This post covers two areas: Who may be reading this blog, and what I should do about it.
I was at an occasion last night. There was a number of bloggers there. They blog about a subject that I am interested in, one that has come up only once or twice on this blog.
I’m extremely glad I went to said occasion for a number reasons that cannot be discussed on said blog. It’s going to create issues galore. All that being said, it would be extremely smart for me to let down my brown curly hair and write about the subject (which is how these people probably came to be bloggers in the first place, though I cannot say, since I do not know what they think beyond this one time I met these people and what they write.)
Ben Atlas and I have had some very interesting discussions and pointed discussions publicly about the reasons behind anonymity on the web and whether it is a good thing or a bad thing in general. I’ve definitely gotten a lot less anonymous. I definitely had a push to slowly be more myself in writing as myself. In the short term, I can definitely say that has been good and has been a maturing experience. However, and this is a big however, because I’m living in public, I can’t write and discuss certain topics that weigh heavily on my mind the way I should be. I’d like to think that like most people, I am a multifaceted person. The internet may force me to become much more focused on one facet. Or maybe that is because I’m vain 
.
I need some space to think about the other stuff, and where should that be?
I can tell you one thing- not here. Not the place. This place is fairly souped up. It has semantic tags courtsey of Zemanta. (Has anyone tried to purposely crack down and do a badly tagged semantic tag through say poor tagging in Delicious?) It makes sense to discuss my fairly too souped up life with my fairly too souped up group of ‘net tribe friends. (and yes, we are all way too souped up on tech in a crack cocaine kind of way 
)
Further, I actually look out for the tech that this group of bloggers is using (yes I was watching said guy in the corner pull out his blackberry and not his Iphone, Yes I saw that,and yes I made my mental note of that. Because Mary Meeker wants to called RIMM asses on my watch.)
So further, I want to discuss stuff with those people. Tech and society and art is not what I want to discuss. Other aspects of my life is. And I want that in private.
It’s not going to work here. I may need to break the blog into parts where there is a second private blog hosted elsewhere. In private and anonymously. So I can do some venting. Downgrading tech has its advantages to freedom, you know. I just need to think about if I am going to do that or not.
A message to the different y’alls:
Because I know a number of different sorts of people (and that is a good thing, may we all know a number of different sorts of people, it’s a very good thing to have lots of people to make you think, and I am very thankful to know many types of people.), I am not totally sure who is reading this. I am not totally sure of the reactions of those who read this.
Further, for those who care: The commenting system on this blog logs your comments in two different places, once locally on my server, and once elsewhere, with Disqus, since effectively the comments are a form of social networking as well.
There is a lot of power in those comments which deserve a post in and of itself.
However, it does mean that if you leave a comment, even if you leave it as Anonymous, (and that option is there) or leave it under a nickname that is unregistered, a bunch of things will happen:
- I can see your IP address.
- That comment will be added to the log of thousands? Millions? of socially networked comments on the main server. if it is a new name, even it is unregistered, it will have its own site, and you can claim and manage the comments later. There are pluses and minuses to doing so, but it also means that two nicknames can’t be used from one email address. Don’t leave a comment under an email address, webpage, whatever, that you feel uncomfortable being traced from. There are ways around it, namely toss-able email and Tor. But be aware that you are watched here more than usual, and that the web is clearly moving in this direction. Something to think about.
Talking to some Bloggers last night
This post covers two areas: Who may be reading this blog, and what I should do about it.
I was at an occasion last night. There was a number of bloggers there. They blog about a subject that I am interested in, one that has come up only once or twice on this blog.
I’m extremely glad I went to said occasion for a number reasons that cannot be discussed on said blog. It’s going to create issues galore. All that being said, it would be extremely smart for me to let down my brown curly hair and write about the subject (which is how these people probably came to be bloggers in the first place, though I cannot say, since I do not know what they think beyond this one time I met these people and what they write.)
Ben Atlas and I have had some very interesting discussions and pointed discussions publicly about the reasons behind anonymity on the web and whether it is a good thing or a bad thing in general. I’ve definitely gotten a lot less anonymous. I definitely had a push to slowly be more myself in writing as myself. In the short term, I can definitely say that has been good and has been a maturing experience. However, and this is a big however, because I’m living in public, I can’t write and discuss certain topics that weigh heavily on my mind the way I should be. I’d like to think that like most people, I am a multifaceted person. The internet may force me to become much more focused on one facet. Or maybe that is because I’m vain
.
I need some space to think about the other stuff, and where should that be?
I can tell you one thing- not here. Not the place. This place is fairly souped up. It has semantic tags courtsey of Zemanta. (Has anyone tried to purposely crack down and do a badly tagged semantic tag through say poor tagging in Delicious?) It makes sense to discuss my fairly too souped up life with my fairly too souped up group of ‘net tribe friends. (and yes, we are all way too souped up on tech in a crack cocaine kind of way
)
Further, I actually look out for the tech that this group of bloggers is using (yes I was watching said guy in the corner pull out his blackberry and not his Iphone, Yes I saw that,and yes I made my mental note of that. Because Mary Meeker wants to called RIMM asses on my watch.)
So further, I want to discuss stuff with those people. Tech and society and art is not what I want to discuss. Other aspects of my life is. And I want that in private.
It’s not going to work here. I may need to break the blog into parts where there is a second private blog hosted elsewhere. In private and anonymously. So I can do some venting. Downgrading tech has its advantages to freedom, you know. I just need to think about if I am going to do that or not.
A message to the different y’alls:
Because I know a number of different sorts of people (and that is a good thing, may we all know a number of different sorts of people, it’s a very good thing to have lots of people to make you think, and I am very thankful to know many types of people.), I am not totally sure who is reading this. I am not totally sure of the reactions of those who read this.
Further, for those who care: The commenting system on this blog logs your comments in two different places, once locally on my server, and once elsewhere, with Disqus, since effectively the comments are a form of social networking as well.
There is a lot of power in those comments which deserve a post in and of itself.
However, it does mean that if you leave a comment, even if you leave it as Anonymous, (and that option is there) or leave it under a nickname that is unregistered, a bunch of things will happen:
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