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Can Webloggers Route Around the Negative?

From SXSW, Cam reports:

1:38 PM: The weblogger community will route around hate speech and bigotry online.

I wonder if that's true. We've seen the Google effect when webloggers start linking to something. Someone spouts some bile – can the weblog community resist linking it? That's my idea of routing around it. If we link it, it is soon rising in Google's ranks, the internet equivalent of a PR victory. So yes, maybe we can route around it, but I'm not certain.

My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.