I believe this is particularly important for our local politicians when they comment on the local blogs and as the internet becomes more important to local politics, with TDC now coming up with a protocol on blogging I thought I would add what I think is an important point.Unless you join blogger and sign on when you post then anyone can impersonate you, not so bad for ordinary members of the public but for politicians I would think this could be dammed right dangerous.
Frankly I would recommend that all of our local councillors get themselves a blogger id and comment on the main local blogs to the effect that they will only comment using their identity, so that the blog administrators know if someone is impersonating them.
I should also point out point out that anyone can obtain a blogger id for themselves and yet keep their identity confidential.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.