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April 29, 2005
Blogspotting on Blog Visibility
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Over at Blogspotting, the new Businessweek blog on blogging, Heather Green explores an insight from Mena Trott: "over time, people will get more control over who sees their blogs. They will be able to make different parts of their blog private, so that they're open only to certain people. This is already happening to some extent at LiveJournal, the service that Six Apart bought in January." The full socializing of social media waits for the full integration of the buddy list: being able to specifically label each blog entry with the specific circle (or circles) of buddies you want to be able to see it, up to and including the whole world. [Note: technologies like Traction Software already provide these sorts of access control -- it just hasn't shown up in Moveable Type or Typepad yet.]
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1. Drew on April 30, 2005 10:02 AM writes...
MindSay (http://www.mindsay.com) actually lets you have 3 groups of networked friends and family members, letting you choose which group you'd like to post to, also giving you the feature to make individual posts private.
Permalink to Comment2. jeneane on May 5, 2005 08:24 PM writes...
Like Paris Hilton and Fred Durst learned from the now infamous T-Mobile hackers, is anything on or transferred across the net private? As a company, I would not want to take on the legal ramifications of my customers' "private" accidentally going "public."
As a blogger, I operate under an assumption of risk, deal with it, and go from there. It's not such a bad thing to take a chance. Consequences can be less surprising and more rewarding than being led to believe you're speaking privately when a glitch can out you in a heartbeat.
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