How to blog carefully?

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by anthonyn, May 21, 2007.

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    Blogs are like personal telephone calls crossed with newspapers. If you’ve blogged about something controversial, say a bad co-worker, chances are you’d want to keep things as anonymous as possible. Well, here are some tips:

    1)Use a pseudonym and don’t give away any identifying details. When you
    write about your workplace ( a popular choice), be sure not to give away
    telling details.

    2)Don’t post pictures of yourself. And don’t use pseudonyms that sound like
    the real names they are based on. Remember that almost any kind of
    personal information can give your identity away – you may be the only
    one at your workplace with a particular birthday or with a certain pet.

    3)Also, if you are concerned about your colleagues finding out about your
    blog, do not blog while you are at work. You could get in trouble for using
    company resources like an internet connection to maintain your blog, and it
    will be very hard for you to argue that the blog is a work related activity.

    4) Use Annonymising technologies
    There are a number of technical solutions for the blogger who wishes to
    remain anonymous. Invisiblog.com is a service that offers anonymous blog
    hosting for free. You may create a blog there with no real names
    attached. Even the people who run the service will not have access to
    your name. If you are worried that your blog hosting service may be
    logging your unique IP address and thus tracking what computer you’ve
    blogging from, you can route your internet traffic through what’s called and
    overlay network that hides your ip address. More importantantly, this
    makes it difficult for snoops on the internet to follow the path your data
    takes and trace it back to you.
     
    anthonyn, May 21, 2007 IP
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    Good catch Arpit! I just don't understand what the point of posting someone else's article on a forum is.
     
    bigp, May 21, 2007 IP
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    Sharing an interesting article is a good thing, but atleast one should give a proper credit for this.
     
    arpitagarwal82, May 21, 2007 IP