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Cyber Stalkers, Cyber Friends

Here is an ethics question for you?  Or, maybe it's etiquette. 

Should a person read another person's blog, if that reader has a queasy feeling that the blog writer would not want the reader to be visiting the blog?  If the reader asks himself or herself, "I wonder what that person is up to, he or she never shares any information with me?", is that a sign to the reader that it is not socially appropriate to be visiting that person's blog.  Or, is the convention that when you create a public space, you must create it for everyone, even if this ruins the vibe in the community you are trying to create. 

I think this must have been addressed somewhere on the world wide web. My guess is that this is the type of subject debated by bloggers at their meetings such as those scheduled via MeetUp.com.  I've skipped the past year's worth of meetings, but I still get their meeting notices. 

This concept of Cyber Stalkers has me thinking about the US Government and Blog Monitoring.  As we strive to make more rich and meaningful public venues, safe and therefore nurturing of growing intimacy in a world starved for actual close connection, how can we be both inclusive and also exclusive for the benefit of the group?  Is that how come yahoo chat groups were formed?  Is the government monitoring everyone's Yahoo chat groups?  Is this stifling your group intimacy or your sense of safety?

It's odd having missed the tec revolution. I don't understand the concepts behind basic software and web innovations.  Who explains this well on the web?   I would link here to relevant experts on the subject, but I don't know anyone. I'm asking questions outside my area of expertise. 

Can you point me in the right direction?

More Technology Idiocy

How's that for an elegant and meaningful post.  Still trying to "Tag and Claim" at Technorati, whatever that means, and however you do that. 

FYI-- The instructions could be 250% better, and that's coming from someone whose actually taken a class in how to draft the fine print you read on junk mail, bank literature and the 100,000 other forms you regulary cross in life and ignore. 

Technorati Profile

Don't Trust Me on Technology

I do believe that everything I said yesterday about Technorati might very well be wrong. See, I was probably too focused on the blog buffet and not enough on Robert Scoble at Saturday's Blog Business Summit. 

But get this....  here is the new skill I learned after about say, 2 or 3 hours of trying... If you want Technorati to know you exist and you blog on typepad, what you have to do is type the following into the trackback box to the lower right of your screen every time you write a post:  http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping.  Try not making an error as you type that bad boy. 

At Saturday's Blog Business Summit Molly Holzschlag spoke.  Molly was billed as second only to Robert Scoble in terms of world class blogging talent.  Her bottom line about blogging:  the community (aka world) must make ... (see I wanted to use all these terms you won't know unless you took the class) using and fully appreciating blogging more accessible to grandmothers and technologically illiterate folks of the world like me.  I'm sure she didn't mean offense by lumping grandmothers with the technologically illiterate.   Pinging and aggragating, RSSing and trackbacking should be intuitive and well explained everywhere you go in Blog Universe.  If you don't know these terms, her point is well made.

Boy Genius to Blogs, Robert Scoble, chimed in Saturday that coming soon you'll have RSSing on Windows.  I guess Firefox already does that now. 

But I digress so deeply into the forest where I have no footing or bearing that I will excuse myself.  My bottom line:  blogging is coming and the tools are only going to get better, so you won't have to type that big old long Technorati string site every time every time you post.