Net spreads football player's diary

Is there such a thing as a local newspaper any more?

Thanks to the Net, Manny Williams Miami Herald diary about what it was like to be recruited by colleges for their football teams quickly spread across the country.

"As many Americans were Googling stills of Janet Jackson's exposed breast at the Super Bowl last Sunday, Mr. Williams's experiences were already spreading like a virus," The Times reports. "They were sent by e-mail from fan to fan and posted on Web sites, and they eventually sluiced into the electronic white water that flows between friends' e-mail boxes during the long work day...."

After the Auburn diary ran, Manny Navarro of The Herald noticed that angry e-mail notes were coming in from all over the country. "'By the time we got to the Auburn entry, it was a national thing,'" he wrote. "Traffic on the high school sports page of Herald.com, The Miami Herald's Web site, increased sixfold, exceeding traffic even for news on the hometown National Football League team, the Miami Dolphins."

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