Google’s adding new privacy features to Blogger: #
As others have suggested, the ability to control the audience of a blog will probably increase schools’ use of blogs. That control will also destroy some of the reason for creating a blog in the first place. Certainly, a limited public audience is better than no public audience when it comes to writing and learning. But I wonder how limited some of those "audiences" will be. #
#Google Inc. has released a new version of its Blogger service,
adding privacy settings that restrict readership to a predetermined
audience. #Users can choose to have blogs accessible to anyone or just to themselves. #
Or they can list the e-mail addresses of the people they want to let in. Those readers would need to register for a free Google
(nasdaq:
GOOG –
news
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people
) account – the same used for its Gmail and other services – and would sign in with their regular Google passwords. #
Hi Bud
Good point on audience and what privacy controls will do to how we perceive the world audience of blogs (as if …) when we write for our various spaces.
It will be interesting to see if there is a slow shift in our definitions of what a Blog is as time marches on (hell, it’s almost 2007!) and technology changes.
Happy Holidays
Kevin
Hello, Bud,
This is something I think we all go back and forth on —
If we look at blogging/writing in a rhetorical context, or as a relationship between writer/narrator/author < --> audience < --> content, then an awareness of audience is essential. However, even in a closed space (aka the walled garden), if a teacher devotes time to class reflection on the posts of their peers, it can s(t)imulate an audience response.
Because, is blogging about finding an audience, finding a voice, finding your subject matter, or a little bit about all three?