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When Nadine Haobsh started her blog, jolieinnyc.com, last year, it was to amuse her friends with celebrity tales--what products they used, where they hung out, her opinions of them--mostly stuff she'd picked up at makeup-and hair-industry press events she was invited to as a beauty editor. Once Gawker (the snarky Web site mainly devoted to media gossip) caught wind of her site, its readership ballooned from 100 friends to more than 1,500 people per day--other editors, publicists, and random people from Boise, Idaho, Munich, and Tokyo.
An e-mail sent around "outing" her as the author caused Nadine to lose two jobs, several pounds, and her gossip-column cherry. ...
Source: HighBeam Research, How this blogger got busted: twenty-five-year-old Nadine Haobsh, a...