WXP News Dec 20 05
http://www.wxpnews.com/?id=207
EDITOR'S CORNER
Can Your Blog be used Against You?
Blogging is all the rage these days; it seems as if everybody who's anybody has one (or several). A blog, or Web log, functions as a high-tech version of a long-time tradition, the personal journal. It's a chronological record of one's thoughts, comments, opinions, or whatever else you want to write about that day. MSN, Google, Blogger.com and many other services provide free blogging space to anyone who wants to sign up.
Some blogs are information-oriented, such as the many tech blogs posted by IT professionals to share tips and how-to's about computer topics. Some are more editorial in nature, such as the many blogs that exist to promote the authors' political opinions and commentary. Others have more of a "dear diary" tone, relating intimate details of the authors' lives and feelings.
Some blogs are highly publicized. Celebrities such as Wil Wheaton of Star Trek fame, singer Barbra Streisand and columnist Dave Barry are high profile bloggers. But millions of "regular old people" also have blogs (estimates of the number of blogs online range from 10 million to 60 million or more world-wide). Note, however, that millions of blogs are started and then abandoned within weeks or months. The number of currently active blogs (those to which the author is posting regularly) is much lower.
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EDIT by secretdubai - article abridged and links converted, for easier reading ;)
21 December, 2005
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3 comments:
Informative & interesting.
Thanks!
Super article - I abridged it for copyright reasons, in case the orginal publishers object to a full c&p. And converted the links in the first para for easier clicking!
Interesting article and something I think about quite a lot. I often wonder about people that post everything and anything that enters their heads without thinking about who might actually be reading. Just last week, my friend read the blog of someone she was dating and found out he already had a girlfriend. He lied to her, but blogged it to the world.
More seriously, in the UAE, there are topics that I feel are really untouchable - sexuality, women's rights, Etisalat, etc. Not sure if I'm just being too paranoid or if I'm making a wise decision.
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