With this over-the-top teaser on the Nov. 14, 2005 cover of the magazine, They [My edit: A tiny number of blogs] destroy brands and wreck lives. Is there any way to fight back? the folks at Forbes have stirred up a whole lot of predictable blacklash from the blogosphere.

Yes, of course there are examples (upsetting, frightening ones) of blogs gone bad and of bad people (i.e. lowlifes) who blog. Nothing new here…

I'm kidding, of course. But the thought did occur to me upon reading this morning's coverage of the indictment of White House top aide Scooter Libby (Vice President Cheney's chief of staff). Quoted in the Washington Post is David King of Harvard's Institute of Politics:

"Bush (ought to) at least give the appearance of being open to criticism and willing to change," especially in light of the fact that "there is a larger question in this administration of whether there is willingness to hear dissent."

Hmm... sounds familiar, doesn't it? Isn't that pretty much the point of a corporate blog: to…

Update (2 days later): SixApart's CEO Barak Berkowitz provides more details. He posted his Message from the CEO to the TypePad blog and also sent it in an HTML email to customers:

Dear Debbie,  

As you might know, some of our users have been experiencing slow performance with the TypePad service over the past few weeks...

Pretty nice. To back up a minute... we (meaning a bunch of Business Blog Consulting contributors) are taking partial responsibility for these blogged responses from SixApart. We started complaining vociferously on Wednesday Oct. 26, 2005 (first

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