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	<title><![CDATA[Pseudonymity Slouches Toward Anti-Social Media]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-berry/pseudonymity-slouches-tow_b_56032.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p> <br />
My favorite business story today is Whole Oats CEO John Mackey "<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118418782959963745.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">pseudonymously</a>" bad mouthing Wild Oats in Web stock forums, presumably to lower the acquisition price for his company. While the serious CEO misbehavior is interesting -- and I assume at least unethical, if not illegal -- the deeper meaning is how the magic of pseudonymity threatens to make what we now call social media look more like anti-social media. Somewhere in the much-heralded "<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/Q&amp;A.html">wisdom of...</a></p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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