Bloggy Defensiveness

I'm finding it really hard - if not impossible - not to come across as a defensive a-hole for being publicaly taken to task on erroneous assumptions and lack of research.  I have reactive tendencies; however there's a fine line between being defensive and just being pissed at someone for not doing their homework and getting their stuff wrong (and since its about me, I take it personally).

I'll let you read the blog posting and comments and let you draw your own conclusion: http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/nonprofit-20

Comments

[Jon Stahl]

Ugh. What a drag. Don't let the trolls get you down, my friend.

The world is full of people who are looking for someone to crap on. It sucks to wind up in their crosshairs -- I've been there myself once or twice.

It's like my former colleague Denise Joines used to say, "The Internet doesn't help you be less dysfunctional, it just makes you dysfunction *faster.*"

[Michael Stein]

One of my pet peeves is the hintI sometimes pick up from non-profit staff that because I make a living from selling my wares to non-profits I'm somehow suspect, even when they choose to buy them.

Oh well.