Comments on: Sock Puppet Theater http://www.blogpi.net/sock-puppet-theater Putting the blogosphere under a magnifying glass Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:10:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Dave http://www.blogpi.net/sock-puppet-theater#comment-57700 Dave Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:29:52 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/sock-puppet-theater#comment-57700 <p>Racing cars, Karate, and rocking sock puppets. What could be better? Enjoy!</p> <p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2pgqfasrxM</p> Racing cars, Karate, and rocking sock puppets. What could be better? Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2pgqfasrxM

]]> By: A Flock of Siegels, or, Don’t Cross The Streams at Blog P.I. (beta) http://www.blogpi.net/sock-puppet-theater#comment-243 A Flock of Siegels, or, Don’t Cross The Streams at Blog P.I. (beta) Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:23:10 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/sock-puppet-theater#comment-243 <p>[...] As Blog P.I. has noted before, it’s been a banner year for sock puppets already — Michael “Mikekoshi” Hitzlik, Glenn “Ellison” Greenwald, even Jason “George Gooding” Leopold. As in the case of Greenwald, hubris played a big factor in the un-socking. For both writers, the temptation to praise oneself in a manner even one’s biggest fans are unlikely to do was insurmountable; this hubris drives the similar impulse to pour self-generated adulation into one’s own Wikipedia entry. Had Siegel (or his rumored accomplice) just toned it down, Sprezzatura might still be antagonizing Siegel’s antagonists. And whereas the semi-retired Greenwald is unfireable, Siegel like Hitzlik before him is (or was) eminently vulnerable. [...]</p> [...] As Blog P.I. has noted before, it’s been a banner year for sock puppets already — Michael “Mikekoshi” Hitzlik, Glenn “Ellison” Greenwald, even Jason “George Gooding” Leopold. As in the case of Greenwald, hubris played a big factor in the un-socking. For both writers, the temptation to praise oneself in a manner even one’s biggest fans are unlikely to do was insurmountable; this hubris drives the similar impulse to pour self-generated adulation into one’s own Wikipedia entry. Had Siegel (or his rumored accomplice) just toned it down, Sprezzatura might still be antagonizing Siegel’s antagonists. And whereas the semi-retired Greenwald is unfireable, Siegel like Hitzlik before him is (or was) eminently vulnerable. [...]

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