How to become famous in blogosphere

Just the other day, Cheng mentioned about this case and I was hoping to look it up. The Star has it in the following link:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/8/29/focus/4603131&sec=focus

Last week, Google was forced to reveal the electronic identity of an anonymous blogger who had defamed an international cover girl online. While cyber victims welcome the move, some Internet users are outraged at the invasion of online privacy.

UNTIL recently, few people had heard of Liskula Cohen even though she has appeared on past covers of European Vogue and Elle.

Last week, the blonde Canadian-born model made the headlines in the US media and became a household name on the Internet and in the fashion world when she won a court case to compel Google to reveal the IP and e-mail addresses of an anonymous blogger who called her a “skank”.

Google initially refused to unmask the blogger, whom Cohen, 37, claimed defamed her by posting words like “skanky”, “ho”, and “whoring” beneath unflattering photographs of her. (The Urban Dictionary describes skank as a derogatory term implying trashiness or tackiness, lower-class status or promiscuity)...

Just like the beer-drinking Muslim girl in Malaysia who is supposed to be caned, one can become really well known without having to use any knowledge of marketing or web design skills. In her case, her picture and news was even published in The Wall Street Journal in USA and Financial Times in UK! Malaysia did not have to employ expensive Public Relations consultants to get worldwide attention. If she is a blogger, I can imagine the number of hits her blogsite would have received, just like the two models in the ‘skank’ case.

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