Some Notes about Blog Audience

Talking about blog audience at Grace’s. These links didn’t come up explicitly, but remembered during the conversation.

• State of the Professional Blogosphere
• Suppressed, an alternative to private
• Adult blogger reaction to MySpace, Danah Boyd wrote about this, but I can’t find the post.
• “Professional Bloggers” who let their other interests leak into their blog.
  • Contrary to expert opinion.
• Categories/tags to manage posts.

Subject Matter expert on mySpace.

• Stalking
• Use stance - using mySpace to meet people considered dangerous.
• Everyone, in their community, has mySpace or Facebook accounts.
• Using it to keep in touch with a circle of friends.
• “You don’t think your parents are going to look at it.”
• Law Enforcement trolling mySpace to find ‘miscreants.’

Chris: the worst that happens in the real world, will happen online.

Do you need a separate blogging policy? Not really, it’s part of general communications policy.

Back in the day, we didn’t show our piercings and tattoos at work, is blogging like that?

Memoir, and memoir-izing events to distance yourself.

The “no blogging” light, when is it lit?

ETA Blogger adds returns... grrrr.