i just wanted to say that after a day. i feel my previous comment was probably too strong.

i've got different feelings on violet blue. i think shes got some good content. i appreciate that shes got a drm-free e-book publishing thing going on. "open source sex" always seemed like a horrible misuse of a buzzword and i do believe she has abused the trademark system.

however it is hard for me to believe that somebody would do something SO bad, that they would have all references TO THEIR EXISTENCE silently removed from a blog.

i want to respect the privacy of the bloggers of boingboing, but since i'm in the dark here, you gotta realize that this looks either (a) really evil (which i don't believe,) or (b) really childish and immature.

and thats just the way it looks, whether boingboing has the right to remove things from their own server or not (which they do.)

down the memory hole....

does boingboing reserve the right to silently "unpublish" posts they have made in the past? yeah.

does this make them hypocrites? i feel that it does.

am i happy with boingboing at this point? no.

they did something they reserve the right to do but also lost a lot of credibility in my eyes.

(this might be a little unfair, but anybody else notice the initials of boingboing are BB?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect