Media feeding frenzy...a quick follow-up

A very quick follow-up to yesterdays post...

Yep...digg (or would that be Diggers?) have Dugg articles about danah boyd's observations -- the fact that the one story has 1735 diggs is interesting...the comments that follow it from the diggers are even more interesting.

What I like even better? Today's post from danah on her blog:

June 27, 2007
Dear esteemed members of the press,
Dear esteemed members of the press, I am in the field collecting data and then will be attending a conference. I am not able to respond right now. Do not call my house phone. Do not pester my department. And do *NOT* hound my subletter. All press inquiries should be sent to press [at] danah.org. When I can, I respond. When I can't, I don't. Do not use other email addresses - I check the press one from my phone and answer them in order when I have spare cycles. Other requests are typically ignored. The BBC coverage of my blog essay is hugely problematic. If you want to discuss what I've written, please read the essay itself. This is not a formal report. This is a blog essay based on observations from the field. And this is not a 6-month study; it is a 4-year study with a tide shift that I've noticed in the last 6 months. Again, read the essay. At some point, I will turn this into a formal article, but this is not that. Cover it as you see fit, but do not call it a report.

Thank you, THE MANAGEMENT

You go girl! Fancy that. Asking the media to READ something before they report on it. But ... there is no guarantee that they will full comprehend what they are reading and there in lies the challenge in posting "information" that is somewhat controversial on the web in an open forum.

What a great story this will be for my classes in the fall!