A Cautionary Tale on Blogging


	A Cautionary Tale on Blogging

misterboh

5-30-2008 11:52 AM

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blogging, gawker, emily gould, oversharing

misterboh says:

Emily Gould's piece has a good deal of bearing on anyone working in social media, if we make the mistake of gazing into the digital mirror too long and fal in love with the image of our online selves, forgetting who and what we are working for.

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door where people who are looking for you can check on you, compare notes with 
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