Chicken Little

by DH Spicy

Chicken Little If you ever find this post. I’m sorry I scared you off. Blogs have become such a way of communication…I stumbled on your blog and probably left you a comment. What ever the case, the following morning, you’re entire blog had disapeared! My search, to come across your blog was "DH" . As my blog in entitled Dear Husband.

I can only assume you didn’t think anybody was reading it. Sorry to have scared you off!

So many people out there using blogs as a diary. Don’t forget, depending on your configuration, anyone has access. There are ways, with some blogs to disable comments, disable RSS feeds etc. If you want it private, don’t blog it. Or if you don’t want to have to deal with comments, disable them.

If you want a diary, you may be looking for an alternative. Blogs, shouldn’t be the answer to a diary, unless you are writing it, in the form of a journal for everyone to read.

The above statement by your provider is not entirely correct. It is not personal. Online journal, Share your thoughts, photos etc is OK. Just not personal. I believe they mean it’s your own personal space. But it’s certainly not private by any means.

I read the provider’s options…

[quote] We do not believe in locking in our users. Since the get-go, we have always offered easy export options (via HTML or XML format) to all accounts to always leave the option to switch services open to our users. [/quote]

There’s of course lot’s more, but if you just start typing away, without looking at the configuration options, chances are you are going public.

Here’s a definition from webopedia.com:

[quote](n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author. (v.) To author a Web log.

Other forms: Blogger (a person who blogs). [/quote]

Here is another

[quote]Weblog A weblog, or *blog, is a frequently updated website consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first (see temporal ordering). Typically, weblogs are published by individuals and their style is personal and informal. Weblogs first appeared in the mid-1990s, becoming popular as simple and free publishing tools became available towards the turn of the century. Since anybody with a net connection can publish their own weblog, there is great variety in the quality, content, and ambition of weblogs, and a weblog may have anywhere from a handful to tens of thousands of daily readers. Examples of the *genre exist on a continuum from *confessional, online *diaries to logs tracking specific topics or activities through links and commentary. Though weblogs are primarily textual, experimentation with sound, *images, and videos has resulted in related genres such as photoblogs, videoblogs, and audioblogs (see intermediality; media and narrative). Most weblogs use links generously, allowing readers to follow conversations between weblogs by following links between entries on related topics. Readers may start at any point of a weblog, seeing the most recent entry first, or arriving at an older post via a search engine or a link from another site, often another weblog. Once at a weblog, readers can read on in various orders: chronologically, thematically, by following links between entries or by searching for keywords. Weblogs also generally include a blogroll, which is a list of links to other weblogs the author recommends. Many weblogs allow readers to enter their own comments to individual posts. Weblogs are serial and cumulative, and readers tend to read small amounts at a time, returning hours, days, or weeks later to read entries written since their last visit. This serial or episodic structure is similar to that found in *epistolary novels or *diaries, but unlike these a weblog is open-ended, finishing only when the writer tires of writing (see narrative structure). Many weblog entries are shaped as brief, independent narratives, and some are explicitly or implicitly fictional, though the standard genre expectation is non-fiction.[/quote]

I’m sure there are many chicken littles out there, So Beware.