has a brief overview of the threats Kathy Sierra received; it also has an unedited audio interview with Kathy Sierra about those threats - it's well worth listening to.
[X] Andy Carvin's Stop Cyberbullying Ning (a mini social network for discussing these problems, and work on solutions).
[X] Scott McLeod has created a some images you can use to show your support for Stop Cyberbullying Day (the image at the top of this post is one of Scott's).
[X] Read and comment on current blog posts in support of Stop Cyberbullying Day.
[X] And, finally, please make your own blog post or other show of support if you can. Bullying hurts everyone.