The Rocketboom split-up is the talk of the blogosphere. Amanda Congdon and her ex-partner, Andrew Baron, couldn’t reconcile their differences. (Their stories vary, to put it mildly.)
I’m a fan of both of these people, and hope they work things out. If not, the world won’t end.
The citizen media world is growing up. Sometimes there’s pain in the process.
on Jul 7th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Dan, this is emblematic of one of the key problems I’ve found with the Cit-J/Web 2.0/Wedia “movement.” There seems to be an unfounded expectation of utopia that defies all traditions of human interaction.
We had our own, albeit smaller and less acrimonious split in our group, and it was briefly polarizing — even traditional media outlets seemed astounded — shocked! — that people in this space could have differences of opinion or focus.
Cit-J is a wonderful thing. But it is a human thing, created by and maintained by humans and subject to all their foibles and innovations alike.