As the Blog Turns
There is a soap opera component of personal blogs. Every day, readers come to learn more about their favorite blogger, and participate in the ongoing personal saga. Should Joe quit his job? Should Candy go on a second date with that dapper tax attorney?
Blog audiences loved following the real-life online romance between bloggers Will and Maria. Although the two lived far from each other, they found a special bond within the online community.
Readers sighed when they finally ran into each others arms. How romantic!
But then reality set in.
They stopped blogging. Readers were especially shocked when they visited Maria’s blog. They were redirected to another personal blog — that of Will’s wife, the wife of the man who left to be with Maria!
Will’s wife writes both passion and anger:
When originally stumbled across, the story that Maria & Will were presenting in their blogs seemed like a fairytale. A tale of starcrossed lovers, separated by geography and destined to be together.
However, like all fairytales, this story has a dark side, and it comes in the form of the devastated family left behind.
…Ask yourself how you would feel if a family member left a note on the kitchen table and walked out of your life, only for later evidence to reveal that he’d been carrying on a clandestine affair with somebody half a world away.
Is this a case of personal blogging getting a little too real?
NOTE: 7PM (EST) After getting two emails wondering how the wife got the lover’s personal blog to redirect to her own site, I began to wonder about the authenticity of this whole soap opera. Did Maria actually allow the site to be redirected to the wife? Does Blogspot even allow redirection? All of a sudden, like a twist in “All My Children,” the drama even gets more interesting. So, I have donned my Geraldo mustache and am now embarking on my own online investigation into this compelling story: “Soap Opera Post: True or False — Was Blogebrity Fooled?”
NOTE: 10:10PM (EST) A very important blogger informant — let’s just call him “Deep Blogroll” has confirmed that Maria’s site has been “hijacked” by someone close to “Bill” after he moved out to be with Maria. Enough said. Mustache off.
NOTE: THE NEXT MORNING My yahoo email account is busting out of its seams as tipsters send all sorts of info about this Brad and Angelina of the blogging world. You can learn a lot more at Alarming News, Bunniblog, and Joseph’s Space.
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on December 12, 2005 at 7:24 pm AJ wrote:
That is some awful, terrible, painful, fantastic stuff. My inner-voyeur is delighted!
on December 12, 2005 at 8:42 pm Nick Douglas wrote:
And Neil looks so cute in his Geraldo mustache.
on December 12, 2005 at 10:08 pm brando wrote:
ooh! ooh! wouldn’t that be cool if you went to prison for divulging the true name of your secret source? you know. if youse know what’s good for ya.
by the way, i didn’t understand your email. what’s ‘watergate’? is that some sort of website? i couldn’t find it on WIN. you know i’m generation gawker, right?
on December 12, 2005 at 10:48 pm Neil wrote:
Brando, you’re supposed to wait until you’re dead when your middle-aged son reveals you as the “source,” not five minutes after doing it. Doesn’t the “Gawker” generation have any patience — or is everyone just anxious to move from one post to the next?
on December 13, 2005 at 1:52 am -RM wrote:
Holy Moses! This is the stuff I live for! Great job Neil Rivera! :D!
on December 13, 2005 at 1:53 pm Karol wrote:
Ok, let’s go, now that you’ve linked to me I want to make ‘the list’. I didn’t care about being excluded before but now it’s like you’re mocking me.
on October 20, 2006 at 10:50 am maria wrote:
There was no kitchen table, by the way.