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And The Band Played On…

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I’ve popped over to Gawker a few times today.  A quiet resignation is filling Crosstalk.  The comment system is in ruins.  Replies either can’t be seen or don’t get threaded.  Inane and offensive remarks get pushed to the top.  And it looks like someone at Gawker HQ is devoted to gaming the frontpage so the Chris Lee story gets maximum exposure.

I’d say it’s a clusterfuck but that connotes a mishap.  It is now veering towards sabotage.  We are in territory we’ve never been in before – where the new changes can’t be made to jibe with the old format.  From all indications, it appears that the old ship is indeed sinking.

Because Crosstalk cannot be relied upon, please use this post as a central repository for FB profile info.  The lifeboats are being lowered from the davits and we are being scattered to the seas.

Those wishing to find me on FB may find me at matthew dot c dot baron.

It has been a privilege commenting with you.

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Internet Gadfly, Speaker For The Dead, and Used Spaceship Salesman. OMG! Ponies! has been drummed out of pretty much every organization that he has been a part of (except for the Brooklyn Steppers Drum Corps, which instead just shunned him Mennonite-style). When he's not using the Force to sleep with women or selling pipeweed laced with PCP in the Shire, he's wasting time on teh Internets when he's supposed to be working. Likes include long walks on Arrakis, the desert planet that is home of the Spice, hunting moose (and squirrel to a lesser extent), a collecting shiny objects and small bits of string for his nest. Dislikes include New York Yankees fans, oppressive humidity, and genetically-modified megalomaniacs from the late 20th Century put into cryogenic stasis and left to drift into space. You can find him at http://twitter.com/#!/OMG_Ponies and http://www.omg-ponies.com

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