Employee_Blogging.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Pew Internet reports as of July 2006 there were 12 million American adults writing blogs and 37 percent of Internet users (about 57 million American adults) read blogs. The survey polled 7 012 adults, “which included 4 753 Internet users, 8% of whom are bloggers”. 37% of bloggers write about “my life and experiences”, 11% [...]
In Rebecca Blood’s Weblog Ethics, Blood proposes guidelines for the development of a personal blogging policy. It’s worth noting that these same policies could also be used as the spine for a corporate blogging policy, after all ethics are ethics. For the record, Blood’s proposed list includes: 1. Publish as fact only that which you [...]
In this research article Huberman, Adar, and Fine propose that individuals have a price or value on the data which they are willing to reveal, and this price is connected with the perceived desirability of the personal trait in the group to which they are seeking to reveal their information. They propose that their is [...]
Have only had a chance to skim read Blogging as Social Activity, or,Would You Let 900 Million People Read Your Diary?, however it will be worth coming back to for a more in depth look. It’s a detailed study on why people blog and covers some aspects about blogging and privacy.
Here’s a few notes on an article relating to privacy concerns and practices in blogging, with references at the bottom of the post. Ongoing authorship. People look for and expect a consistent author and voice of a blog. Archival/permanent nature of posts are exaggerated by RSS feeds which create broadcast copies of blog posts which [...]
I’m in the process of considering what I’ll write my next essay on, what will be the incisive thesis question. I’ve done some work on Twitter and why this (and by extension other micr-blogging platforms) are so important, especially to students in Australia, where the penetration of Twitter appears to be much less than in [...]
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