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Title fix: she spells her name danah Boyd (lower-case letters)


Thanks for letting me know but I'm not planning to change it - though a moderator is welcome to, if they're reading this.

There's no semantic difference between upper and lower case in a proper name and I suspect more people would complain I'd typoed or got the name wrong if I corrected it to the "right" version. It's like transliterating the French "é" to a US English "e"; technically erroneous, but a better fit for Anglophones.


True, there's no semantic difference between spelling somebody's name correctly and incorrectly. It's "just" a matter of respect.


And titles are typically capitalized.


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:)


WOW, that's radical. Next up, she'll add a "/" to her blog name, and we'll all remember that it isn't 1985 any more.




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