Do you think this blog should be private?
Do other friends of yours read this blog? Do your parents? What about...
your employers?
I would prefer this blog to be only accessible by the authors--password protected and not indexed by Google, etc. I'm not sure how comfortable I am having certain information on the 'Net--so easily discovered. But then again, maybe I should just take these certain things down so I don't have to worry. But we could all be a bit freer with our sharing if we know it will only be read by the authors.
Also, we could invite more people to be authors (and thus readers as well).
Like Marcel. I just invited her. If anyone objects to this union, speak now or forever hold your peace. But I like Marcel, so...
Should the blog be private? Weigh in, friends?
P.S. I was also thinking about a migration over to WordPress. It's got better software, but the real draw is password protection: i.e. instead of having only authors be able to read it, we could just throw a password box on the site when you visit, so we'd just give the password out to anyone we wanted. But not to employers, governments, or parents. We could bring the entire thing, posts and comments and all over.... The only drawbacks would be a) new domain name and b) everyone has to make a WordPress account (except for me, of course :) ).
your employers?
I would prefer this blog to be only accessible by the authors--password protected and not indexed by Google, etc. I'm not sure how comfortable I am having certain information on the 'Net--so easily discovered. But then again, maybe I should just take these certain things down so I don't have to worry. But we could all be a bit freer with our sharing if we know it will only be read by the authors.
Also, we could invite more people to be authors (and thus readers as well).
Like Marcel. I just invited her. If anyone objects to this union, speak now or forever hold your peace. But I like Marcel, so...
Should the blog be private? Weigh in, friends?
P.S. I was also thinking about a migration over to WordPress. It's got better software, but the real draw is password protection: i.e. instead of having only authors be able to read it, we could just throw a password box on the site when you visit, so we'd just give the password out to anyone we wanted. But not to employers, governments, or parents. We could bring the entire thing, posts and comments and all over.... The only drawbacks would be a) new domain name and b) everyone has to make a WordPress account (except for me, of course :) ).
posted by Sean at 16:36
3 Comments:
i'm against the password. as stated last night, if anyone has a problem with public viewing, feel free to remove what you are worried about.
paranoia will create the kind of society we fear. trust on the other hand...well hell it's worth a shot. i refer to another blog which juggles ideas of the universe: http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/the-law-of-attraction/
do we need a password to include others? how did we get on the blog before?
i dunno. i'm a secretive scorpio but i don't have a problem with the public seeing a limited (and not really advertised...or frequently stumbled upon) profile of who i portray myself as in word format. "they" don't scare me. and sometimes i like to share. with strangers.
if we hide and give up the free speech form of the web...well hell that's a whole other topic. but i feel as though that would be like giving in to the mundane.
i mean hell, look at each of us. you think the blog is what is going to give away our role in society?
sorry for the procrastination rant.
but i doubt anyone will read this...
xo
m
i read it megan and i wouldn't have expected a lesser rant coming from you. Well done. I say keep it public for the reasons put forth by chelsface and megan. Long live free speech. As with couchsurfing.com, sean, it is all about trust...
ok, ok... here's an alternative. one thing i dislike about the new blogger is that you have to have a gmail account to post. boo. so i propose we lock down this site with a password distributed to whomever you want, and create a _new_ blog on wordpress which would be public, but not searchable by engines such as google (this is a wordpress feature not available on blogger).
that way nobody would have to change or remove their posts, and we could all feel secure.
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