When anonymous blogging can kill?

March 3rd, 2008 § Leave a Comment

Here’s one for the debate on whether someone should blog anonymously. Unspun’s firmly in the camp that says you should have to cojones to put your name to your bitching. Others do not think so.

Where do the rest of you stand?

clipped from www.nytimes.com

Advertising blogs churn out some of the Web’s more scathing, and personal, vitriol. Last week, the bloggers absorbed some body blows of their own.


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Paul Tilley led major advertising campaigns at DDB Chicago.




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What responsibility do you think Web sites bear for the comments they host?

Visitors to AgencySpy and AdScam, two sharp-tongued blogs written by advertising industry insiders, posted comments blaming the sites for contributing to the suicide late last month of Paul Tilley, 40, the creative director of DDB Chicago.

In so doing, bloggers and their readers added another chapter in a long debate about how, or whether, to manage anonymous posts that seem aimed at shredding a person’s reputation.
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