Anil Dash on Online Privacy
Spotted on eclecticism, this blog post by Anil is interesting because I did exactly what he proposes! I spent time and money to set up a personal weblog hosted on a website with my name in the URL so that I could have ‘first dibs’ on what people who Google me will find. It’s a novel concept for the 21st century, the idea of an individual having to create an online identity to have privacy.
Of course, with my identity known won’t that affect what I choose to publish in my blog? It’s probably going to take a lot more guts to write honest commentary in my posts (about certain people, for example) if I think people I know might read them. But a blogger that I know personally (4AM Ramblings) writes that he enjoys blogging because it’s his way of blowing off steam. And he wouldn’t be able to express himself honestly in his blog if he didn’t feel protected by anonymity.
