Pointing out stories you may have missed. Prominent blogger Kathy Sierra has called on fellow bloggers to combat online abuse. It follows a series of death threats which she says have forced her to suspend her blog and cancel a public appearance at the ETech conference in San Diego on Monday.Sierra described on her blog, Creating Passionate Users, how she had faced a campaign of threats, including a post that featured a picture of her next to a noose. The police are investigating, but one core issue is how women bloggers are treated online.
Sierra began receiving death threats four weeks ago. Since going public on the issue, she has been overwhelmed by the support she has received. ``I agonised about making this post but I hoped it would start a dialogue," she told BBC.com. ``I never thought it would become so big or be this positive.''
She believes the fact that she is a woman is partly responsible for what she says is a campaign against her. ``I am afraid to leave my yard, I will never feel the same. I will never be the same," she said on her blog.
News source: BBC.com.
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