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Stephanie Booth lives in Lausanne, Switzerland with her cat Bagha.
She works as a freelance blogging consultant, and is basically interested in anything that has to do with people and the internet {insert appropriate buzzwords: "social software", "participatory media", "web 2.0"...}.
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This entry was written by Stephanie, posted on 5/16/2001 at 4:00 pm, filed under Blogosphere Interest. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
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A hoax, as we now know. Various info at various places that I won’t list here (available on request).
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[...] The blogmob is nothing new, of course. My first real encounter with the mob was in May 2001, when Kaycee Nicole Swenson died (or so it seemed) and somebody dared suggest she might not have existed. The mob was mainly on MetaFilter at that time, but there were very violent reactions towards the early proponents of the “hoax” hypothesis. Finally, it was demonstrated that Kaycee was indeed a hoax. This was also my first encounter with somebody who was sick and twisted enough to make up a fictional character, Kaycee, a cancer victim, and keep her alive online for over two years, mixing lies and reality to a point barely imaginable. I — and many others — fell for it. [...]