RSS feedEarlier this year I spoke about how much personal information people give out on their blogs, in most cases without realising it, or understanding the consequences.
Here’s a BBC News story about David Huffaker’s thesis study of 70 bloggers showing the amount of personal information being provided through blogs (via Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion). The story fails to mention that with archive.org and blog quoting, once the information’s posted, there’s no way to retract it.
Sounds like a nice web posting analysis tool to me, providing warnings and metrics on privacy at publication time. David’s already fleshed out part of the process in his paper.
With respect to personal blogging of the live journal kind, as the blogging populace start to realise the privacy issues with blogging, will we start to see a move away from personal factual blogging, and a sharp increase in fictional content, like John Howard’s blog, Beagle Diary and Ripley the Cat, and writing about other non-personal subject matter.
Update: Helps if you include the URLs behind the hyperlinks. Should work better now.
(Originally posted to Synop weblog)