Mena Trott, president and co-founder of Six Apart, dropped the f-bomb amid other profanities in responding to a question from Ben Metcalfe, an audience member at Les Blogs in Paris.
The setup (and no, this is not a joke): Mena had just concluded a speech on the importance of “civility” in blogging.
Here’s what Mena had to say afterwards. How about an apology instead?
Peter Cooper is way ahead of me on this one.
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Wow. I do not know her, but I would have to say that her “rant” did her no favors and set her “cause” back quite a bit.
Bummer…
My one thought: civility runs both ways.
Jeremy: True, but Mena has more at stake than her critic. She doesn’t need to communicate at that level to make her point.
Give Mena a break here: her latest post is obviously a placeholder to provide context until she gets over the jetlag and provides a full response.