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Catching up on blog-conversation

Zephoria grouches about a-list bloggers being catty and self-serving and mean.

To which I respond in comments:

It's just gossip, world-readable.

Social networks that sustain conversation also harbor gossip, for good and for bad. For good-- models of behavior and thought to learn from the different lives of others (I hate to link, for fear of embarrassing people). And for bad -- cattiness, schadenfreude, one-upsmanship, and posing.
Seems to me that the ethics of blogging overlap mostly with the ethics of gossip.