Shoes, spitballs and spam

Mike Arrington at TechCrunch was spat on today in Germany. He also discloses he has received death threats in the past year. In many ways, worse than the shoe attack on Bush - he had time to duck, and he has plenty of Secret Service to protect him from more serious threats.

What is the world coming to?

I sure am glad the worst I have received is spam (excluding the names I get called in negotiations). At a conference, I received a blog comment in the evening saying something to the effect of "I saw you at the conference. You have no reason to be that aloof. And your blog sucks and ...and ...".

I racked my brains to see if I had ignored anyone that day at the conference. I could not but sent this person an email (to the address he logged on the comment) apologizing and asking to meet him the next day. The email bounced - was not a real one. I even called the company in his URL, and they did not have any one with  his name in their voice mail directory. 

I did try - but figure this person did not really want a conversation. He just wanted to verbally spit on me and do it behind his digital mask.

Takes all kinds.

Disagree with Mike - that's why he allows blog comments. Write your own blog and beat him up. But don't do stupid things that make him think about quitting his blog.