Oh and the other month someone in the UK went into a video chatroom, which was apparently one specifically designed to be for people to hurl abuse at eachother. Only this bloke decided to hang himself, and some people in the virtual room tried to sstop him, others goaded him on, with one saying something about 'look he cant even do that properly'. Anyway he hung himself right there with his webcam on, and died before the emergecy services could get there. I imagine everyon who was in that chatroom is scarred by the experience.
Thats the most horrible thing Ive heard of happening on the net, and where the net was actually a proper part of the story, and the linking of things like Mondays tragedy to the net just seem extremely by comparison. Bloggers who see everything in terms of the blogosphere probably need to widen their world view bubble. NBC themselves called his package a 'multimedia manifesto' didnt they? I feel less inclined to use the word multimedia myself now, so I can see where people worried about the term videoblog being smeared by this tragedy are coming from. Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But I dont > want to go too far in suggesting videoblogging has never crossed paths > with death videos.
