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Kill Your Blog

Oversharing is over -- save it for your book deal

Former blog queen Emily Gould suggests the rest of us delete, unfollow, cancel, and block ourselves from the Web. This is notable chiefly because Gould's last big appearance in print was an excessively detailed confessional of her online misadventures for the New York Times Magazine. The social media age is complicated, she complains in a writeup of Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody for MIT's Tech Review. Someone stop us before we blog again! More »

1:00 PM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
668 views, 4 comments

Latest by Shadowlayer: So because her popularity peaked, nobody should use the same method she did? ¬_¬ more »

overcounts

Second Life's absentee population

CLAY SHIRKY — Second Life released a bunch of figures last Friday, including the cumulative number of users, as part of their "effort to drive toward complete transparency and openness", as they put it. I've been critical of Linden Lab's population figures in the past. And it turns out I was right, about all of it. More »

3:00 PM on Tue Feb 13 2007
By Chris Mohney
1,631 views, 8 comments

Latest by Randolf: Sigma, the problem is your business model can never grow on that model. You are making a hidden assumption more »