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"Nat Idle, a medical student turned journalist, sits in a San Francisco cafe when a woman puts a folded note on his table. Nat picks up the note, walks to the door to follow her, opens the note and reads: Get out of the Cafe, NOW! The cafe explodes." So begins Hooked by the Timesman who warns blogging can kill. [Matt Richtel]
"Blog Till They Drop" author no stranger to technophobia
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11:00 AM on Sun Apr 6 2008
By Jackson West
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Wasn't this a scene from some terrible John Travolta hacker movie?
If only blogging really did kill. Then I wouldn't have to worry about Scoble's ego inflating after he read that.
... and he also moderated one the previous churchill club events: Silicon Valley Fights Back Against the (Information) Monster it Created
[www.churchillclub.org]
What happens next? He gets to the door and gets handed a note that says "There are four orc guards with short swords facing you. What do you do?"
So the real premise here is that it's safe to blog as long as you stay in your mom's basement?
As bloggers, we know the dangers-- we just don't care. That's just how stupid and crazy and brilliant we are. When you put on your blogger uniform, you don't ask "what if something happens to me?"
Last Wednesday, I choked on Cap'n Crunch after reading a genius blog I had just entered into wordpress. That cereal is unnecessarily sharp and hurty.
[www.misanthropytoday.com]
@andyfox1979: It's only for the strong, kid. Go back to your rounded Trix until you can stand the pain without so much as an "OMG."
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