Bravery, Honesty or Stupidity?. [Russell Beattie Notebook]
Russ asks himself questions about how open he can be in his weblog.
The issue has already been discussed by Ray Ozzie in a post a few months ago, when he started weblogging.
Russ is too open, Ray very restrained.
I'm still trying to find the right balance, but that's not easy.
I guess it all has to do with your imaginary readership: when writing you always have some sort of internal representation of your readership, wether it is conscious or not.
With weblogs, this representation is problematic.
They are accessible right away to everyone, like a web page could you say.
Add to that the dynamic group forming begavior allowed by RSS syndication and the picture changes: the shape of your readership becomes much more dynamic.
Add to that Google and potentially /.
Evaluating who will read a specific post becomes problematic.
I need to dig this further.
I don't have this problem anyway: I don't know who reads my weblog ;-)
As for Russ: good luck finding the right balance, but don't become to corporate. i take a great deal of pleasure reading your ramblings because they have a fresh tone, even if I find sometimes that you go too far or are too vocal.
8:55:07 PM 
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