I cannot imagine what Violet Blue did to justify this sort of behavior on Boing Boing’s part. I’ve been trying to think of a situation in which I would do what they have done. Did Ms. Blue espouse genocide? Did she try to put a shiv in Doctorow’s throat at a party? Did she involve herself in sexual shenanigans with some Boing Boing staffer? Did they catch her serially killing people, or selling crack to five year olds?

The weblog has evolved to the point where, today, it’s possibly the most effective way of transmitting material that any of us could have imagined. Look at Tumblr. It’s the easiest thing in the world for writers to use — and also artists, photographers, videographers, spoken-word artists, musicians and a dozen other things. Imagine a jewellery maker, a laptop musician, a performance artist, a cartoonist and a short-story writer getting together on a single Tumblr to make themselves an internet channel. The tools are all there, baked right into the site for free. Not groupblogging so much as groupcasting

“I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child,” he said.