Blog Wars, Flame Wars

[mandy]

The entrepreneur was not one to pass up a marketing opportunity. However, when Jason Calacanis went on a bit too long about his latest product at a technology conference in August -- at least in some eyes -- pioneering software developer Dave Winer had had enough.

Winer, of Berkeley, Calif., jeered Calacanis from the crowd as a shill. Almost immediately, he took his criticism online and onto his blog, casting the issue into the open seas of the Internet.

Calacanis, of Santa Monica, Calif., responded on his own blog. Before long, like a fight scene out of a Jackie Chan film, the scuffle had tumbled onto Twitter.com, a social networking site popular among tech bloggers. It had become a blog war, the kind of exchange that regularly lights up the blogosphere in varying degrees of nastiness. Feuds spill into vast corners of typo-ridden cyberspace as bloggers post and repost passages for paint-by-number demolition and incendiary comments fan the flames...

full article: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/60974.html