When Floyd "won" the Tour, of course, the situation was quite the opposite. He was quite happy to bask in the glory of the fans. Now he can't take the direct heat from them so he's silencing the crowd from defacing his site. While I was giving Floyd the benefit of the doubt for awhile, no more. The fact that he's not letting us react to his blog post - at least on his site - encourages me to distrust him. By the way, it's not stopping us from linking to the post.
The moral of this story for corporations or anyone blogging in good times and bad is that you can't have it both ways. If you're going to blog, open yourself to comments. And once you do so, don't put that genie back in the bottle. This is especially true when blogging in a crisis like this one where you need all the trust you can get.
Tags: floydlandis, tourdefrance, cycling
