Kathy Sierra writes:

As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference. But I’m not. I’m at home, with the doors locked, terrified. For the last four weeks, I’ve been getting death threat comments on this blog. But that’s not what pushed me over the edge. What finally did it was some disturbing threats of violence and sex posted on two other blogs… blogs authored and/or owned by a group that includes prominent bloggers. People you’ve probably heard of.

The rest of the post is frankly disturbing.

I’m a little concerned over accuracy of information when names are flung around before a police investigation. And I really do hope there is a full police investigation.

Read Kathy Sierra’s post here.

It will be interesting to see how the blogging community handles this.

Will it become a big story?

Will it be resolved?

This is a test of the journalistic powers of said community. Some of the initial reaction can be found on Technorati. Most are of support, some people are angry.

In my opinion, the best thing we can do now is grow the story.

EDIT (29th March 2007 23:30 GMT):

Follow up post here.

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