Calling for a Cease Fire at Blogosphere High

Wired News story on the Best Blogfights of 2006 is honestly an embarrassment to bloggers everywhere. John Koetsler was right to equate the blogosphere with high school.

The world is watching us. In 2007 our challenge, as bloggers, is to up our game. Let's skip the name calling and the back and forth cat-fighting. We should debate issues, of course. But the more that we treat each other like children, the more it brings down the entire credibility of the power of the digital citizen and his/her ability to shape online perceptions.

Let's take a page from our older, wiser siblings in the professional media and call a permanent cease fire.  Yes, the New York Post and Daily News trade barbs from time to time, but the professional media bring their A-game and it's time we take a page from their playbook.