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The Things You Want To Keep....

  • May. 10th, 2008 at 11:52 PM
me

... are the ones that tend to get lost and the things you want to get lost are the ones that you can never seem to lose. Okay that's probably not the case but it sums up my discovery this week.

I've been following a blog/work of faction about a breakfast dj on a fictional radio station. The story ended recently and all bar the final two posts were removed at that time. Now I started reading half way through and was planning on reading from the start at one point and so was a bit sad that I wasn't going to get the chance. That was until I discovered that Google Reader saves all the posts from the blogs that you subscribe to. Cool for me, perhaps not so cool for the writer of the blog who is, I assume, trying to get a publishing deal just now.

It makes you realise that it's even more important to be careful about what you post online. A fellow blogger had, in the past, posted a few things that obviously reflected their anger about a situation and I'm sure it was a cathartic experience. It worried me though that it could, in the wrong hands, be used to cause trouble for the original poster. They've recently removed the posts but in light of my new discovery I'm questioning whether it's really possible to erase these things at all.  

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[info]minivempxxx wrote:
May. 11th, 2008 03:19 pm (UTC)
discovered that Google Reader saves all the posts from the blogs that you subscribe to.

Surely this would mean that indeed, only what you subscribe to can be seen by you, but not those who don't subscribe to it?
Sometimes I think, it's not just what you post online, it's who you allow to see it also that you have to be careful about.
[info]alimclaren wrote:
May. 11th, 2008 09:24 pm (UTC)
Yes, that's what I said :-)

I think you're right about being careful about who sees what you post. I practice extreme paranoia when blogging as I'm sure is obvious. Perhaps I'm a bit too controlling ;-)
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