A quick and incomplete guide to Internet Blogging:
Filed Under (administrative) by APK on 24-07-2007
* Anyone can read what you post as public. Wanting them not to is just fucking silly. If you don’t want it to be read by anyone who owns a computer and feels like reading it then either don’t damn well post it or use some type of security.
* You never have to ask before you decide to read someone’s blog, subscribe to their RSS feeds, or anything of that sort. Again, if the posts are public then you are using a public resource. If, at some time, the thing you are reading goes non-public, then you are possibly out of luck. But while it is? It’s publicly available.
* If you post it, people will read it. If they read it, they will have opinions on it. If you allow them the resource to tell you what they think about it, it will be used. So why would you ever act surprised that someone disagrees with you? Are you infallible? Outside of a Pope, I don’t think anyone gets to claim that, and I don’t buy it from him either so you’re really shit out of luck. Hey, here’s an idea! If you want to present a forum where you shout ideas and no one is allowed to disagree with you? Don’t make it public!
Why is this hard?
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