Fire Island Blog

Following some discussion over at Mashable, we’ve set up a petition to encourage MySpace to consider a “Certified Safe Widget Developer” program. It may be a long-shot (I once waited 22 days for them to respond to a support request), but surely we have to try?

Please forward it to everyone in the community that you know and encourage them to sign. If we can rally enough people behind this we may get MySpace to make some concessions to a really important sub-economy that has emerged out of all this Web 2.0 malarkey.

Also, is anyone interested in collaborating on building a community site to raise awareness about the issue and to aggregate discussion and action towards overcoming it? After all, there’s strength in numbers…

UPDATE:

We’ve also set up a pledge at PledgeBank to raise interest in collaborating on the campaign site.