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Thursday, April 28, 2005

Forums Can Kill

This is a sad story of a man and online communities. According to the coroner he died of starvation. He was linked into to 15,250 other community members, many of whom he exchanged notes with daily. He also contributed to 375 blogs and was expected to start an online column about the impact of interactive communications on health, when he died.

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