It's Stop Cyberbullying Day

Stop Cyberbullying Day, as declared by Andy Carvin, is today. Like most people I wish there were more I could do than write a blog post and mention it in the workshop I'm teaching this afternoon. I was at the Reference Desk when I read Kathy Sierra's post, quickly -- here's a hint: it's way passed the line into cyberbullying if the description of what's happening to a person is not work appropriate.

Like many librarians, I read Kathy Sierra's posts frequently, every time a librarian blogger mentions one that is particularly relevant to libraries. Creating Passionate Users is a great resource for everyone who provides service. And I'm completely jealous of her ability to make a point in a bright, colorful graphic.

Like many bloggers, I am so horrorified at what happened to Kathy Sierra, I really don't know what to say. About the only articulate thing I could mutter on the topic for several days was "WHY?" I appreciated David Weinberger's post on Joho the Blog, The Knot in My Stomach is CNN. It expressed what I might want to say if I could find the words as well as all the things that I would then wish I had said--an eloquence of ineloquence that probably captures the response I want to make as well as anything. I don't know what to say because talking about something that inappropriate is hard but it happened, so we have to do the best we can.

What I'm better at is being supportive. So here's my blog post, labeled stopcyberbullying. If you have a blog, please write one as well so that Kathy Sierra can know for sure that many, many people are supporting her at this difficult time.

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