Words, Seattle Public Library
I'm too private a person to let many private details leak out on my blog, but this story still amuses me.
This week, the potential of the Internet to expose and disgrace when marriages fall apart came into stark relief as Tricia Walsh Smith, who is being divorced by Philip Smith, a theater executive, put a video on YouTube announcing that they never had sex, and yet she found him hoarding Viagra, pornography and condoms.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Smith’s lawyer, David Aronson, called the video “appalling” and said: “Mr. Smith is a very private person. This is obviously embarrassing.”But in an era when more than one in 10 adult Internet users in the United States have blogs, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, many people are using the Web to tell their side of a marital saga. Despite the legal end of a marriage, the confessions can stretch toward eternity in a steady stream of enraged or despondent postings.
[Click to read more of When the Ex Blogs, the Dirtiest Laundry Is Aired - New York Times]
Blogs are changing the world, at least in many small and often frivolous ways.
Oh, and of course, there's always Corri Fetman's blog
