Hard Lessons In Blogging

I’m willing to bet (if we’re honest about it anyway) that it’s something that to one degree or another has happened to all of us at one point or another in our blogging careers — we’re trying to get a post out the door, we see a piece of information that we think supports an idea we have, or are trying to promote, and we link it without a close look, and we get bitten.

Todays hard lesson in blogging comes to us via Celestial Junk who linked a blog post by Hal Turner – OUCH!

Some Many Most Almost all of the Every comment I read in response to Turner’s posts is off the hook — really, I’ve never seen quite so many protected and empty blogger profiles collected in one place on the Internet.

- and after reading their comments I can understand why, I wouldn’t want my face attached to them either.

I’ll say right up front that I have no doubt in the world that Celestial Junk had no idea what he was linking to when he wrote his post; the fact is that most (or even any) of us are lacking a big ‘ole room full of research staff in the basement and accidents happen – unfortunately, even after being told in his comments that he’s promoting an anti-Semitic, white nationalist/supremacist, he’s still hanging in there and defending his post.

For what it’s worth my advice, coming from one who has in the past been solidly thumped for linking a less than reputable source, is to fess up and have done with it — whether CJ does, or not, is obviously his business, but his post serves as an object lesson for all of us.